Comet ISON had been discovered in September 2012. Hubble Space Telescope: NASA releases time-lapse sequence of Comet ISON’s movement captured by Hubble Space Telescope! On Tuesday, the US space agency NASA released a time-lapse video of the Comet ISON moving against the stars. The video was made based on images captured by the Hubble Space … Read more
The entire process had been encrypted. (Image: NASA) US Elections 2020: NASA astronaut casts vote from International Space Station! As part of the exercise to decide the next President of the United States of America, US citizens could either vote on the election day, or choose early voting or even cast votes through absentee ballots, … Read more
New Delhi: The share of stubble burning in Delhi‘s pollution rose to 40 per cent on Sunday, the maximum so far this season, according to a central government air quality monitoring agency. The Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitor, SAFAR, said 3,216 farm fires were spotted over Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand on … Read more
An astronaut, wandering in space, directly tweets her selfies with the rover. Another astronaut posts stunning shots of the Moon from space and also streams videos in the vacuum. Not fiction. This may soon be a reality! In a rare solution to internet connectivity issues, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) and Nokia are … Read more
Sunspots are the dark patches on the Sun’s surface due to the star’s magnetic field. (Image: NASA) NASA’s new look at Sunspots: For years, Sun has been an object of fascination for scientists. Its study has only been boosted by NASA’s massive fleet of spacecrafts that allow astronomers to take a closer look at the … Read more
The image was observed by Adam Riess, who is a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. (Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani) Hubble Telescope: Hubble captures stunning image of spiral galaxy! The Hubble Telescope, operated by US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), has captured … Read more
WASHINGTON: Scientists have identified 24 planets outside our solar system that they say may have conditions more suitable for life than the Earth. The study, published in the journal Astrobiology, details characteristics of potential “superhabitable” planets, that include those that are older, a little larger, slightly warmer and possibly wetter than Earth. The researchers from … Read more
The satellite was sent to help NASA have more clarity on Earth’s magnetic environment and its interaction with the sun while orbiting around it. NASA’s satellite-Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 spacecraft (OGO-1) that was launched into space in September 1964 will soon be entering the Earth’s atmosphere. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), … Read more
Chennai: Space enthusiast Shanmuga Subramanian, who found the debris of India’s moonlander Vikram, said on Saturday that Chandrayaan-2’s rover Pragyan seems to be intact on the moon’s surface and had rolled out a few metres from the lander. In a series of tweets along with the pictures of the moon surface, Subramanian said: “Chandrayaan-2’s Pragyan … Read more
Story highlights Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut He voted in the 2016 election CNN — From infinity and beyond, he found a way to vote. Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut currently living on board the International Space Station, filed his ballot in Tuesday’s presidential election, according to a Tumblr post by NASA. NASA told … Read more