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ISS Change of Command as Russian American Crew readies Earth return

ISS Station Commander Jeff Williams, from NASA, handed over command of the massive orbiting outpost to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotev, in a formal ceremony early today (Wed, March 17) in preparation for the return to earth of two crew members early Thursday. The ISS population will be reduced to a crew of three until [...]

STS-134 Does Star Trek with New Poster

I love the crew posters that NASA has been creating lately, and this one is especially cool. If you are a Star Trek fan, you likely will recognize the pose that Commander Mark Kelly and his crew are assuming. If not, take a look below. (...)Read the rest of STS-134 Does Star Trek with [...]

Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes

The Spitzer Space Telescope has found what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. "We have found what are likely first-generation quasars, born in a dust-free medium and at the earliest stages of evolution," said Linhua Jiang of the University of Arizona, Tucson, lead author of a [...]

Answer to Universe Puzzle No. 5 Now Posted

I've now posted the answer in the original post. Check back next week for another Universe Puzzle!© Jean Tate for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags:Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

Where In The Universe #96

It's time once again for another Where In The Universe Challenge. Test your visual knowledge of the cosmos by naming where in the Universe this image was taken and give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft responsible for this picture. Post your guesses in the comments section, and check back on later [...]

Planck Reveals Giant Dust Structures in our Local Neighborhood

Dust has never looked so beautiful! This new image from the Planck spacecraft shows giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our galaxy. The image spans about 50 degrees of the sky, showing our local neighborhood within approximately 500 light-years of the Sun. “What makes these structures have these particular shapes [...]

Beautiful Cosmic Barbeque Pit

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE has been a busy spacecraft since its launch on Dec. 14, 2009. It has found asteroids and comets, and now has found a cosmic barbeque pit. Well, not really, but the green material in the cloud of gas and dust surrounding the Berkeley 59 cluster is [...]

You Too Can Find Missing Russian Spacecraft

On Monday, NASA released the complete set of science data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera's first six months of observations, consisting of more than 100,000 lunar images. Straight away, Phil Stooke from the University of Western Ontario began scanning the images to help find a "missing" Russian rover on the lunar surface, the [...]

updated 11-Feb-2007 3:50 PM