by Frank Tomaras | Jan 24, 2019 | News
The wonders – and mysteries – of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to multiply as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft beams home new images of its New Year’s Day 2019 flyby target. Full Story here: Ultima Thule
by Frank Tomaras | Oct 24, 2018 | News
The Cat’s Paw Nebula, imaged here by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope using the MIPS and IRAC instruments, is a star-forming region that lies inside the Milky Way Galaxy. New stars may heat up the surrounding gas, which can expand to form...
by Frank Tomaras | Oct 13, 2018 | News
This graphic shows the position of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes relative to the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, or the edge of the heliosphere, in 2012....
by Frank Tomaras | Aug 9, 2018 | News
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. The habitable zone, also identified as the Goldilocks zone, is...
by Frank Tomaras | Jan 9, 2018 | News
Complete story and more amazing images here: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-jupiter-pictures-nasa-juno-perijove-orbit-ten-2017-11/#nasa-launched-juno-in-2011-and-it-took-nearly-five-years-for-the-probe-to-reach-jupiter-1