New Horizons
Ready to explore Pluto? NASA’s New Horizons – the fastest spacecraft ever created – will speed past Pluto on July 14, 2015, beaming back high resolution photos (and invaluable data) of the dwarf planet’s...
Ready to explore Pluto? NASA’s New Horizons – the fastest spacecraft ever created – will speed past Pluto on July 14, 2015, beaming back high resolution photos (and invaluable data) of the dwarf planet’s...
This is a live video feed from the International Space Station. Watch long enough and you can see a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes. The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the...
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio made a video of the sun at different wave lengths. [via boingboing]
Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex...
The guys and girls from the YouTube channel Satire took LMFAO’s I’m Sexy and I Know It and turned it into NASA Curiosity mission anthem called We’re NASA and We Know It. [Via YouTube]
NASA Astronaut Don Pettit uses his off-duty time to practice his microgravity yo-yo skills. [Via boingboing]
Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views...
Folks at the NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio created this amazing animation showing our view of the Moon over the entire year of 2012 with time resolution of *one hour*! The tipping, tilting, and...
Brant Widgeon is an Astronomical Image Enhancement Engineer. Many people are surprised to hear everything that goes into making the beautiful celestial images that have brought us so much awe and wonder. One of...