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Saturday Space Sight: Vortex and Rings
The Cassini spacecraft captures three magnificent sights at once: Saturn’s north polar vortex and hexagon along with its expansive rings. The hexagon, which is wider than two Earths, owes its...
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Saturday Space Sight: NASA’s Plans to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet. An artist...
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Saturday Space Sight: Flying Through an Aurora
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst posted this photograph taken from the International Space Station to social media on Aug. 29, 2014, writing, “words can’t describe how it feels flying...
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Saturday Space Sight: The Odd Trio
The Cassini spacecraft captures a rare family photo of three of Saturn’s moons that couldn’t be more different from each other! As the largest of the three, Tethys (image center) is round and has a...
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Saturday Space Sight: Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets
The four images that make up this montage of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko were taken on Sept. 26, 2014 by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. At the time, Rosetta was about 16 miles (26...
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Saturday Space Sight: Turquoise-Tinted Plumes
The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous strands reaching out into the surroundings. However, this is no ocean....
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Saturday Space Sight: Revisiting the Pillars of Creation
Although NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called “Pillars of Creation.” The...
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NRL Astrophysicist Explores Star Formation in Orion’s Belt
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) astrophysicist Dr. T.L. Wilson is part of a multi-national research team that has discovered an outburst in the infrared from a deeply embedded protostar. The...
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Saturday Space Sight: Hubble Spots Dense Star Cluster
By European Space Agency This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky Way. It is located about 25,000 light-years from Earth in...
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Hubble Finds a Little Gem
European Space Agency An image of NGC 6818, known as Little Gem Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: by Judy Schmidt This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known...
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