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A spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope’s newly-installed Wide Field Camera 3, showing a birthplace of stars in the nearby galaxy M83: Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel. (Hat tip: Phil Plait, who has interesting commentary on how this image was generated, and what ...
Science, Space, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Photography, Galaxies, Universe
A race between gamma rays across 7.3 billion years of time and space has resulted in a virtual tie, confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity once again. The race was between gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths spit in a burst from an exploding star when the universe was ...
Science, Space, Astronomy, Relativity, Albert Einstein, Speed of Light
I’m an unabashed fan of Carl Sagan. I’ve read all his books, some of them several times, and they’ve enriched my life more than I can express. This video is delightful and sad at the same time — a celebration of one of humanity’s great original intellects. [Video]
Newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys give us a look at two galaxies that are losing it. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) allows astronomers to study an interesting and important phenomenon called ram pressure stripping that is so powerful, it is ...
Science, Space, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Photography, Galaxies, Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope gets all the publicity, but there’s another orbiting telescope that sees into the X-ray spectrum and is also sending back mind-bending images from the depths of space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The latest photograph from Chandra shows the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and ...
Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Astronomy, Milky Way, black hole
The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, and sending back photographs of the universe that can only be described with that overworked word “awesome:” Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe. [Video]
Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy, Galaxies, nebulae, Video
A fascinating discovery, from the tail of a comet 242 million miles away from Earth: Building block of life found on comet. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory ...
Science, Space, NASA, Comet, Astronomy, origin of life, Space Exploration
Here’s an excellent high definition video on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field images, with a 3D simulation that flies you through Hubble’s most awe-inspiring photographs. The Deep Field images were created by pointing the Hubble Space Telescope for several days at a tiny patch of apparently empty sky — “empty” ...
Science, Space, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Photography, Deep Field, Galaxies, Universe
By the way, if you’re into rocks and bits of sand that speed through the solar system for billions of years, then burn up in fiery streaks as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, tonight’s your night. The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show ...
Ten years ago APOD ran this photograph, a view from the Mir Space Station of the Moon’s shadow passing over the Earth during a total solar eclipse. (Hat tip: Racer X.)
Science, Solar Eclipse, Photography, Mir Space Station, Space, Space Exploration
From the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, this infrared image shows the impact site where something huge slammed into Jupiter sometime in the last few days, with its relative size compared to Earth.
Space, Astronomy, Jupiter, Asteroid Impact, Keck Observatory, Hawaii
Using his backyard telescope, Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered that the planet Jupiter was recently struck by something very large — leaving an Earth-sized impact site: New NASA Images Indicate Object Hits Jupiter. Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back pictures of the landing sites of five Apollo moon missions; after 40 years in the airless environment, you can still see the tracks of the Apollo 14 astronauts, where they walked through the lunar dust to set up some scientific instruments: LRO Sees ...
NASA, Apollo, Moon Landing, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Space, Space Exploration
The Hubble Space Telescope isn’t the only orbiting observatory sending back incredible images from the depths of space; here’s a picture generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory combined with optical imagery: a group of colliding galaxies known as “Stephan’s Quintet.” Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/E. O’Sullivan Optical: Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope/Coelum This beautiful image ...
Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Astronomy, Galaxies
The first crystal clear images from the high resolution cameras on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been released, showing an area near the Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds): NASA - LRO’s First Moon Images.
Science, Space, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Moon, NASA, Photography
An incredible 3D image captured by an astronaut in the International Space Station as it passed over the Sarychev Peak volcanic eruption on June 12, 2009. [Video] Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048 was acquired on June 12, 2009, with a Nikon D2XS digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens, and ...
Volcano Monitoring, Volcanic Eruption, Space, International Space Station, ISS, Photography
The $591 million Kepler mission launched successfully last night, and will soon begin looking for Earth-like planets in other solar systems. The Delta II rocket carrying the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft lifted off on time at 10:49 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...
SpaceX had a big success yesterday, launching the very first privately-funded rocket to enter Earth orbit. [Video]
Here are some fantastic high resolution photos of preparations for the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for October 8th: Preparing to rescue Hubble.
LGF, Science, Space, Space Shuttle, Atlantis, Hubble Space Telescope
Revealed in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope: gigantic gaseous filaments up to 20,000 light years long, shaped by the magnetic field of a super-massive black hole in the galaxy NGC 1275. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A.C. Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)
LGF, Space, Science, Hubble Space Telescope, black hole, Astronomy
From APOD, this stunning false-color composite picture combines a Hubble Space Telescope image with data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory, showing the intense X-ray activity of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, 3,000 light years from Earth.
LGF, Photograph, Space, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Cat's Eye Nebula
A gallery of wonders: The Top 100 Images from the Hubble Space Telescope.