After eight years and repeated photographs of a nearby star in hopes of finding planets, University of California, Berkeley, astronomer Paul Kalas finally has his prize: the first visible-light snapshots of a planet outside our solar system.
NASA tested the parachutes for the recovery system on its Orion crew exploration vehicle above the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona on July 31. The test proved unsuccessful when a test set-up parachute failed...
Powerful computers have enabled a wealth of new technologies that have resulted in the construction of giant telescopes, perched on high mountaintops with monolithic or segmented mirrors as large as swimming pools.
The Chandrayaan spacecraft is India's first mission to the moon. This video provides an excellent overview of the mission. Produced by the European Space Agency.
My SpaceRef business partner was the co-instigator of this really cool project. This video shows some of the refurbished machinery used to restore the images. See SpaceRef.com for press release and images.
Plankton is among the most important marine life forms, but excessive blooms can lead to phenomena known as dead zones, where water at the bottom of the ocean becomes depleted of oxygen and proves lethal for marine organisms. This short video explores this unique phenomenon, and examines how human activity in summer months can contribute to plankton blooms that cause dead zones.
NASA 360 Episode 5 features the Hubble Space Telescope, the Earth-sun relationship, NASA oceanography and their connections to NASA Mars exploration missions
NASA 360 Episode 5 features the Hubble Space Telescope, the Earth-sun relationship, NASA oceanography and their connections to NASA Mars exploration missions.
It's been 10 years since NASA last considered inflatable structures. Back then it was for the International Space Station. Political pressure axed the initiative. Now however inflatable structures look like they could be useful for the moon and Mars. It's about time this technology got a second look.
NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S.
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