Loading ...Repent, sinners! SATAN EXISTS! And his evil eye is looking at you from space! I mean, if there is an Eye of God* in space, there has to be an Eye of Satan in a permanent staring contest, right? At least, it looks like a really evil eye to me. It’s a photo of the [...]
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Despite the hoopla surrounding the date Dec. 21, 2012, the world is not at risk of coming to a halt, NASA says. Aside from that date marking next year’s winter solstice, the longest night of that year, nothing else interesting is expected. All in all, “sleep well on Dec. 21 of next year,” said astronomer [...]
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And you thought lightning strikes were rare. A defunct NASA satellite is set to plunge to Earth, with a 1-in-3,200 chance that someone could get hurt, according to the space agency. That has many wondering: What’s it like to get hit with a piece of space junk? Lottie Williams — perhaps the only person [...]
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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden (left) and Stennis Space Center Director Patrick Scheuermann view a test firing of the first Aerojet AJ26 flight engine. Once flight acceptance is achieved, the engine will power the first stage of Orbital’s Taurus II space launch vehicle on commercial cargo missions to the International Space Station. NASA has partnered with [...]
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Astronomers have pushed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object’s light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is approximately 13.7 billion [...]
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Alien worlds beckon to us Earthlings today, promising visions of a sister planet to our own orbiting a nearby star. NASA’s Kepler space telescope team this month unveiled the first indisputable detection of a rocky planet spotted in another star’s solar system. The find lifted hopes that planets with rocky cores like Earth fill many [...]
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This Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 1275 reveals the fine, thread-like filamentary structures in the gas surrounding the galaxy. The red filaments are composed of cool gas being suspended by a magnetic field, and are surrounded by the 100-million-degree Fahrenheit hot gas in the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster. The filaments are [...]
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Wispy clouds are illuminated by a bright quarter moon behind the tail of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, flying observatory during telescope characterization testing in 2008. SOFIA will complement the Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel and James Webb space telescopes and major Earth-based telescopes. The mission, a joint program by NASA and DLR Deutsches [...]
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An oblong iceberg roughly as big as Rhode Island called B-09B (center right in this image) collided with the edge of the Mertz Glacier in eastern Antarctica this month breaking away a new iceberg (top left) that is nearly as large at B-09B. This image from Feb. 20, 2010, is one of a series of [...]
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