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Women of NASA Get LEGO-sized Tribute | Popular Science
You can probably name a handful of astronauts and astrophysicists, most of them male. Throughout grade school, their names are repeated in history books: Buzz, Neil, Gus… what about the women who set many of these missions into motion? The … Continue reading
Ode to JOI (Jupiter Orbit Insertion)
What will NASA’s Juno spacecraft find when it reaches Jupiter next Monday? Very little, if Juno does not survive Jupiter Orbit Insertion, a complex series of operations in an unknown environment just above Jupiter’s cloud tops. If successful, as explained in the featured video, … Continue reading
First Supernova Shock Wave Image Snapped by Planet-Hunting Telescope
Wow! For the first time, scientists have seen the shock wave emanating from an exploding star in visible light. Using NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope, researchers saw the shock wave coming from a massive star explosion (a supernova) that came into Kepler’s … Continue reading
Aurora or Patronus?
A Patronus Aurora over Iceland Image: Hallgrimur P. Helgason; Constellation Annotation: Judy SchmidtExplanation: By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet night last September, much of that night’s auroras had died down. Suddenly though, a new burst of particles streamed down from space, lighting up the Earth’s … Continue reading
We Are Star Stuff
In a graphic representation of Carl Sagan’s famous quote: “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are … Continue reading
Lovejoy is Visible to the Naked Eye!
Oh yeah, sorry. Not that one. This one: Comet Lovejoy has become visible to the unaided eye. To see the comet, just go outside an hour or so after sunset and look for a fuzzy patch to the right of Orion’s belt.
The Sun in X-rays
The Sun in X-rays from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Image Credit: NuSTAR, SDO, NASA Explanation: Why are the regions above sunspots so hot? Sunspots themselves are a bit cooler than the surrounding solar surface because the magnetic fields that create them reduce convective heating. It is therefore unusual … Continue reading
Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko close-up
The Cliffs of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko Image Credit: ESA, Rosetta spacecraft, NAVCAM; Additional Processing: Stuart AtkinsonExplanation: These high cliffs occur on the surface of a comet. They were discovered to be part of the dark nucleus of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (CG) by Rosetta, a robotic spacecraft launched by ESA which began orbiting the comet … Continue reading
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