Saturday, June 14, 2014
An Ocean On Pluto’s Moon? Hopeful Scientists Will Keep An Eye Out For Cracks
Artist impression of Pluto and Charon (NASA)
A Puzzling Cosmic Ring
The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538. (Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Whitman College)
‘Dark’ and Powerful Space Explosions May Be Cloaked by Cosmic Dust
Observations of galaxy GRB 020819B of molecular gas (left) and dust (middle) done by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). At right is a visible-light image from the Frederick C. Gillett Gemini North Telescope. The cross indicates the site of a gamma-ray burst in the region. Credit: Bunyo Hatsukade(NAOJ), ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
Two Giant Planets Hiding Beyond Pluto
Three images, showing dwarf planet 2012 VP113 in red, then green, then blue, were combined to reveal its path across the night sky (Image: Scott S. Sheppard, Carnegie Institution for Science)
NASA’s Orion spacecraft nearly ready for its mission to Mars
Credit: NASA
Images of “The Beast” asteroid blazing past earth
NASA scientists used Earth-based radar to produce these sharp views of the HQ124 asteroid on June 8, 2014. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arecibo Observatory/USRA/NSF
