A new look at the debris from an exploded star in our galaxy has astronomers re-examining when the supernova actually happened.
Tag: NASA
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Lake Powell From the Space Station's EarthKAM
The remotely controlled Sally Ride EarthKAM aboard the International Space Station acquired this photograph on July 14, 2016, as the orbiting laboratory flew over Lake Powell and the border of Utah and Arizona. Located on the Colorado River, Lake Powell is the second largest artificial reservoir in the United States.
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Astronauts Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams Prepare For a Spacewalk
Expedition 48 crew members Kate Rubins (left) and Jeff Williams (right) of NASA outfit spacesuits inside of the Quest airlock aboard the International Space Station. Rubins and Williams will conduct a spacewalk on Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, to install a new docking port that will enable the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update: Photometer Update
The team has confirmed that the photometer responded as expected and began collecting data again on Tuesday, Aug. 2.
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Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has helped amass the most complete catalog of rotation periods for stars in a cluster
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Perseid Meteor Shower 2016 from West Virginia
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
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Site of 2016 Summer Olympic Games Viewed by NASA's MISR Instrument
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite passed directly over Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 2, 2016, just prior to the opening of the Summer Olympic Games. On the left is an image from MISR’s nadir camera; on the right, a map of aerosol optical depth.
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A Black Hole Story Told by a Cosmic Blob and Bubble
Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.
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Infrared Saturn Clouds
This false-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view was made using images taken by Cassini’s wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
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Aurora and Manicouagan Crater
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station adjusted the camera for night imaging and captured the green veils and curtains of an aurora that spanned thousands of kilometers over Quebec, Canada.
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NASA Charges Toward Greener Aviation With Novel Concepts
NASA has selected five green technology concepts that have the potential to transform the aviation industry in the next decade by reducing aircraft fuel use and emissions.
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Kepler Mission Manager Update: K2 Campaign 10
The team finds the photometer—the camera onboard the Kepler spacecraft—powered off. The photometer was turned on again and commanded to resume science operations.
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Neil Armstrong in NASA Ames' Bell X-14 Aircraft
Neil A. Armstrong is photographed in the cockpit of the Ames Bell X-14 aircraft at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930.