Astronomy

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope’s new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are colorful multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a [...]

When the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis released the Hubble Space Telescope to return to orbit, concluding the final astronaut mission to upgrade and repair Hubble, astronomy fans around the world rejoiced. Hubble, renewed and equipped with new cameras, would now return to its work of revealing the universe. But after the furor and high-profile [...]

Hubble Space Telescope has been launched by the shuttle Discovery in 1990. It released into an orbit 304 nautical miles above the Earth. Since then it’s circled Earth more than 97,000 times and provided more than 4,000 astronomers access to the stars not possible from inside Earth’s atmosphere. Hubble has helped answer some of science’s [...]

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium software for your computer. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL and displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc., just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. A new update for Stellarium, Ver. 0.10.1, has [...]

NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world’s most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before. Public can vote for one of six astronomical objects for Hubble to observe in honor of the International Year of Astronomy. The options, which Hubble has not [...]

NASA’s Glory satellite is the first mission dedicated to understanding the effects of particles in the atmosphere and the sun’s variability on our climate. It will allow scientists to measure airborne particles more accurately from space than ever before. The particles, known as “aerosols,” are tiny bits of material found in Earth’s atmosphere, like dust [...]

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission is the first step in NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon by 2020, and your name can reach there first. Cool, isn’t it? NASA invite everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can [...]

New higher-resolution lunar imagery and maps that include NASA multimedia content now are available on the Google Moon Web site. Updates include new content from the Apollo missions, including dozens of embedded panoramic images, links to audio clips and videos, and descriptions of the astronauts’ activities during the missions. The new content is overlaid on [...]

If you are Google Earth’s user and also stargazer, here is some good news for you. Google Earth 4.2 now launched with built in sky map feature. This ad-on, named Google Sky, can bring the view from Earth of the Sky on your monitor. Imagery for the system came from six research institutions including the Digital [...]