Uranus, a huge gaseous world some 1.8 billion miles from the sun, is quite stormy.
NASA’s long-lived Hubble telescope spotted a notable storm churning inside the planet’s blue-green atmosphere, and the space agency posted the image online Thursday.
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NASA releases the “last light” image taken by Kepler before it retired last year
NASA has released the final view taken by Kepler in September, shortly before the space telescope was retired after nearly a decade of unprecedented discoveries about the universe beyond our solar system. “It bookends the moment of intense excitement nine and a half years earlier when the spacecraft first opened its eye to the skies […]
View More NASA releases the “last light” image taken by Kepler before it retired last yearAfter escaping the Trump chopping block twice, NASA’s carbon sleuth will get blasted into space
In early 2017, the Trump Administration tried to ax NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, or OCO-3. It didn’t work. Then, again in 2018, the White House sought to terminate the earth science instrument.
Again, the refrigerator-sized space machine persisted.
Now, SpaceX is set to launch OCO-3 to the International Space Station in the coming months, as early as April 25. Using a long robotic arm, astronauts will attach OCO-3 to the edge of the space station, allowing the instrument to peer down upon Earth and measure the planet’s amassing concentrations of carbon dioxide — a potent greenhouse gas. Read more…
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View More After escaping the Trump chopping block twice, NASA’s carbon sleuth will get blasted into spaceSpaceX and Boeing commercial crew capsule test dates slip yet again
One of the most important upcoming events in the space industry is undoubtedly the advent of SpaceX and Boeing’s competing crew-bearing capsules, which the companies have been working on for years. But today brings yet another delay for both programs, already years behind schedule.
View More SpaceX and Boeing commercial crew capsule test dates slip yet againNASA cubecraft WALL-E and EVE sign off after historic Mars flyby
A NASA mission that sent two tiny spacecraft farther out than any like them before appears to have come to an end: Cubesats MarCO-A and B (nicknamed WALL-E and EVE) are no longer communicating from their positions a million and two million miles from Earth respectively.
View More NASA cubecraft WALL-E and EVE sign off after historic Mars flybyUltima Thule shows its lumps in latest images from New Horizons flyby
The rendezvous between the New Horizons probe and the distant object known as Ultima Thule was an historic moment, but after the mind-blowing imagery the craft sent back from Pluto, you could be forgiven for being a little disappointed in how indistinct the early imagery was. Those concerns should be partly alleviated by the latest image from the probe, which shows the rocky world in considerably greater detail.
View More Ultima Thule shows its lumps in latest images from New Horizons flybyNew Horizons beams back most detailed view yet of super-distant world, MU69
The legendary New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the most detailed image yet of MU69 — the most distant object a human spacecraft has ever explored.
At some four billion miles from Earth, and one billion miles past Pluto, MU69 (which also goes by “Ultima Thule”) has been an object of mystery since its discovery in 2014. But New Horizons finally swooped by the distant object just after the 2019 New Year, uncovering a frozen, snowman-shaped world, composed of two roundish “lobes” that have been stuck together.
“This new image is starting to reveal differences in the geologic character of the two lobes of Ultima Thule, and is presenting us with new mysteries as well,” said Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, in a statement. The mission is is jointly managed by NASA, the Southwest Research Institute, and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Read more…
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View More New Horizons beams back most detailed view yet of super-distant world, MU69Watch Blue Origin’s 10th New Shepard mission launch a science-loaded capsule to space
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, is about to undertake the 10th launch of its New Shepard launch vehicle, with its capsule chock full of experiments. The launch, which was originally scheduled for a month ago but delayed for various reasons, will be take place at 6:50 AM Pacific time.
View More Watch Blue Origin’s 10th New Shepard mission launch a science-loaded capsule to spaceRare ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ will be visible this weekend
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View More Rare ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ will be visible this weekendNew Horizons unveils a new world. Actually, it’s 2 worlds smashed together.
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It’s a new, weird world.
The deep space exploration craft New Horizons has sent back the first detailed images of an ancient world floating more than 4 billion miles from Earth, formally known as 2014 MU69. The clearest glimpse yet of MU69 shows that it’s shaped like a snowman, with two roundish lobes that have been fused together.
It is by far the most distant world a spacecraft — and by extension humanity — has ever explored.
“What this spacecraft and this team accomplished is unprecedented,” Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, said from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on Wednesday. Read more…
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View More New Horizons unveils a new world. Actually, it’s 2 worlds smashed together.Behold Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft
The New Horizons probe has just sent back its first real shots of Ultima Thule, a 21-mile-long rock or planetesimal deep in the reaches of the solar system — and now the most distant object ever visited up close by mankind. The principal investigator of the mission, Alan Stern, called the accomplishment “a technical success beyond anything ever attempted before in spaceflight.”
View More Behold Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraftUltima Thule is getting clearer, and it looks like a big bowling pin
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It looks like a giant bowling pin.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back its closest view of the most distant world humanity has ever visited, Ultima Thule, a snapshot taken on December 31. From half a million miles out, Ultima still appears fuzzy, but the irregularly-shaped object is becoming increasingly clear.
The day prior, New Year’s Eve, Ultima was just comprised of a few pixels — so this is a notable improvement.
“Even though it’s a pixelated blob still, it’s a better pixelated blob,” New Horizons project scientist Hal Weaver said Tuesday at mission headquarters, located at Maryland’s Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Read more…
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View More Ultima Thule is getting clearer, and it looks like a big bowling pin