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June 16, 2011
On the left, SDO AIA image at the wavelength of 131 Angstrom observing the Sun’s atmosphere at a temperature of about ten million degree. The magnetic rope is seen as the thick looped structure ...
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June 16, 2011
This sequence of images begins with a large optical image of the southern sky. The view zooms into the 4-million-second exposure of the Chandra Deep Field South, and then an optical and infrared ...
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June 16, 2011
This animation shows an artist’s impression of a distant galaxy and its hidden black hole found in an epoch when the Universe was less than one billion years old.
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June 15, 2011
This animation of GOES-13 satellite imagery begins at 17:45 UTC (1:45 p.m. EDT) to 23:45 UTC (7:45 p.m. EDT) and shows the line of storms progressing from west to east that generated three ...
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June 15, 2011
GOES-11 data was compiled into an animation by the NASA GOES Project at NASA Goddard that shows the end of Adrian. The animation runs from June 11 at 1300 UTC (9 a.m. EDT) to June 13 at 1300 UTC ...
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June 14, 2011
This movie shows surface details beginning to resolve as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft closes in on the giant asteroid Vesta. The framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the images ...
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June 14, 2011
Young children may experience finger and wrist pain from using mobile phones and gaming devices for long periods of time.
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June 11, 2011
ESA’s small satellite Proba-2 was watching as a medium class M2.5 solar flare took place on 7 June 2011.  credit: ESA
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June 11, 2011
The Aquarius satellite successfully launches into space.  credit: NASA
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June 10, 2011
This animation includes visible and infrared imagery from GOES-13 that runs from June 4, 2011, at 1:45 p.m. EDT to June 6, 2011, at 10:45 a.m. EDT and shows the ash plume from the Puyehue-Cordón ...
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June 10, 2011
Some professionals think it’s just an ego boost, and nothing more.
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June 09, 2011
This ESOcast introduces the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO’s Paranal Observatory. This new telescope has just made its first release of impressive images of the southern ...
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June 09, 2011
This zoom sequence starts with a broad panorama of the central parts of the Milky Way. We then gradually close in on one of the bright regions of dust and gas where new stars are forming. In the ...
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June 09, 2011
Newly released video shows the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex over the last decade. The video was shot by European Space ...
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June 09, 2011
Apps are a great tool for staying healthy; which ones are best?
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June 08, 2011
The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a substantial coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7 that is visually spectacular. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back ...
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June 04, 2011
It’s been more than a year since NASA has heard from Mars rover Spirit. The agency says it may be time to say "thanks and farewell." credit: NASA
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June 02, 2011
This sequence starts with a view of the southern part of the Milky Way. As we zoom in we can first see the globular star cluster NGC 6752 and then the spiral galaxy NGC 6744, lying about 30 ...
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May 26, 2011
In a speech to Congress 50 years ago today, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to send a man to the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of that decade. ...
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May 25, 2011
This video is a short biography of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was the first man to step foot on the Moon.  credit: Buzz Aldrin
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