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Outstanding Views of Mammoth Stars

Comments dhani — November 28, 2008 / 12:00 am

This recent image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. WR [...]

Saturn’s Mysterious Aurora

Comments dhani — November 27, 2008 / 10:47 am

This image of the northern polar region of Saturn shows both the aurora and underlying atmosphere, seen at two different wavelengths of infrared light as captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Auroras are caused by charged particles streaming along the magnetic field lines of a planet into its atmosphere. Particles from the sun cause Earth’s auroras. Many, [...]

The End of Phoenix Mission

Comments dhani — November 15, 2008 / 9:50 pm

After operating for more than five months, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased its communications with Earth controller. This marks end of almost six month of successful mission on red planet – nearly twice than expected. Mission engineers last received a signal from the lander on Nov. 2. Phoenix, in addition to shorter daylight, has encountered [...]

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