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Fermi Provides New Insights on Dark Matter
http://youtu.be/i5ucytz2C7I There’s more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this […]
We Are the Explorers
February 29, 2012
Why do we explore? Simply put, it is part of who we are, and it is something we have done throughout our history. In NASA’s new video, “We Are the Explorers,” we take a look at that tradition of reaching for things just beyond our grasp and how it is helping us lay the foundation […]
NASA’s Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole
February 21, 2012
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of black hole behaves. The record-breaking wind is moving about 20 million mph, or about 3 percent of the speed of light. This […]
Super Solar Storm
January 28, 2012
The biggest storm on the sun in years erupted on January 22 with a huge solar flare, an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons that, according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, caused the strongest solar radiation storm since September 2005. Also, Global Temperatures remain warm, […]
Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice
January 26, 2012
Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of years, according to the first published models of Vesta’s average global temperatures and illumination by the sun. “Near the […]
Ebb and Flow: Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft
January 17, 2012
PASADENA, Calif. — Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont. Their winning entry, “Ebb and Flow,” was selected as part of a nationwide school contest that began in October 2011. The names were submitted by fourth […]
The largest galaxy cluster in early universe
January 10, 2012
An exceptional galaxy cluster, the largest seen in the distant universe, has been found using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation-funded Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile. Officially known as ACT-CL J0102-4915, the galaxy cluster has been nicknamed “El Gordo” (“the big one” or “the fat one” in Spanish) by the researchers […]
NORAD and Satellite Technology Help Santa Deliver
December 24, 2011
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce Census Bureau, the world’s population is approximately 7 billion (6,979,978,073+) people. Santa Claus has had to adapt over the years to having less and less time to deliver gifts to more people. To better assure prompt deliveries and safe flights, higher technology systems are increasingly being used by […]
NASA Snow Cover Maps
December 22, 2011
NASA has released a video that highlights where snow graced the Earth every month for over the past ten years. http://youtu.be/WfHvujaE2hI Read more: dailygalaxy.com
Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars
December 22, 2011
This image shows one of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dating back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy’s light took 12.9 billion years to reach us. The galaxy was discovered and confirmed using the Subaru telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, respectively, both located atop […]
NASA’s Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge
December 5, 2011
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory. In it, the wind of charged particles streaming out from our sun has calmed, our solar system’s […]
New NASA rover to scout for life’s habitats on Mars
November 25, 2011
Watch live streaming video from spaceflightnow at livestream.com http://youtu.be/P4boyXQuUIw Mars rover Curiosity poised for Nasa’s ‘most ambitious’ mission to planet The rover, part of the Mars Science Laboratory, will probe the Red Planet’s secrets with a wide array of scientific instruments Richard Luscombe A vehicle the size of a small 4×4,is about to embark on a one-way 350m-mile trip […]
A new chapter for NASA
November 13, 2011
NASA Hitches a Ride on a Russian Craft, and Begins a New Dependent Phase A Russian Soyuz rocket with three astronauts — two Russians, one American — is set to lift off from Kazakhstan on Monday morning, ferrying the men to the International Space Station. Ordinarily, the launching of a Soyuz, Russia’s workhorse rocket for […]
Animation: test flight of the Orion spacecraft
November 9, 2011
Exploration Flight Test-1 Animation This animation depicts the proposed test flight of the Orion spacecraft in 2014. During the test, which is called Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), Orion will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., perform two orbits, reaching an altitude higher than any achieved by a spacecraft intended for human use since 1973, and then […]
Video: The Future is Coming
November 8, 2011
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is guiding development of several spacecraft and rockets that are expected to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by the middle of the decade. Based at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the innovative program calls for a close partnership with private companies that allows industry to make advances in […]
Fermi Finds Youthful Pulsar Among Ancient Stars
November 3, 2011
An international team of scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form. At the same time, another team has located nine new gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi data, using improved analytical techniques http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLck55rLyE In three years, NASA’s Fermi has detected […]
NPP Launch
October 28, 2011
NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket at 5:48 a.m. EDT today, on a mission to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. http://youtu.be/cg9Z0-WEQIQ NPP is the first step for NASA in building the next generation Earth observing satellite system. The EOS […]
