This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot.
From the NASA Image of the Day Gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,”This image
A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years:
… Read the rest “Something just blew up on the Moon.”“On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,”
New Scientist has more on the possible discovery of two cosmic neutrinos near the South Pole:
… Read the rest “Something strange was found in Antarctica. Something alien. And very, very small.”In June last year the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole reported the sighting of two
New Scientist reports on the Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery: a pair of neighboring planets that could both support life – within easy reach of each other:
… Read the rest “Buddy planets. We just found them, but they probably know each other.”Though
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Nature calls them, poetically enough, the skeletons of “wandering ice giants”:
… Read the rest “Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet”Among the most puzzling finds of NASA’s Kepler space mission to find exoplanets, which launched
Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space:
… Read the rest “Hubble snaps galactic vee.”This large “flying V”
You may have heard about this by now, but a 10-ton chunk of space rock slammed into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded, RT and dozens of other outlets have reported. The… Read the rest “Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.”
CNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born:
… Read the rest ““Breathe, supernova! Now PUSH!” (Watching a black hole being born.)”Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the “remnant,”
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race.
This is an image of promise. There is a better tomorrow out there in the void. … Read the rest “Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965”
Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall:
… Read the rest “Black hole, light show.”Back in 2011, astronomers spotted an interstellar gas cloud plunging more
Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration.
It begins and ends with the sky.
Here’s what he read:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco”One
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