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Astronomers get a 3D look at nearby stellar nurseries

Friday, October 15th 2021 09:35 AM

  Gas and dust of Perseus molecular cloud, as observed by the NASA´s Spitzer Space Telescope. About a dozen stellar nurseries reside in the solar neighborhood. Perhaps the most thoroughly studied among them are Taurus and Perseus molecular clouds. Countless celestial cartographers have scrutinized the two regions, filling their maps with stars and vast clouds of gas intertwined with d...

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NASA Turns to the Cloud for Help With Next-Generation Earth Missions

Thursday, October 14th 2021 09:14 AM

  The state-of-the-art Earth science satellites launching in the near future will be generating unprecedented quantities of data on our planet’s vital signs. Cloud computing will help researchers make the most of those troves of information. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory As satellites collect larger and larger amounts of data, engineers and researchers are implementing solutions to m...

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With First Martian Samples Packed, Perseverance Initiates Remarkable Sample Return Mission

Wednesday, October 13th 2021 09:17 AM

On Sept. 1, NASA’s Perseverance rover unfurled its arm, placed a drill bit at the Martian surface, and drilled about 2 inches, or 6 centimeters, down to extract a rock core. The rover later sealed the rock core in its tube. This historic event marked the first time a spacecraft packed up a rock sample from another planet that could be returned to Earth by future spacecraft. Mars Sample Re...

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The Sky This Week: Observe the Moon

Friday, October 15th 2021 09:31 AM

Setting satellite: The bright Moon sets in this photo taken October 1, 2012.   Friday, October 15 The Moon passes 4° south of Jupiter in Capricornus at 6 A.M. EDT. You can’t see them then — both are below the horizon — but they are visible in the sky tonight after sunset. By then, the Moon has shifted over into Aquarius and sits 8.2° east-southeast of Jupiter. T...

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Image of the Day

Wednesday, October 13th 2021 09:19 AM

NASA's Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main asteroid belt, and by seven Trojan asteroids. This illustration is of the Lucy mission's seven targets: the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, Polymele, and the main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson. Lucy is scheduled to launch on...

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The Sky This Week: All eyes on Uranus

Monday, October 11th 2021 09:46 AM

  A distant giant: The Hubble Space Telescope captured this colorful image of the ice giant Uranus in November 2016.   Friday, October 8 Today, tomorrow, and Sunday, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is hosting a public livestream of the planet Uranus, as observed with NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The livestream will run each morning from 4 A.M....

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