Fremder Besucher am Nachthimmel - Asteroid auf dichtem Erdvorbeiflug

Fremder Besucher am Nachthimmel - Asteroid auf dichtem Erdvorbeiflug

Parte Mission-X: prepara il tuo corpo ed i tuoi tweet

Parte Mission-X: prepara il tuo corpo ed i tuoi tweet

Construire une base lunaire en impression 3D

Construire une base lunaire en impression 3D

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

ROBOTIC REFUELING MISSION DEMO

FROM: NASA

Robotic Refueling Mission Demo
Robots present certain advantages when working in the harsh environment of space. They're not susceptible to hunger, to sleepiness, or catastrophic injury for starters. They're also capable of highly precise, yet highly tedious tasks-- tasks that might otherwise consume huge resources and attention from already busy astronauts and ground controllers. In an important demonstration of new technical methodologies, NASA engineers will try to simulate the transfer of fuel from one vehicle to another, in space, with nothing but robots doing the physical work. Called the Robotic Refueling Mission, it's a major step on the road to developing a robust suite of essential robotic capabilities in space.

Credit-NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA VIDEO: STUDYING SMART FLUIDS IN SPACE

FROM: NASA

 ISS Update: Studying Smart Fluids in Space
Dr. Eric Furst from the University of Delaware joins NASA Public Affairs Officer Kelly Humphries in the Mission Control Center in Houston via telephone to discuss the InSpace-3 experiment taking place aboard the International Space Station

THE DEAD STAR

FROM: NASA
Sizzling Remains of a Dead Star
This new view of the historical supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light-years away, was taken by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Blue indicates the highest energy X-ray light, where NuSTAR has made the first resolved image ever of this source. Red and green show the lower end of NuSTAR's energy range, which overlaps with NASA's high-resolution Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Light from the stellar explosion that created Cassiopeia A is thought to have reached Earth about 300 years ago, after traveling 11,000 years to get here. While the star is long dead, its remains are still bursting with action. The outer blue ring is where the shock wave from the supernova blast is slamming into surrounding material, whipping particles up to within a fraction of a percent of the speed of light. NuSTAR observations should help solve the riddle of how these particles are accelerated to such high energies

X-ray light with energies between 10 and 20 kiloelectron volts are blue; X-rays of 8 to 10 kiloelectron volts are green; and X-rays of 4.5 to 5.5 kiloelectron volts are red.

The starry background picture is from the Digitized Sky Survey.


Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DSS

 

TDRS-K LAUNCH CLOSE-UP

FROM: NASA

Close-up Views of TDRS-K Launch

See multiple views of the Atlas V launch of the TDRS-K spacecraft

Quando os planetas se comportam como cometas

Quando os planetas se comportam como cometas

Rouler sans heurt à 300 km/h

Rouler sans heurt à 300 km/h

El nuevo satélite educativo de la ESA da un gran paso

El nuevo satélite educativo de la ESA da un gran paso

Luca a Star City

Luca a Star City

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

Viaggio nella fabbrica dei razzi spaziali.

Viaggio nella fabbrica dei razzi spaziali.

ESA's werkpaard drijvende kracht achter NASA's Orion-ruimteschip

ESA's werkpaard drijvende kracht achter NASA's Orion-ruimteschip