Space & Spaceflight

Rare Photos of Saturn’s Aurorae Captured For The Last Time By Hubble

At first glance, I thought Mathmos has released a new mood light, but that glowing blue image is actually of Saturn, captured by the Hubble telescope. It’s a very rare photo, as both poles and rings are visible. You actually just make out the Northern Lights-like aurorae on both poles, which is apparently caused by…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

Zeroing In On the International Space Station

The Russian Space Agency has released this speeded up video of a Soyuz spacecraft approaching and docking in the International Space Station. It’s like Battlestar Galactica, but without phasers. Or Cylons. Or Vipers. Or Starbuck. Actually, it’s nothing like BSG. I like it anyway, although it makes me sad: Soon, they will be the only…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Falling Inside a Black Hole

Have you ever wondered how wicked and weird the Universe would look as you free fall into a black hole at nearly the speed of light? Wonder no more, my dear Alice, and play this video. The stars’ light gets distorted as you get closer to the black hole’s horizon. First, their light turns redder,…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

A Slightly Better View of the Orion Nebula

No doubt, you’ve seen Orion when stargazing. A spot on his belt that’s sometimes mistaken for a star is really the Orion Nebula. Here’s an ever-so-better better view, thanks to the 67-megapixel, infrared-sensitive VISTA telescope. [Full 341MB Version via Wired]

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: One Small Step Edition

In today’s Remainders: progress. Sort of. Openmoko’s WikiReader takes baby steps towards usability; a new sculpture series offers busts of the Darth Vader that could’ve been; an MSNBC slideshow sheds light on the photographic pursuits of ISS astronauts, and more. Wiki Wiki We first saw Openmoko’s single-purpose WikiReader back in October, and we weren’t exactly…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Have You Ever Seen a Lunar Rainbow?

This is not a rainbow. It’s a moonbow, an extremely rare atmospheric phenomenon caused by the near-full moon that it’s extremely hard to catch. So hard, in fact, that you can only see its colors thanks to long-exposure photography. It was captured by Wally Pacholka last January 20, at the Haleakala Crater on the Island…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

An HD Video Tour of the International Space Station

If you’re a huge space buff, you might not be surprised by anything in this video tour of the International Space Station. But it’s still great to just get a simple walkthrough of this incredible project and all its corners. Anyone else get a bit bit light-headed watching all those twists and turns? [CrunchGear]

Space & Spaceflight Rosa Golijan

Beautiful Planet Posters Are Space Geek Catnip

Ross Berens’ gorgeous planetary posters feature incredible artwork and real-deal factoids on all eight of our planets, plus our old friend Pluto. Space aficionados, you’ll want to check these out. [Cargo Collective via Kottke]

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

The Last Nighttime Launch of the Space Shuttle

If there’s something more spectacular than a space shuttle launch that’s a night shuttle launch. Sadly, the last one happened tonight. Happily, it was filmed in perfect high definition. Endeavour carries another last thing too: https://gizmodo.com/stay-awake-for-the-last-nighttime-shuttle-launch-ever-5465914 This is NASA’s last module for the space station. Called Tranquility, the 21-foot long, 14-foot wide module will be…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

One of the First Space Station Concepts Was Made of Brick

In 1869, Atlantic Monthly writer E. Everett Hale imagined what a primitive space station might look like. It involved a lot of brick. Given NASA’s looming cuts, it may very well be all they can afford in the present! Ha! NASA budget jokes! So topical, yet so sad. Anyway, there are a number of space…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Update: Final Space Shuttle Night Launch Scrapped Due to Clouds

Yeah, that brilliant flash of light you saw streaking through the dark sky last early this morning? Not the space shuttle making its last ever night time launch from Cape Canaveral. Unfortunately for you, the launch was postponed, possibly to Monday, and you were either drunk, stoned, both, or you were “visited” and you’re about…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Stay Awake for the Last Nighttime Shuttle Launch Ever

