So far the Carr fire has scorched more than 130,000 square acres of northern California, leaving a trail of destroyed buildings and damaged forests in its wake.
Photos from satellites have revealed just how arid California appears from space af…
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Neptune looks extremely sharp and very blue in these new images
Several billion miles from Earth, Neptune’s looking particularly sharp in a set of new images captured by one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.
Located in Chile, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) used what’s k…
These are the clearest views of Saturn’s moon Titan we’ve seen yet
Long live Cassini, which has delivered the clearest views of Saturn’s moon, Titan, to date.
Six infrared images of Titan have been captured by the noble Cassini spacecraft, which, after 13 years of exploration, finally (and sadly) burned up in Saturn…
Look to the night sky this week to see Saturn shining alongside the full moon
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Mark your calendars. This week’s night sky will provide a visual feast of celestial proportions.
As soon as the sun sets this week, look to the east. If you have a clear view, you’ll be able to see Saturn glowing brightly as Earth’s orbit brings us directly between Saturn and the sun on Wednesday.
According to a NASA skywatching video, the best time to check out the ringed world is at about midnight.
That said, you might take special care to look above you on Wednesday, when the full moon rises not far from Saturn in the night sky. Read more…
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View More Look to the night sky this week to see Saturn shining alongside the full moon8 perfect astronaut selfies for when you just need some space
Earth selfies are so two centuries ago.
If you want to impress us, you’ve got to take your picture from space.
Whether they’re outside performing maintenance on the International Space Station during a spacewalk or hanging out inside the …
Stunning space photo shows orange glow of the Kilauea volcano from orbit
From the ground, the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island looks like a hellish mouth opening up, revealing the Earth’s depths.
But from space, the volcano takes on a different look.
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold snapped a photo o…
The first photo from NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite is full of so many stars
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A new NASA telescope, sailing toward its assigned orbit, took a moment to look around before it starts its ultimate mission: searching the galaxy for alien planets.
NASA’s TESS spacecraft — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — beamed home one of its first photos taken from space, and it’s a doozy.
The photo, which effectively amounts to a test of one of the satellite’s four cameras, contains more than 200,000 stars, NASA said.
But that’s only a fraction of the number of stars it will eventually study in order to find alien worlds out there circling them. Read more…
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View More The first photo from NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite is full of so many starsHubble telescope creates awe-inspiring map of star formation in nearby galaxies
A galaxy is an incredible thing.
The vast cosmic objects are born when huge clouds of dust and gas collapse under the weight of their own gravity. Hundreds of billions of stars flicker on, and eventually planets also condense from rings of dust surro…
Tiny NASA satellite bound for Mars snaps photo of Earth from thousands of miles away
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Just call it an interplanetary postcard.
On May 5, NASA launched two, tiny, briefcase-sized satellites (called cubesats) to Mars, but at least one of them still has an eye for Earth. One of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) cubesats, nicknamed Wall-E, snapped a photo of Earth from more than half a million miles away.
Earth appears as a pale blue speck, and to its left is an even fainter speck: our moon.
NASA scientists weren’t doing this for sport, but to see if the cubesat’s antenna had unfolded — and worked. Read more…
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An astronaut saw Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupting from space. And he took a picture.
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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been spewing plumes of ash and steam from its main vent and oozing lava into nearby neighborhoods since the beginning of May.
And now, even astronauts on the International Space Station can see the volcanic activity from orbit.
NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel — a current Space Station crewmember — snapped a photo of the volcano belching out a thick plume of steam tinged with a bit of ash from his post 250 miles above.
The vent photographed by Feustel is named Halema’uma’u but commonly called the “overlook vent,” as it’s a popular destination in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Read more…
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View More An astronaut saw Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupting from space. And he took a picture.Researchers spot colliding galaxies interacting in the early universe
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The earliest eons of the universe were turbulent and violent.
Newly found data shows that back then — just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang set this cosmic experiment in motion — a group of 14 galaxies in the midst of star formation merged and interacted with one another.
The galaxies found in the new data, which was collected by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) ALMA and APEX telescopes, are known as starburst galaxies.
These types of galaxies form thousands of stars each year, as opposed to a more typical galaxy like our own, which only forms a few annually. Read more…
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View More Researchers spot colliding galaxies interacting in the early universeIncredible new photo shows Mars bathed in dramatic light
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A beautiful new photo shows off Mars in a dramatic new light.
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter just beamed home the amazing new image from April 15.
The photo was taken by the satellite’s Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) right after the satellite moved into a new orbit about 400 kilometers above the world’s surface. The lighting is what makes it really special.
“We were really pleased to see how good this picture was, given the lighting conditions,” Antoine Pommerol, a member of the science team, said in a statement. You can see the Korolev Crater covered with ice in the planet’s northern hemisphere, according to the ESA. Read more…
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View More Incredible new photo shows Mars bathed in dramatic light