Evolution of the Moon Video
At roughly three minutes long, this animated video walks you through the evolution of the moon from its first formation 4.5 billion years ago, to…
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Cassini Changes Orbit, Saturn’s Rings Visible Again
Cassini’s orbit took the spacecraft out of Saturn’s equatorial plane in the spring of 2012, making face-on views of the rings possible again and allowing…
First Images From Project 1640
After six years of development, Project 1640 is underway and using new technology on the Palomar Observatory’s 200-inch Hale telescope near San Diego, California to…
Topographic Map of the Moon with “Walking On Air” and “A Narrated Tour of the Moon” Videos
Take a few minutes to enjoy this image of the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created and two of NASA’s most…
Hubble Captures Image of a Carbon Star
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of U Cam coughing out a spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core…
Mysterious Disappearance of Dust Ring Leaves Astronomers Searching for Solutions
First seen by the NASA Infrared Astronomical Satellite in 1983, the dusty disk around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652 has disappeared, leaving…
The Sun Celebrates Independence Day With Solar Flare
The Sun celebrated July 4, 2012, by sending out an M5.3 class solar flare from region AR1515, the same region that produced an M5.6 class…
Phobos May Provide Evidence of Life on Mars
Scientists estimated that several large impact events on Mars could have launched significant amounts of Martian material into space, leading them to believe that if…
In McNeil’s Nebula, Protostar V1647 Ori Flaunts its X-ray Spots
Located about 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion, protostar V1647 Ori gave astronomers the first direct evidence that a protostar surges in X-ray activity…
Herbig-Haro 110, A Geyser of Hot Gas Flowing from a Newborn Star
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star. Although Herbig–Haro (HH) objects…
Flame Nebula Burns Bright in New WISE Image
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer’s four infrared bands, scientists have released a new image showing a vast cloud of gas and dust…
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to Study Portals in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Set to launch in 2014, NASA is planning the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to study X-points or electron diffusion regions, places where the magnetic field of…
New Light Shed on the Origins of Extreme Space Storms
Based on data from the Hinode satellite, a newly published study provides the first evidence of plasma upflows traveling at around 20 km per second…
Ready for Launch, NASA’s SUMI Rocket to Study the Sun’s Magnetic Fields
NASA’s SUMI rocket mission is set to launch this week from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, testing the technologies that have been developed…
Possibly the Fastest Moving Pulsar Ever Detected – Traveling at 6 Million MPH
Using three different telescopes, scientists found evidence of a pulsar moving at a speed between 5.4 million and 6.5 million miles per hour at a…
Near Miss Asteroid – An Opportunity To Test a Rapid Response Program
As an international team of astronomers continues to monitor the skies for approaching asteroids, the recent approach of a 23-foot-wide asteroid gave scientists an opportunity…
A Vapor of Stars from Galaxy DDO 82
A new image made up of exposures taken in visible and infrared light by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows galaxy DDO 82, which is…
Cassini Data Reveals Likely Subsurface Ocean on Titan
By using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure variations in the gravitational pull of Titan, researchers were able to determine Titan’s internal structure, finding…