If you live anywhere on the East Coast, watch for the last ever nighttime shuttle launch. [Update: Launch has been delayed till tomorrow] Or you could wake up early, that works too. Either way, at 4:39 A.M. early tomorrow morning NASA will launch the Endeavor space shuttle, and it will be the last time it…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Obama Cancels Kennedy’s Dream

Once upon a time, a President thought that taking humans “to the Moon and the planets beyond” was not only good for the economy of the country, but also would push US technology decades beyond everybody’s else. He was right. That President was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Of course, he also wanted to go to the…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Astronaut Tweets Stunning Images of Earth From Orbit

The astronauts on the ISS sent their first tweet from space just a short time ago. Now they’ve upped their game, using Twitpic to send us breathtaking shots of significant locations all around the world. https://gizmodo.com/iss-astronauts-get-ultimate-wireless-network-send-firs-5454656 That picture up top? Mount Fuji, in Japan. These pictures here? See if you can guess: The astronauts are…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett

Most Detailed View of Pluto to Date

Oh Pluto, Pluto… You may not be a planet anymore, but that doesn’t mean we don’t love you. Even while you look like a big moldy ball of mud in this image capture by Hubble, the most detailed to date. And here I was, thinking Pluto was this big blue ice sphere only good to…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Robonaut2: NASA’s Red Shirt Who May One Day Rule the Fleet

Back in the 60s, astronauts had to compete with monkeys to make their way into space. Today, NASA and GM have developed a new trainable, expendable crew member. Its name is Robonaut2. (The original Robonaut, developed a decade ago, never got off the ground.) Ambidextrous and designed to use the same tools as humans, Robonaut2…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

New NASA Solar Spacecraft to Record Sun at IMAX Resolution

This is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly. Together with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, and the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, it will capture the Sun at IMAX resolution every ten seconds. They will travel together inside NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. After its February 2010 launch on top of an Atlas V rocket, the SDO will…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Hubble Detects Mysterious Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH

Hubble has discovered a mysterious X-shaped object traveling at 11,000mph. NASA says that P/2010-A2 may be a comet, product of the collision between two asteroids. Or a Klingon Bird of Prey. Either way, UCLA investigator David Jewitt is excited: Click above to see the full resolution image This is quite different from the smooth dust…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Earth’s Satellites, Visualized By Nation

As data visualization has become more popular, bad infographics have started to crop up more and more frequently. Thankfully, we can always rely on Michael Paukner to make very, very good ones. Here he shows the satellites orbiting our planet. Russia, as you might expect, has a whole lot of satellites that are no longer…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

The Most Heart-Wrenching Explanation Of The Mars Spirit Rover’s Life Yet

Addy and I are both weeping dusty red-colored tears in honor of the Spirit Rover’s new permanent surroundings after reading this xkcd chronicle of his poor little life. [xkcd]

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

Rare Photos of Saturn’s Aurorae Captured For The Last Time By Hubble

Zeroing In On the International Space Station

Falling Inside a Black Hole

A Slightly Better View of the Orion Nebula

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: One Small Step Edition

Have You Ever Seen a Lunar Rainbow?

An HD Video Tour of the International Space Station

Beautiful Planet Posters Are Space Geek Catnip

The Last Nighttime Launch of the Space Shuttle

One of the First Space Station Concepts Was Made of Brick

Update: Final Space Shuttle Night Launch Scrapped Due to Clouds

Stay Awake for the Last Nighttime Shuttle Launch Ever

Obama Cancels Kennedy’s Dream

Astronaut Tweets Stunning Images of Earth From Orbit

Most Detailed View of Pluto to Date

Robonaut2: NASA’s Red Shirt Who May One Day Rule the Fleet

New NASA Solar Spacecraft to Record Sun at IMAX Resolution

Hubble Detects Mysterious Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH

The Earth’s Satellites, Visualized By Nation

The Most Heart-Wrenching Explanation Of The Mars Spirit Rover’s Life Yet

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