Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2015. On April 30th, this region of Mercury’s surface will have a new crater! Traveling at 3.91 kilometers per second (over 8,700 miles per hour), the MESSENGER spacecraft will collide with Mercury’s surface, creating a crater estimated to be 16 meters (52 feet) in diameter. The large,[Read More…]
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NASA’s NuSTAR Captures Possible ‘Screams’ from Zombie Stars
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured a new high-energy X-ray view (magenta) of the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy. The smaller circle shows the center of our galaxy where the NuSTAR image was taken. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2015. Peering into the heart of[Read More…]
Celestial Fireworks Celebrate Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
Celebrating Hubble’s silver anniversary EU–(ENEWSPF)–23 April 2015. This glittering tapestry of young stars exploding into life in a dramatic fireworks display has been released today to celebrate 25 incredible years of the Hubble Space Telescope. The NASA/ESA Hubble was launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle on 24 April 1990.[Read More…]
NASA TV Coverage Set for Space Station Cargo Ship Activities
Progress 57, which arrived at the ISS in October 2014, will undock and depart the station on Sunday, April 26. Credits: NASA TV Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2015. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure of one cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) and the arrival of[Read More…]
NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft traveled more than six and a half years before it was inserted into orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011. Image Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015. After extraordinary science findings and technological innovations, a NASA[Read More…]
Rosetta and Philae Find Comet Not Magnetised
Rosetta and Philae investigate magnetic properties of Comet 67P/C-G EU–(ENEWSPF)–14 April 2015. Measurements made by Rosetta and Philae during the probe’s multiple landings on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko show that the comet’s nucleus is not magnetised. Studying the properties of a comet can provide clues to the role that magnetic fields played[Read More…]
The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water
NASA is exploring our solar system and beyond to understand the workings of the universe, searching for water and life among the stars. Image Credit: NASA Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2015. As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water[Read More…]
Ask an Astronomer About the Shortest Lunar Eclipse of the Century on April 4
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2015. On Saturday morning, April 4, 2015 not long before sunrise, the bright full moon over North America should turn a lovely shade of celestial red during a total lunar eclipse. The lunar eclipse will be visible from all parts of the United States. Eastern North America[Read More…]
Herschel and Planck Find Missing Clue to Galaxy Cluster Formation
Proto-cluster candidates EU–(ENEWSPF)–31 March 2015. By combining observations of the distant Universe made with ESA’s Herschel and Planck space observatories, cosmologists have discovered what could be the precursors of the vast clusters of galaxies that we see today. Galaxies like our Milky Way with its 100 billion stars are usually[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Find Clues that May Help Identify Dark Matter
Here are images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) in a study of how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide. A total of 72 large cluster collisions were studied. Image Credit: NASA and ESA[Read More…]
