NASA’s Spitzer uncovers hidden jet
by yaska77 The image below details two different views of the same baby star; to the left is the visible-light image, the right side is an infrared taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s IRAC...
View ArticleJupiter bound Juno arrives in Florida
by yaska77 On Friday 8th April NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived in Florida for final checks before the planned launch this summer. The solar-powered craft is set to orbit Jupiter’s poles 33 times to...
View ArticleNew telescope shows nebula like never before
by tte-77 The star-forming region of Messier 17 - 268 mega-pixel camera. Image Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM A new state-of-the-art telescope has snapped its first impressive images of the southern sky...
View ArticleJuno Blasts Off
by foo77 Just two weeks after retiring the shuttle program NASA is proving it is still the front-runner in space exploration. An unmanned space probe called Juno on route to Jupiter launched on Friday...
View ArticleHubble’s wonderful ‘Necklace’
by tte-77 The amazing Necklace Nebula - Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) On 2 July, 2011 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 snapped this image of a newly...
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