Category: astronomy

THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE

How fast is the universe expanding? A new ScienceCast video from NASA explains more about Hubble’s Constant, which is the name given by astronomers to the rate of the expansion of the universe.

CASSINI’S FINAL PLUNGE!

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn in 9 days. It will bravely make it’s plunge on September 15th.

40th Anniversary of Voyager

  NASA On September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 was launched on a mission to explore where nothing had flown before. First on its journey were Jupiter and Saturn and it is currently exploring interstellar space. Its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, visited Uranus and Neptune and is now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, called […]

Alien Seekers Report Repeated Radio Bursts

Breakthrough Listen – a global astronomical initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, launched in 2015 by Internet investor Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking used the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to observe the bursts from the mysterious distant object known as FRB 121102.

Water on TRAPPIST 1 Planets?

Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The results suggest that the outer planets of the system might still harbor substantial amounts of water. This includes the three planets […]

Meet Richard, a NASA Solar System Ambassador

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Richard Stember is a NASA Solar System Ambassador volunteer who shares his passion for space with the public. Is this something that would interest you? You can apply to be an ambassador, too! For more information about NASA’s Solar System Ambassadors program, visit https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/ssa/home… .  

THE ECLIPSE IS TODAY!

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NASA at Saturn: Cassini’s Grand Finale

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory   The final chapter in a remarkable mission of exploration and discovery, Cassini’s Grand Finale is in many ways like a brand new mission. Twenty-two times, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will dive through the unexplored space between Saturn and its rings. What we learn from these ultra-close passes over the planet could […]