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51 Pegasi, The Beatles!
50 years ago yesterday (February 9, 1964) the United States was invaded. The invaders? Four mop-topped, adorable, and incredibly talented musicians from Across The Pond (aka England). Two days after...
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Dripping Springs Keeps The Stars In Texas
What does the view of the constellation Orion look like from your backyard? The image on the left shows Orion from dark skies, and on the right the same constellation viewed from the metropolis of...
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Project Morpheus
Suitably named for Morpheus, the god of dreams in Greek mythology, Project Morpheus is a project for people who dream big, really big! In July of 2010, engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center began...
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Happy Birthday Hubble!
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched and deployed in April 1990. Since then our view of the universe, and our understanding of our place within it, has never been the same. From the dawn of...
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Hubble: The Images
In this recent Hubble Space Telescope image, published by NASA on Jan 24, 2014, two brightly shining objects are clearly visible. Seemingly! First discovered in 1979, astronomers soon realized that...
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Underground Sea Detected On Icy Enceladus
Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, is one of the brightest objects in our solar system. Covered in water ice, the tiny (barely more than 300 miles in diameter) moon reflects almost 100% of the sunlight...
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NASA’s LADEE to ‘Take the Plunge’!
Launched from Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility on Sept 6, 2013, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft with its three science payload instruments...
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Yuri’s Night! April 12!
“Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it!“- Yuri Gagarin Soviet pilot and...
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Kepler Finds First Earth-size Planet in the Habitable Zone
In a April 17 news release NASA has announced that astronomers using the Kepler Space Telescope have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the circumstellar habitable zone, or the...
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Illustris Simulation of the Universe
The above computer simulation of the evolution of the universe, The Illustris project, provides new insight into how galaxies formed. The mind-blowing simulation, the largest and most ambitious yet...
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