Tagged: nasa

New Horizons

Ready to explore Pluto? NASA’s New Horizons – the fastest spacecraft ever created – will speed past Pluto on July 14, 2015, beaming back high resolution photos (and invaluable data) of the dwarf planet’s...

Live Video Feed from ISS

This is a live video feed from the International Space Station. Watch long enough and you can see a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes. The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the...

The Color of the Sun

NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio made a video of the sun at different wave lengths. [via boingboing]

Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun

Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun

Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex...

Yo-Yos in Space

Yo-Yos in Space

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit uses his off-duty time to practice his microgravity yo-yo skills. [Via boingboing]

Tour of the Moon

Tour of the Moon

Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views...

The Moon in 2012

The Moon in 2012

Folks at the NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio created this amazing animation showing our view of the Moon over the entire year of 2012 with time resolution of *one hour*! The tipping, tilting, and...

NASA Engineer Reveals Secret Of Space Cats

NASA Engineer Reveals Secret Of Space Cats

Brant Widgeon is an Astronomical Image Enhancement Engineer. Many people are surprised to hear everything that goes into making the beautiful celestial images that have brought us so much awe and wonder. One of...

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