November 1, 2006
Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
Taken by a singularly talented photographer.
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Archive for the 'Space' Category
A giant hop for robot-kind
As Nasa’s Martian robot, Opportunity, wheels its way around the edge of the Victoria crater, a new breed of automaton is being developed that could provide a great leap forward, literally, in robotic exploration.
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Hi-res, full-color photos of the Earth from space updated daily!
Zoom in to see hi-res images of clouds over the Earth taken by NASA’s MODIS Terra satellite, updated around midday PST each day.
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Major SETI Announcement
Not allot of details, but SETI is evidently about to make a major announcement. Hope it isn’t just some update about a telescope or something. I want me some aliens!
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Earth has a “second moon” : Asteroid 2003 YN107
Title says it all. Interresting read. Read on
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Cool Picture of the International Space Station silhouetted by the Moon
On October 6th, a nearly full perigee Moon shone in Earth’s night sky. The bright moonlight, accurate planning, and proper equipment resulted in this amazing composite featuring sharp silhouettes of the International Space Station (ISS) as it rapidly crossed (right to left) in front of the lunar disk.
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NASA approves sending space shuttle to repair Hubble telescope
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Tuesday approved sending a space shuttle to repair the 16-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, reversing his predecessor’s contentious decision to nix the mission.
Griffin’s announcement was greeted eagerly by astronomers who feared Hubble would deteriorate before the end of the decade
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Photo: Wow!….Now THIS is a Comet!!
Near its closest approach to planet Earth, comet SWAN brightened unexpectedly earlier this week. Telescopic observers also noticed dramatic changes in the comet’s colorful coma and tail, seen in this view recorded on October 25th.
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Discovery of gamma rays from the edge of a black hole!
The astrophysicists of the international H.E.S.S. collaboration report the discovery of fast variability in very-high-energy gamma rays from the giant elliptical galaxy M 87. The detection of these gamma-ray photons - with energies more than a million million times the energy of visible light from one of the most famous extragalactic objects.
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