Not Such a Stretch to Reach for the Stars
October 19, 2011
A starship without an engine? It may seem a fantastical notion, but hardly more so than the idea of building a starship of any kind, especially with NASA’s future uncertain at best. Yet here in Orlando, not far from the launching site of the space program’s most triumphant achievements, the government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects […]
Nikolaos Paschalidis: Miniaturized Details and the Big Picture
October 5, 2011
Nikolaos Paschalidis has been reading a lot lately. He has read reports and read proposals, as he tries to get a handle on the multitude of projects, technological innovations, and engineering feats being herded to development by some 300 NASA heliophysics scientists and engineers. Coordinating the technology advancement for the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA’s […]
WISE Revises Numbers of Asteroids Near Earth
September 29, 2011
This chart shows how data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has led to revisions in the estimated population of near-Earth asteroids. The infrared-sensing telescope performed the most accurate survey to date of a slice of this population as part of project called NEOWISE. This allowed the science team to make new estimates […]
UARS falling
September 24, 2011
UARS Updates NASA’s UARS Re-enters Earth’s Atmosphere NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. Sept. 24, 20 years and nine days after its launch on a 14-year mission that produced some of the first long-term records of chemicals in the atmosphere. […]
Delta II Launches GRAIL Spacecraft
September 10, 2011
NASA’s Twin GRAIL spacecraft head for their lunar mission aboard a Delta II rocket. http://youtu.be/XHkfJIIiKr8
NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views Of Apollo Landing Sites
September 6, 2011
http://youtu.be/mDc7A50jY2o NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface. At the Apollo 17 site, the tracks laid down by the lunar rover are clearly […]
Evidence for Mars floods all dried up?
August 23, 2011
Lava, not water, may have carved the biggest channels on Mars. Ever since NASA’s Mariner 9 spacecraft beamed back the first images of the channels in the 1970s, most people have assumed they were created by massive floods. But David Leverington of Texas Tech University in Lubbock says flowing water would have left behind much more sediment […]
Watch Final Shuttle Landing Live
July 21, 2011
Nasa’s shuttle programme comes to an end as Kennedy Space Centre awaits Atlantis’ landing ……. (update) Space shuttle Atlantis has landed in Florida. NASA shuttle program is now over with Atlantis’ successful space station resupply mission….
NASA Releases New Pioneer Anomaly Analysis
July 20, 2011
The mysterious force acting on the Pioneer spacecraft seems to be falling exponentially. That’s a strong clue that on-board heat is to blame, says NASA In the early 1970s, NASA sent two spacecraft on a roller coaster ride towards the outer Solar System. Pioneer 10 and 11 travelled past Jupiter (and Saturn in Pioneer 11′s […]
Asteroid Bound: Animated Look at NASA’s New Mission
July 18, 2011
NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid’s Orbit on July 15
July 14, 2011
On July 15, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study Vesta for one year, and observations will help scientists understand the earliest chapter […]
NASA’s Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation
July 6, 2011
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplanet’s atmosphere 1,000 light-years away. “For 21 years Hubble has been the premier space science observatory, astounding us with deeply […]
NASA’s Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas
July 1, 2011
Galaxies Near and Far Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in the distant, early universe continuously ingested their star-making fuel over long periods of time. This goes against previous theories that the galaxies devoured […]
Sunrise View of Tycho Crater’s Peak
June 30, 2011
On June 10, 2011, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft angled its orbit 65° to the west, allowing the LRO Camera NACs to capture a dramatic sunrise view of Tycho crater. A very popular target with amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.37°S, 348.68°E, and is about 51 miles (82 km) in diameter. The summit of […]
Join NASA in Measuring an Asteroid
June 28, 2011
On the evening of July 3 at 11:05:30 p.m. EDT — at a distance of 280 millon miles into space that poses no threat to Earth – 52 Europa will pass in front of star TYC 0292-00339-1 in the constellation Virgo. The asteroid will eclipse the star’s light for 17.9 seconds in a process known as occultation. Here […]
NASA’s Swift Sees Star Gobbled Up by Black Hole
June 18, 2011
On March 28, NASA’s Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope discovered a series of powerful X-ray blasts coming from a source in the constellation Draco. Astronomers around the world studied the unusual explosion, which is now known as Sw 1644+57. More than two months later, and with high-energy X-rays still coming from the spot, astronomers are convinced […]
NASA’s Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe
June 15, 2011
Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggressively than previously thought, in tandem with the growth of their host galaxies. By pointing Chandra at […]
A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
June 9, 2011
NASA’s Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system. Mission scientists say the probes have just sent back some very big news indeed. It’s bubbly out there. […]
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