On June 5 and 6, 2012, prepare for something extraordinary. Millions of people spanning the globe will be able to see the planet Venus pass across the face of the sun in what will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience known as a “Venus transit.” It will take Venus about six hours to complete its journey across [...]
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Someone call Kevin Costner. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an entirely new class of planet, totally enveloped by water. The so-called “Waterworld Planet” has a thick atmosphere and is smaller than the planet Uranus but bigger than Earth. “GJ1214b is like no planet we know of,” said Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian [...]
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Here’s something you don’t see every day. Astronomers believe they have determined what caused a giant energy flash spotted in a galaxy far, far away, saying it emanated from an enormous massive black hole that gobbled up a star that had drifted too close to it. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift satellite, and the [...]
Today, a special NASA announcement revealed that Hubble Telescope has found the most distant galaxy ever witnessed in the known universe. Scientists have managed to push the Hubble to new limits by finding what is probably the most distant object ever found in the universe. It’s estimated that it took light from this galaxy 13.2 [...]
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured something truly awesome…a planet right here in our own galaxy that is in the process of being engulfed by its star…its own sun, if you will. The planet is called WASP-12b and it has the highest known surface temperature of any other planet in our galaxy…currently around 1,500 degrees [...]
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NASA recently did an overhaul on the Hubble Telescope. The new Hubble photos that were released today are absolutely stellar, literally. NASA invested nearly one billion dollars to give the Hubble a facelift. It appears that it was money well spent. Last May, NASA commissioned a team of scientists to perform some celestial repair procedures [...]
After numerous scrapped attempts due to inclement weather, Atlantis experienced a near-perfect space shuttle landing on Sunday morning. During the voyage, the Atlantis crew likely made their final spacewalk ever from a shuttle airlock. The shuttle itself also probably flew its final mission to a location other than the International Space Station. “It was a [...]
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For the first time ever, an astronaut has tweeted from space. Mike Massimino, a.k.a Astro_Mike, has tweeted while aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. His status update reads: “From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!” Astro_Mike is one of 7 [...]
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