Space & Spaceflight

The Sun Eats a Comet

Maybe the little guy is safe. Maybe he went…around back? In any event, this senseless celestial murder was captured by SOHO today. The dirty deed gets done toward the end, coming from left to right. [Tom’s Astronomy Blog]

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

The First Space Boat Doesn’t Look Like a Boat at All

If Dr Ellen Stofan—team leader of the TiME mission—has her way, this will be the first nautical ship to sail across waters outside of planet Earth. Its name is the Titan Mare Explorer. If approved by NASA, the $425 million space boat would be launched in January 2016, water landing on the Saturn’s moon in…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

When Does the New Year Start On the International Space Station?

If you’re on terra firma, it’s pretty obvious when you need to grab your make-out partner. But how, asks Slate’s Explainer, do you know when to celebrate “when you’re hurtling through time zones at 17,500 miles per hour?” The obvious answer is something like: “you don’t pick a single moment, you celebrate once over each…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Mysterious Lunar Base Hole Explained

“We discovered a vertical hole on the moon,” says JAXA’s Junichi Haruyama. A mysterious tube so large and deep that it can shelter a future moon base. Until the creatures inside kill everyone, which is what happens in these cases. Before, they didn’t know what the hole’s origin was. Now they have a theory: According…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Year In Image Cache: 50 Shots That Wowed Us In 2009

The Internet offers an endless stream of cool pictures, but here’s a look at the best we’ve come across this year. Inside you’ll find images that amaze and amuse. Though #imagecache has only been around since March, we’ve collected some incredible images in these last nine months. Click through to the original posts for hi-resolution…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

27-Megapixel Saturn Panoramic Image Makes Perfect Widescreen Desktop Background

No, I’m not obsessed with Saturn. OK, I am obsessed with Saturn. But so is Time, who picked this deliciously crispy photo as one of the images of the year, revealing ring bumps as high as the Rocky Mountains. https://gizmodo.com/oh-hello-saturn-you-look-so-makey-outy-today-5437053 I’m not surprised, because it’s a truly unique moment, one that happens at Saturn’s equinox,…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Russia Considering Mission to Deflect Apophis

Russia’s Federal Space Agency may try to deflect Apophis, the 880-megaton asteroid that can bring hell to Earth (for comparison, the total power of the entire deployed US nuclear arsenal is around 1,400 Megatons). There’s only one problem. The possibility of Apophis hitting our home planet problem is extremely remote. When it passed by in…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Oh Hello, Saturn, You Look So Makey-Outy Today

This is a unique image of Saturn in natural color, exactly what you would have seen if you were riding the Cassini spacecraft—wearing your cowboy hat, knitted astronaut sweater, and Star Trek underpants—on November 4 2009. The image—released last week—was created by combining three exposures using red, green, and blue spectral filters, which results in…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Gigantic Lego Star Wars Rebel Frigate Is 4 Feet 6 Inches of Brickgasm

I remember spending countless hours playing Lucasarts’ X-Wing in college, painfully defending these Rebel frigates against TIE Fighters. Then I got TIE Fighter, and enjoyed destroying them. I wouldn’t have the heart to reduce to bricks the enormous Nebulon-B. The Lego version of the classic Nebulon-B Class rebel frigate Redemption is 4 feet and 6…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

The holiday hangover days between Christmas and New Year’s are sort of the year’s remainders to begin with, so it’s a perfectly appropriate time to check out these remainders: Google phones, space probes, misspellings, and one serious party popper. Google Phone On Wheels You can count on Engadget to watch the FCC website like a…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

This New Year’s Eve Brings the Rarest Blue Moon of All

Magical things happen once upon a blue Moon. And this Thursday we get a chance to find out just what those magical things as we watch the rare lunar event coincide with all the beautiful fireworks of New Year’s Eve. Blue Moon is the term applied to the second full Moon in a calendar month.…

Space & Spaceflight Rosa Golijan

Star Wars Like You Have Never Seen Them Before

This photo shows the power of image post-processing. It also shows that we are a tiny speck of nothingness in the middle of a fiery cosmic fluff. Enjoy the famous M51 galaxy, like you have never seen it before. https://gizmodo.com/voyager-unveils-the-mystery-of-the-interstellar-fluff-f-5433815 Click on the image to see it in high definition. Scientists have digitally reprocessed data…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

