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Uncrewed Boeing Starliner Departs the Space Station

By |2024-09-07T12:09:06-04:00September 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station Sept. 6, for a landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5 for its first crewed flight, arriving at the space [...]

Quarter Moon and Sister Stars

By |2024-09-03T09:09:32-04:00September 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Nine days ago, two quite different sky icons were imaged rising together. Specifically, Earth's Moon shared the eastern sky with the sister stars of the Pleiades cluster, as viewed from Alberta, Canada. Astronomical images of the well-known Pleiades often show the star cluster's alluring blue reflection nebulas, but here they [...]

A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun

By |2024-09-02T09:09:35-04:00September 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why is there a triangle hovering over the Sun? Although the shape is unusual, the type of structure is not: it is part of an evolving solar prominence. Looping magnetic fields on the Sun channel the flow of energetic particles, sometimes holding glowing gaseous structures aloft for months. A prominence [...]

The Moon Dressed Like Saturn

By |2024-09-01T09:09:06-04:00September 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does Saturn appear so big? It doesn't -- what is pictured are foreground clouds on Earth crossing in front of the Moon. The Moon shows a slight crescent phase with most of its surface visible by reflected Earthlight, known as Da Vinci glow. The Sun directly illuminates the brightly [...]

IFN and the NGC 7771 Group

By |2024-08-31T09:09:12-04:00August 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Galaxies of the NGC 7771 Group are featured in this intriguing skyscape. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the constellation Pegasus, NGC 7771 is the large, edge-on spiral near center, about 75,000 light-years across, with two smaller galaxies below it. Large spiral NGC 7769 is seen face-on to the right. [...]

Tulip Nebula and Black Hole Cygnus X-1

By |2024-08-28T09:09:31-04:00August 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day When can you see a black hole, a tulip, and a swan all at once? At night -- if the timing is right, and if your telescope is pointed in the right direction. The complex and beautiful Tulip Nebula blossoms about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation of Cygnus the [...]

Perseid Meteors Over Inner Mongolia

By |2024-08-26T09:09:06-04:00August 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Did you see it? One of the more common questions during a meteor shower occurs because the time it takes for a meteor to flash is similar to the time it takes for a head to turn. Possibly, though, the glory of seeing bright meteors shoot across the sky -- [...]

Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus

By |2024-08-25T09:09:06-04:00August 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Do underground oceans vent through canyons on Saturn's moon Enceladus? Long features dubbed tiger stripes are known to be spewing ice from the moon's icy interior into space, creating a cloud of fine ice particles over the moon's South Pole and creating Saturn's mysterious E-ring. Evidence for this has come [...]

The Dark Tower in Scorpius

By |2024-08-22T09:09:09-04:00August 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnological constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, monstrous clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a [...]

Fermi’s 12-year All-Sky Gamma-ray Map

By |2024-08-21T09:09:06-04:00August 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Forget X-ray vision — imagine what you could see with gamma-ray vision! The featured all-sky map shows what the universe looks like to NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi sees light with energies about a billion times what the human eye can see, and the map combines 12 years of [...]

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