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Ciao Italia! 26 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
The European heartland from Proba-2. Click for larger. Image: ESA A view of central and northern Italy, the Alps and a good bit of Europe from Proba-2′s X-cam. Proba-2 is of course one of those wond...
The Spitzer Space Telescope is 10-years old! 25 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
The IRIS Nebula as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope and the WISE spacecraft. Click for larger. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image from 24 May 2013 is one of the many taken by the now 10-year old S...
ISON and the Mars Flyby 24 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
A nice informative video from Science@NASA talking about the upcoming flyby of Mars from Comet ISON. One of the better ones out there so far. I wonder that the HiRISE camera on the MRO will be able t...
Cosmic Illusion 23 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Hubble’s cosmic illusion. Click for larger. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola It’s not the collision it looks like. The cloud of stars is an irregular galaxy PGC 16389 From wh...
Earth Directed CME 22 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
The SOHO LASCO C2 instrument captured this image of the Earth-directed CME. SOHO’s coronographs are able to take images of the solar corona by blocking the light coming directly from the Sun with an o...
ALMA and NTT and a Newborn 21 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
ALMA and NTT and a Newborn Star Click for larger. Credit:ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/H. Arce. Acknowledgements: Bo Reipurth The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the 3.58-meter New...
UFO Near Space Station? 20 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
No don’t leave this is true! Seriously. On 19 August an Unidentified Flying Object, well really a Unidentified Floating Object was seen by Expedition 36 crew member Chris Cassidy. Flying, floating it...
More on Nova Delphinus 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
I started out looking for a video to explain what a Nova is (easier said than done) is and I ran across this video of Nova Delphinus from the Slooh Space Camera. David Mihalic does a nice job explaini...
Nova Delphini 2013 18 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Nova Delphini 2013 on August 16, 2013 Image: Andrew Dumont A new “star” popped up late last week. I didn’t get an opportunity to take a look until night before last. I was glad I did too! First thi...
Landslides in a Crater 17 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Landslides can be seen in this Martian crater imaged by the Mars Express. Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Those how have followed me for a while know that I have a “thing” for boulders and cr...
