26 June 2008
New analysis of Mars' terrain using observations of two of NASA’s Mars-bound spacecrafts reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater in the Solar System.
20 June 2008
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently published an interesting image of Rhea, Saturn’s second largest moon. Among the remarkable surface features recorded in the image are two large, ancient impact basins and a younger bright rayed crater.
18 June 2008
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has announced that four American students have won NASA’s Cassini Scientist for a Day contest, with most choosing Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, as the best object for scientists to study using NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
16 June 2008
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently published wonderful ultraviolet images of two of Saturn’s icy moons; Rhea (1,528 km across), Saturn’s second largest moon, and Tethys (1,062 km across), Saturn’s enigmatic icy moon. The images were acquired by the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft.
15 June 2008
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) pictured a giant cluster of galaxies, known as the Coma Cluster of galaxies. HST's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) viewed a large area of the cluster, spanning several million light-years across. The entire cluster contains thousands of galaxies in a spherical shape over 20 million light-years in diameter.
12 June 2008
On 11 June 2008, NASA successfully launched the GLAST spacecraft, a new mission to explore the Universe in gamma rays. GLAST was launched aboard the powerful Delta 2 rocket, from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida.
10 June 2008
NASA recently published a stunning image of Tethys, one of Saturn’s bizarre moons. The image was acquired by the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft.
07 June 2008
More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) have been stitched together to produce a new "coming of age" picture of stars in the inner region of our Milky Way Galaxy. The image covers an area of sky measuring 120 degrees by two degrees. It was unveiled recently at the 212th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in St. Louis.
05 June 2008
SuWt 2 is a planetary nebula, consisting of a bright, nearly edge-on glowing ring of gas. Planetary nebulae are the remains of dead Sun-like stars, formed when a star sheds its outer gaseous envelope during the end throes of its lifetime. Intriguingly, this fascinating object became a cosmic crime scene. Astronomers are engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation), searching for a missing white dwarf star within this nebula.
28 May 2008
A telescopic camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft imaged NASA’s Mars Lander Phoenix during its Martian landing. In the stunning image, Phoenix Mars Lander is suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful plunge into the Martian atmosphere on 25 May.