The two images at top reveal debris disks around young stars uncovered in archival images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The illustration beneath each image depicts the orientation of the debris disks. Image Credit: NASA/ESA, R. Soummer, Ann Feild (STScI) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space[Read More…]
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Hubble Celebrates Its 24th Anniversary with an Infrared Look at a Nearby Star Factory
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) NASA/ESA-(ENEWSPF)- This colorful Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula unveils a collection of carved knots of gas and dust silhouetted against glowing gas. The cloud is sculpted by ultraviolet light eating into the cool hydrogen gas. As the[Read More…]
NASA’s Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in ‘Habitable Zone’
Kepler-186f resides in the Kepler-186 system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The system is also home to four inner planets, seen lined up in orbit around a host star that is half the size and mass of the sun. Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April[Read More…]
First Radar Vision for Copernicus
Brussels as the first image from Sentinel-1A EU–(ENEWSPF)–16 April 2014. Launched on 3 April, ESA’s Sentinel-1A satellite has already delivered its first radar images of Earth. They offer a tantalising glimpse of the kind of operational imagery that this new mission will provide for Europe’s ambitious Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.[Read More…]
Marking UN Space Day, Online Astronaut Encourages Exploration: ‘Always Carry Duct Tape’
A close-up of UNOOSA space applications expert and astronaut Takao Doi aboard Columbia. Photo: NASA Vienna, Austria–(ENEWSPF)–11 April 2014 – The necessity for international cooperation in space and the universal utility of duct tape were among insights revealed when the United Nations sent a former astronaut into cyberspace today to[Read More…]
Hubble Stretches Stellar Tape Measure 10 Times Farther into Space
This illustration shows how the precision stellar distance measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have been extended 10 times farther into our Milky Way galaxy than possible previously. Image: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Even though NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is 24 years old, astronomers are still coming[Read More…]
Beauty from Chaos/ Images Captured by Mars Express
Osuga Valles EU–(ENEWSPF)–10 April 2014. Beautiful streamlined islands and narrow gorges were carved by fast-flowing water pounding through a small, plateau region near the southeastern margin of the vast Vallis Marineris canyon system. Osuga Valles in context Images captured on 7 December 2013 by ESA’s Mars Express show the central[Read More…]
Construction to Begin on NASA Spacecraft Set to Visit Asteroid in 2018
This is an artist’s concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft preparing to take a sample from asteroid Bennu. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2014. NASA’s team that will conduct the first U.S. mission to collect samples from an asteroid has been given the go-ahead to begin building the spacecraft, flight[Read More…]
Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus Has Underground Sea
Inside Enceladus EU–(ENEWSPF)–3 April 2014. Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has an underground sea of liquid water, according to the international Cassini spacecraft. Understanding the interior structure of 500 km-diameter Enceladus has been a top priority of the Cassini mission since plumes of ice and water vapour were discovered jetting from[Read More…]
NASA Hubble Team Finds Monster ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy Cluster Bigger Than Thought
This is a Hubble image of the most massive cluster of galaxies ever seen to exist when the universe was just half its current age of 13.8 billion years. The cluster contains several hundred galaxies. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Jee (University of California, Davis) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2014. [Read More…]
