Data from ESA’s Gaia mission is re-writing the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way. What had traditionally been thought of as satellite galaxies to the Milky Way are now revealed to be mostly newcomers to our…
NASA’s Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic Magnifying Glass
[caption id="attachment_724" align="aligncenter" width="673"] The mammoth galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is so massive that its powerful gravity bends the light from galaxies far behind it, making these otherwise unseen background objects appear larger and brighter…
NASA Spacecraft Provides New Information About Sun’s Atmosphere
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided scientists with five new findings into how the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, is heated far hotter than its surface, what causes the sun’s constant outflow of particles…
Mars One (and done?)
MIT team independently assesses the technical feasibility of the proposed Mars One mission. [caption id="attachment_681" align="aligncenter" width="639"] The non-profit company Mars One plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars by 2025. Pictured is…
ESA confirms the primary landing site for Rosetta
[caption id="attachment_675" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Philae’s primary landing site – mosaic[/caption] Paris -- ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November,…