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Pink Floyd and Coldplay Go to Space
Two great music videos published this week feature incredible imagery from space. Above, Pink Floyd released an 20th anniversary video…
Dramatic Timelapse Shows Develpment of Supercell “Mothership” Storm Cloud in Wyoming
Yikes! The Mothership has returned to Wyoming a la "Close Encounters of the Third Kind!" Yesterday a gigantic storm cloud…
If Pigs Could Fly – A Quick Guide to Solar Halos and Other Curiosities
Call it a porcine occultation. It took nearly a year but I finally got help from the ornamental pig in…
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Assembling and Launching Boeing’s CST-100 Private Space Taxi – One on One Interview with Chris Ferguson, Last Shuttle Commander; Part 2
Boeing CST-100 manned space capsule in free flight in low Earth orbit will transport astronaut crews to the International Space…
Earth’s Lightning Ramps Up With The Solar Wind: Study
As the northern hemisphere enters the hazy days of summer, thunderstorms will freckle many of our nights and days. What…
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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to Provide 1st 3-D View of Earth’s Magnetic Reconnection Process – Cleanroom visit with Bolden
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with the agency’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, mission personnel, Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese and…
NASA West Antarctic Ice Sheet Findings: Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable
It’s a key piece of the climate change puzzle. For years, researchers have been eyeing the stability of the Western…
Star Trail Photo Hints at Hidden Polestars
A week ago I made a 45-minute time exposure of the southern sky featuring the planet Mars. As the Earth…
The Newest ‘Earthrise’ Image, Courtesy of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
That’s Earth. That’s us. Way off in the distance as a fairly small, blue and swirly white sphere. This is…
Earth From Space: The Moon Over Mexico
Happy Cinco de Mayo! This beautiful image of Earth from Space was taken earlier this year, but today is a…