TagsTagsThe 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.
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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 is provided ...
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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 in ...
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.
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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)
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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.
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A gallery of wonders: The Top 100 Images from the Hubble Space Telescope.