Tag: Space
After 50 thousand years, it is back!
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility in early March 2022.
A [...]
A party of 5 in the Southern Ring Nebula
How did all the “partygoers” –up to five stars– create the Southern Ring Nebula? Let’s hit “rewind” and replay the interactions that might have creat [...]
Orion Spacecraft back in Kennedy Space Center
After its 1.4-million-mile mission beyond the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived back at NASA’s Kennedy Space Cent [...]
Orion comes back from the Moon
After a 25.5 day mission in space, the Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean some 20 minutes from noon. NASA informed on the succesful unm [...]
NASA sets live coverage of Orion’s return, splashdown
NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft’s return to Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11.
The agency also will host several [...]
The beauty of a proto-star by the James Webb
The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded with [...]
Orion enters lunar sphere of influence
Five days into the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Orion continues on its trajectory toward the Moon.
Flight controllers in the White Flight Control R [...]
Liftoff! NASA’s mega rocket launches Orion to Moon
Following a successful launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, the agency’s Orion spacecraft is on its way [...]
Psyche goes on, NASA to increase staff
NASA and the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which leads Psyche, shared a response Friday to the results of an indep [...]
Hubble snaps a pair of interacting galaxies
The two interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space T [...]