Spacewalking astronauts are conducting more battery work outside the International Space Station.
Spacewalking astronauts replace more station batteries
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Spacewalking astronauts install better station batteries
Spacewalking astronauts hustled through battery hookups outside the International Space Station on Friday in a major upgrade of the solar power grid.
NASA Is Offering $18,500 to Lie in Bed for 60 Days
If lying down is your idea of a good time, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have an $18,000 offer for you. NASA, in collaboration with the ESA and the German Aerospace Center, launched the Artificial Gravity Bed Study (AGBRESA) this week. The study will test the use of artificial gravity to prevent the… Continue reading NASA Is Offering $18,500 to Lie in Bed for 60 Days
Here’s a solar system being born
ALMA image of the dusty disk around the young star DM Tau. You can see 2 concentric rings, where planets may be forming. Image via ALMA. Japanese astronomers reported this month on their observations of the formation sites of planets around a young star resembling our sun. The star is DM Tau, located 470 light-years… Continue reading Here’s a solar system being born
NASA proposes mission to Neptune moon Triton
Neptune’s largest moon Triton as seen by Voyager 2 during its flyby in 1989. The south polar cap – with its nitrogen geysers – is in the bottom portion of this image and Triton’s famous “cantaloupe terrain” is at the top. Image via NASA/JPL/USGS. Over the past few decades, robotic missions to the outer solar… Continue reading NASA proposes mission to Neptune moon Triton
What happened before the Big Bang?
Artist’s concept showing the patterns of signals generated by primordial standard clocks in different theories of the primordial universe. Top: Big Bounce. Bottom: Inflation. Image via CfA. Can we get an inkling of what existed before our universe began? Some theories suggest that, before the Big Bang, whatever existed was contracting, rather than expanding, as… Continue reading What happened before the Big Bang?
Jupiter’s 700,000-year journey toward the sun
Artist’s concept of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. A group moves in front of the gas giant and a group follows behind. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech. According to new research from Lund University in Sweden, the planet Jupiter formed four times farther from the sun than its current orbit. Its migration inward through the solar system to its… Continue reading Jupiter’s 700,000-year journey toward the sun
Life on Mars? Study Claims Evidence of Mushrooms Growing on Red Planet
“Is there evidence of life on Mars? An international team of research scientists, in a just published monograph titled “Evidence of Life on Mars? –consisting of a scholarly review of nearly 200 peer reviewed scientific studies– answer this age old question with a resounding “yes.” And they’ve included pictures of Martian specimens, photographed by NASA,… Continue reading Life on Mars? Study Claims Evidence of Mushrooms Growing on Red Planet
What’s going on with Jupiter’s Red Spot?
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran. By Donna Pierce, Mississippi State University The Great Red Spot, a storm larger than the Earth and powerful enough to tear apart smaller storms that get drawn into it, is one of the most recognizable features in Jupiter’s atmosphere and the entire solar system. The counterclockwise-moving… Continue reading What’s going on with Jupiter’s Red Spot?
Acrux, brightest star in Southern Cross
Constellation Crux photo by Christopher J Picking in New Zealand. Acrux is at the bottom of the Cross. More information about this photo here. Used with permission Bluish Acrux, otherwise known as Alpha Crucis, is the brightest star in the constellation Crux the Southern Cross. It is the 13th brightest star in all the sky.… Continue reading Acrux, brightest star in Southern Cross