Charlottesville, VA-(ENEWSPF)- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved $9.5 million in funding to expand the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) – a multinational experiment to study how primordial galaxies forever changed the very early universe. This investment will increase the number of HERA antennas from 19 to 240 by[Read More…]
Space
NASA Television to Air Launch of Next International Space Station Crew
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- Three crew members headed to the International Space Station are scheduled to launch on Friday, Sept. 23. Live launch coverage will begin at 1:15 p.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency’s website. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, along with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will[Read More…]
Detailed Age Map Shows How Milky Way Came Together
Notre Dame, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way’s halo, University of Notre Dame astronomers have produced the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed more than 13.5 billion years ago. Astrophysicist Daniela Carollo, research assistant professor in the Department[Read More…]
Philae Found!
Philae found EU–(ENEWSPF)–5 September 2016. Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.The images were taken on 2 September by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera as the orbiter came within 2.7 km of[Read More…]
Space Station Orbits Over Three Hurricanes (Video)
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 31, 2016. This time-lapse video taken from the space station on Aug. 30 shows Hurricanes Lester and Madeline in the Pacific Ocean, then Gaston in the Atlantic Ocean. Source: http://nasa.gov
ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star
This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and[Read More…]
Spacewalkers Successfully Install New Docking Adapter for Commercial Crew Flights
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2016. Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams (shown above) and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA successfully installed the first of two international docking adapters (IDAs) Friday Aug. 19, 2016, during a five hour and 58-minute spacewalk. The IDAs will be used for the future arrivals of Boeing and SpaceX[Read More…]
Perseid Meteor Shower 2016 from West Virginia
WEST VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2016. In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. The Perseids show up every year in August when Earth ventures through trails of debris left behind by an ancient[Read More…]
NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable
Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made the planet habitable. Credits: NASA NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. Venus may[Read More…]
California’s Soberanes Fire Seen from Space
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2016. Smoke from California’s Soberanes Fire was captured in an image from NASA’s Aqua satellite on August 8, 2016. This natural-color satellite image was collected by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite. VIIRS imagery identified smoke on August 8[Read More…]
