HiRISE Watches Curiosity Journey Across the Clay Unit No ownership claimed on image - Credit NASA / JPL https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/
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A Glimpse of a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface | NASA
Discovered in 2018 by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) mission, planet LHS 3844b is located 48.6 light-years from Earth and has a radius 1.3 times that of Earth. It orbits a small, cool type of star called an M dwarf - especially noteworthy because, as the most common and long-lived type of star in the Milky Way galaxy, … Continue reading A Glimpse of a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface | NASA
Replacing the Space Station’s Solar Array Batteries
After completing the first of 10 spacewalks to upgrade the station, astronaut Christina Koch wrote: "The great @Space_Station battery swap series of spacewalks is underway! A joy & privilege working with @AstroDrewMorgan outside, @astro_luca as the lead for suits & airlock, @Astro_Jessica as robotic arm operator, & the incredible teams in Houston. 3 batteries complete, 9 to go!" Image Credit: NASA/Christina Koch
Astronaut Nick Hague Soaks Up Views of Earth | NASA
As he prepares to conclude his stay aboard the orbiting laboratory this week, astronaut Nick Hague shared this photo saying: "Today is my last Monday living on this orbiting laboratory and I’m soaking up my final views. The @Space_Station is truly an engineering marvel. #MondayMotivation." Hague will return to Earth after a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. He and Expedition 60 and … Continue reading Astronaut Nick Hague Soaks Up Views of Earth | NASA
Viewing a Launch From Above | NASA
From aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 60 astronaut Christina Koch photographed the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft ascending into space after its launch from Kazakhstan on Wednesday, September 25, 2019. After a four-orbit, six-hour journey, the Soyuz docked to the Space Station with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the … Continue reading Viewing a Launch From Above | NASA
Top Five Technologies Needed for a Spacecraft to Survive Deep Space | NASA
When a spacecraft built for humans ventures into deep space, it requires an array of features to keep it and a crew inside safe. Both distance and duration demand that spacecraft must have systems that can reliably operate far from home, be capable of keeping astronauts alive in case of emergencies and still be light … Continue reading Top Five Technologies Needed for a Spacecraft to Survive Deep Space | NASA
Hubble’s 5 Weirdest Black Hole Discoveries
From absorbing whole dwarf galaxies to containing the mass of a billion stars – black holes are a cosmic force to be reckoned with. This #BlackHoleWeek NASA is bringing us Hubble Space Telescope's 5 weirdest black hole discoveries https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/187921705234/hubbles-5-weirdest-black-hole-discoveries?linkId=74206098 No ownership claimed on material - Credit NASA
Stuck on the Rings
Tethys appears to be stuck to Saturn's A and F rings from this perspective.(No ownership claimed on image) Source: Stuck on the Rings
What it takes to travel the stars!
This chart I found on Pinterest shows the gargantuan effort needed to travel between the stars. What do you think? https://pin.it/ncv3jnzwuncwjh
30 Years Ago: Voyager 2’s Historic Neptune Flyby | NASA
Neptune as taken from NASA's Voyager 2 Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system's eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager mission's Grand Tour of the solar system's four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune … Continue reading 30 Years Ago: Voyager 2’s Historic Neptune Flyby | NASA
50 Years Ago: One Small Step, One Giant Leap | NASA
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins awoke to start their fifth day in space at the end of their ninth revolution around the Moon. In Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Eugene F. Kranz’s White Team of controllers arrived on … Continue reading 50 Years Ago: One Small Step, One Giant Leap | NASA
Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn’t Exist | NASA
As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. The conundrum is that the disk shouldn't be there, based on current … Continue reading Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn’t Exist | NASA
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