Posted by: mynebula on: November 24, 2009
A star’s spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object — called a neutron star — left behind by the explosion is seen spewing out a blizzard of high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as [...]
Posted by: mynebula on: November 21, 2009
Two key instruments from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May. Astronauts brought back the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC-2, and the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, or COSTAR, [...]
Posted by: mynebula on: November 18, 2009
Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn’s equinox. During this period, sunlight hits the rings edge-on and shines directly over the equator. The levitating icy particle clouds, which are known as [...]
Posted by: mynebula on: November 15, 2009
Credit for Hubble image: NASA, ESA, R. O’Connell (University of Virginia), B. Whitmore (Space Telescope Science Institute), M. Dopita (Australian National University), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee The spectacular new camera installed on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star [...]
Posted by: mynebula on: November 15, 2009
hi there .this is my first post on “my nebula” .i’m parisa and 14 years old .i love space and i want tobe going an astronaut .if you see my blog is simple I beg your pardon because my english is not wery well .sometime i read some news about space and i put it in my [...]
