Posts Tagged ‘space’
The photo captured NGC 972, one of the many galaxies in space. The photo was shared on NASA's Twitter account.Read more here. Read more...More about Space, Nasa, Science, Mashable Video, and Hubble Telescope ...
Richard Branson's space tourism company, ****** Galactic, is going public, which will make it the first publicly listed human spaceflight company.
First reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by VG, a special-purpose acquisition company (S... ...
Outer space is vast and full of darkness. But there is beauty to be found all throughout, as Hubble constantly reminds us.
Take this newly shared image of NGC 972, a spiral galaxy discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1784. It's... ...
Adam Woodworth (@ajwoodpiece on Instagram) does some cool stuff with his free time with Lego, foam, motors, and other DIY project faves, and his latest effort is an homage to the Apollo 11 landing.
The first NASA mission to put astronauts on the surf... ...
In Technology Review, author and essayist Chuck Klosterman delivers a short introduction to the stars of space rock, from Pink Floyd (above) to Hawkwind to Spacemen 3:
Space is a vacuum: the only song capturing the verbatim resonance of space is John Cage’s perfectly silent “4'33".” Any artist purporting to embody the acoustics of the ...
Astrophotographer Ralf Vandebergh captured an image of the US Air Force's X-37B space plane in orbit. The reusable, uncrewed space vehicle, designated OTV-5, is on a secret testing mission since its launch in September 2017. From Vandebergh's post at Spaceweather.com:
I have been hunting for the OTV-5 since months and saw it visually in ...
On Tuesday, people in parts of Chile and Argentina caught a fleeting glimpse of a total solar eclipse, an event that occurs when the moon completely blocks the sun and casts a shadow on Earth.
Some regions in South America saw a partial solar e... ...
After Star Trek was cancelled, Nichelle Nichols, aka Lieutenant Uhura, volunteered her time to help NASA recruit women and minorities to join the space agency. The 1977 reel above is from that era. In the clip, astronaut Alan Bean and Nichols check out NASA's shiny new Space Shuttle Enterprise. From The Space Archive:
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NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) delivered an ultra high-definition (UHD) video of astronauts from the International Space Station. The 8K video shows astronauts living, working, and conducting research aboard the space station. Read more...More a... ...
From Kennedy Space Center:
A fully functional Launch Abort System (LAS) with a test version of the Orion spacecraft attached, launches on NASA’s Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) atop a Northrop Grumman provided booster on July 2, 2019, at 7 a.m. EDT, from Launch Pad 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. During AA-2, the ...