Posted on September 23, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
This star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star’s remaining core.
September 23, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cMFYGB
Posted on September 22, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Practicing Orion Spacecraft Recovery After Splashdown
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery techniques in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to prepare for the first test flight of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft with the agency’s Space Launch System rocket during Exploration Mission (EM-1).
September 22, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cZqSuR
Posted on September 21, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: One Billion Base Pairs Sequenced on the Space Station
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins’ expedition began, zero base pairs of DNA had been sequenced in space. Within just a few weeks, she and the Biomolecule Sequencer team had sequenced their one billionth base of DNA aboard the orbiting laboratory.
September 21, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cRwlW4
Posted on September 20, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Space Station Flight Over the Southern Tip of Italy
The southern tip of Italy is visible in this image taken by the Expedition 49 crew aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 17, 2016. The brightly lit city of Naples can be seen in the bottom section of the image. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft can be seen in the foreground.
September 20, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cAAbBy
Posted on September 19, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Where the Small Moon Rules
Pan may be small as satellites go, but like many of Saturn’s ring moons, it has a has a very visible effect on the rings.
September 19, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cCH3E7
Posted on September 16, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: NASA’s IceBridge Observes Effects of Summer Melt on Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA’s IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This photograph from the flight captures Greenland’s Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off of the Denmark Strait in the background.
September 16, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cOTwkk
Posted on September 15, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Infrared Echoes of a Black Hole Eating a Star
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The feeding black hole is surrounded by a ring of dust. This dust was previously illuminated by flares of high-energy radiation from the feeding black hole, and is now shown re-radiating some of that energy.
September 15, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cIf9V1
Posted on September 14, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: Sept. 14, 1966 – View From Gemini XI, 850 Miles Above the Earth
The western half of Australia, looking west, as seen from the Gemini XI spacecraft, 850 miles above the Earth on Sept. 14, 1966. Reaching this record-shattering altitude was a highlight of a demanding, three-day mission for Gemini XI command pilot Charles “Pete” Conrad and pilot Dick Gordon.
September 14, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cttuTc
Posted on September 12, 2016
The Planet
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It’s not visible to the naked eye, and became the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. Uranus is tipped over on its side with an axial tilt of 98 degrees. It is often described as “rolling around the Sun on its side.”
Posted on September 12, 2016
NASA Image of the Day: At Hangar, Raptors Find Shelter from the Storm
As Tropical Storm Hermine charged up the East Coast Sept. 2, the hangar at NASA Langley was able to carefully sandwich in more than a dozen Air Force fighters and offer them protection from the wind. The hangar provides 85,200 square feet (7,915 square meters) of open space and large door dimensions that allow for entry of big aircraft.
September 12, 2016 from NASA http://ift.tt/2cQVL62
