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Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through the Milky Way are revealed in a new image from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite. Analyzing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape our galaxy and trigger star formation.
A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space travel.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - A Purdue University graduate is starring in a truly out-of-this-world IMAX movie filmed in Earth orbit during a daring space shuttle mission.
NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.In an effort to excite young people about space and NASA's missions, the agency has launched the online Space ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has picked out the final resting place of the Soviet Lunokhod 2 rover after a Canadian researcher followed the 37 year old tire tracks captured in recently released moon photos.
Nasa's famous space telescope was carried by shuttle into Earth's orbit 20 years ago next month, and within weeks of that launch, it was discovered that this huge and hugely expensive bastard had a flawed optical system—Hubble was a real lemon. Still, it took some amazing pictures. If there...
ogre7299 recommends an announcement out of Caltech on a milestone for HIFI, the Herschel Space Observatory's Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared. "The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potential life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion Nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. ... This detailed-spectrum, obtained with the Heterodyne ...
Image Caption: New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Image credit: NASA/JPL/ESO and NASA/ESA/GSFC
ESA released new images of Mars' moon Phobos, taken during the Mars Express March 7, 2010 flyby, showing the rocky moon in exquisite detail and also in 3-D. Mars Express orbits the Red Planet in a highly elliptical, polar orbit that brings it close to Phobos every five months, and it is the only [...]
WKU is participating a project that will study the early history of the universe using the Hubble space telescope.
BERNARDS — Retired NASA astronaut Brian Duffy will demonstrate the specially designed "shuttle putter" secretly stowed on board during a 1996 space voyage in a presentation Thursday at the U.S. Golf Association Museum and Arnold Parlmer Center for Golf History.
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