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See Photos From the Apollo Space Missions Through Astronauts’ Eyes

March 31, 2017 Astronauts, moon, nasa, Science

Going to the Moon Through Astronaut’s Eyes

These never-before-seen images provide a new perspective on the iconic mission.
Click here or the picture to see the photos: See Photos From the Apollo Space Missions Through Astronauts’ Eyes

NASA Discusses Discovery of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets

March 29, 2017 Exoplanets, nasa, NASA TV, Planetary Science, Science, Space

Original air date: Feb. 22, 2017 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 1800 UTC) NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water — key to life as we know it — under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone. The briefing participants were: Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington Michael Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium Sean Carey, manager of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, California Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge For more information on exoplanets, visit: http://exoplanets.nasa.gov

Source: NASA TRAPPIST-1 News

NASASunEarth on Twitter: “Coming up on Tuesday, Oct. 25: the 10th anniversary of the launch of STEREO, a key piece of our sun-watching fleet. https://t.co/xMTwA3Bdh6 https://t.co/bLP0fjhLGQ”

October 21, 2016 Astronomers, astronomy, Astrophysics, nasa, Science, solar, Space, sun

Coming up on Tuesday, Oct. 25: the 10th anniversary of the launch of STEREO, a key piece of our sun-watching fleet. https://t.co/xMTwA3Bdh6 pic.twitter.com/bLP0fjhLGQ

— NASASunEarth (@NASASunEarth) October 21, 2016

NewSpace NYC and NY Society of Security Analysts – A New Space Age Race: Interplanetary Investments

September 15, 2016 Astronauts, Commercial Space Flight, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, nasa, R&D, Research & Development, Space, space missions, space travel, Startups, tech news

Three observations from tonight:
1) EVERYONE wants to be a leader but most are not visionaries.
2) A few are visionaries but lack the leadership, business skills and/or chutzpah to make it happen.
3) Then there are the very few with both vision and chutzpah to make it happen. But, they are not just the Musks or Bezoses, they are the smaller pioneers, some of whom I met tonight, and they are the key for getting to and crossing the tipping point to a vibrant commercial space industry/economy.

Caught in the act | ESA/Hubble

December 18, 2015 astronomy, Astrophysics, ESA, physics, Science

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the image of the first-ever predicted supernova explosion. The reappearance of the Refsdal supernova was calculated from different models of the galaxy cluster whose immense gravity is warping the supernova’s light.
Caught in the act | ESA/Hubble

Fermi mission finds hints of gamma-ray cycle in an active galaxy

November 16, 2015 Astrophysics, cosmic rays, physics

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected hints of periodic changes in the brightness of a so-called “active” galaxy, whose emissions are powered by a supersized black hole. If confirmed, the discovery would mark the first years-long cyclic gamma-ray emission ever detected from any galaxy, which could provide new insights into physical processes near the black hole.

Fermi mission finds hints of gamma-ray cycle in an active galaxy