First Space-Based Sushi Construction Expedition Underway

“Rolling sushi in space” is one small step away from “measuring the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws.” You go get ’em, astronauts. Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi just launched from Baikonur Space Center, and is looking forward to being the first person to roll sushi in microgravity. Actual quote: Noguchi is bringing the raw materials…

Space & Spaceflight Dan Nosowitz

Voyager Unveils the Mystery of the Interstellar Fluff from Hell

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the fact that our solar system is crossing a cloud of interstellar hell. One that shouldn’t be there at all. Intergalactic plot to keep us isolated or cosmic event? Voyager got the answer. Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Nutcracker Dance of the Saturn Moons

Nothing is more Christmasy to me than the Nutcracker. OK, and Christmas pudding. Sooooo—nothing is more Christmasy than the Nutcracker and Christmas pudding—and probably eggnog. Maybe Christmas carols too. OK. Nutcracker, Christmas pudding, eggnog, carols, and Saturn’s moons. In space, nobody can see you dancing classical ballet while eating Christmas pudding dunked in eggnog while…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Here’s the Final Space Shuttle Mission Patch

The shuttle is retiring next year and, according to NASA, the remaining five flights may be the most difficult ever flown. That’s why they created this contest for the final space shuttle patch. One of these will be the winner: https://gizmodo.com/space-shuttle-final-flight-programmed-may-31-2010-5023085 Among other activities, they organized the final mission patch contest to make NASA employees…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

In Space, Even Sharp’s Solar Cells Can Generate Energy

Sharp’s made no secret of its interest in solar cell technology, but finally they’ve shown off the fruit of their efforts, the first solar cell capable of surviving in space. https://gizmodo.com/sharp-to-step-up-investment-in-solar-cell-technology-318699 As they’re actually flexible, they’ll be perfect for covering satellites and other space-bound objects, and are even able to be folded around tight corners.…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

10 Technologies to Thrust Us Through Deep Space

The Universe is big. Really, really big. And for Man to survive to see any stretch of it, He need move much faster. New Scientist has a rundown of 10 technologies of various promise. Brush up, nerds. [New Scientist]

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

NASA’s Space Camera of Choice: The Nikon D3s DSLR

Space: The final frontier—for Nikon, anyway. The camera company’s relationship with NASA has just got steamier, as they’re supplying 11 D3s DSLRs and seven AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses for their space photography. It’s not the first time they’ve worked together, with the Nikon Photomic FTN actually used on Apollo 15 back in 1971,…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

The First Picture of a Lake Outside Earth

See that shiny thing? That’s a lake. But it’s nowhere in Earth. It’s in Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, 80% more massive than Earth’s moon, and the only satellite with a dense atmosphere. According to Bob Pappalardo, from NASA: This one image communicates so much about Titan – thick atmosphere, surface lakes and an…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Sun Eats a Comet

The First Space Boat Doesn’t Look Like a Boat at All

When Does the New Year Start On the International Space Station?

Mysterious Lunar Base Hole Explained

The Year In Image Cache: 50 Shots That Wowed Us In 2009

27-Megapixel Saturn Panoramic Image Makes Perfect Widescreen Desktop Background

Russia Considering Mission to Deflect Apophis

Oh Hello, Saturn, You Look So Makey-Outy Today

Gigantic Lego Star Wars Rebel Frigate Is 4 Feet 6 Inches of Brickgasm

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

This New Year’s Eve Brings the Rarest Blue Moon of All

Star Wars Like You Have Never Seen Them Before

First Space-Based Sushi Construction Expedition Underway

Voyager Unveils the Mystery of the Interstellar Fluff from Hell

The Nutcracker Dance of the Saturn Moons

Here’s the Final Space Shuttle Mission Patch

In Space, Even Sharp’s Solar Cells Can Generate Energy

10 Technologies to Thrust Us Through Deep Space

NASA’s Space Camera of Choice: The Nikon D3s DSLR

The First Picture of a Lake Outside Earth

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