X-ray view of the Galactic Centre EU–(ENEWSPF)–20 August 2015. This new image of powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory reveals some of the most intense processes taking place at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The[Read More…]
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NASA Scientists Help Understand Newly Discovered Planet
Artistic conception of the Jupiter-like exoplanet 51 Eridani b, with the hot layers deep in its atmosphere glowing through the clouds. Because of its young age, this cousin of our own Jupiter is still hot and carries information on the way it was formed 20 million years ago. Credits: Danielle[Read More…]
Rosetta’s Big Day in the Sun
Approaching perihelion EU–(ENEWSPF)–13 August 2015. ESA’s Rosetta today witnessed Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun. The exact moment of perihelion occurred at 02:03 GMT this morning when the comet came within 186 million km of the Sun. In the year that has passed since Rosetta arrived, the[Read More…]
Space Station Cargo Ship Departure to Air on NASA TV
The Russian Progress 58 cargo craft delivered several tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station on Feb. 17, 2015 and is set to undock and burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere on re-entry Aug. 14, 2015. Credits: NASA Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 11 2015. NASA Television will broadcast[Read More…]
NASA TV to Host Perseid Meteor Shower Program
Astronomer Fred Bruenjes recorded a series of many 30 second long exposures spanning about six hours on the night of Aug. 11 and early morning of Aug. 12, 2004 using a wide angle lens. Combining those frames which captured meteor flashes, he produced this dramatic view of the Perseids of[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Galaxy Star Birth Regulated by Black-Hole Fountain
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe’s largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s exquisite high resolution and ultraviolet-light sensitivity allowed the astronomers to see brilliant knots of hot, blue stars forming[Read More…]
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
This artist’s concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called Kepler-452b, which is about 60 percent larger in diameter. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Read more… Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015. NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the[Read More…]
NASA Satellite Camera Provides ‘EPIC’ View of Earth
Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million miles by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft. Credits: NASA Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 20, 2015. A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has returned its first view of the[Read More…]
NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” – lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains and[Read More…]
From Mountains to Moons: Multiple Discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons Pluto Mission
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise — a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.Credits: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 16, 2015. Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of[Read More…]
