The International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Sunday, November 10, 2013

EXPEDITION 38 GOES INTO SPACE


FROM:  NASA 
Expedition 38 Lifts Off

The Soyuz TMA-11M rocket is launched with Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency onboard, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Nov. 6 in the U.S.). Tyurin, Mastracchio, and, Wakata will spend the next six months aboard the International Space Station.  Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.


Monday, November 4, 2013

Mission accomplished!

Mission accomplished!

Sunday, November 3, 2013

RADIATION PLUMES


FROM:  NASA

3C353: Giant Plumes of Radiation
Jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can transport huge amounts of energy across great distances. 3C353 is a wide, double-lobed source where the galaxy is the tiny point in the center and giant plumes of radiation can be seen in X-rays from Chandra (purple) and radio data from the Very Large Array (orange).
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Tokyo Institute of Technology/J.Kataoka et al, Radio: NRAO/VLA