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NASA ISS Space to Ground Weekly Report - 9 October 2015
SpaceRef - 10 Oct 2015 11:43
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....
Hubble Sees an Aging Star Wave Goodbye
SpaceRef - 10 Oct 2015 02:50
This planetary nebula is called PK 329-02.2 and is located in the constellation of Norma in the southern sky....
Shield Volcano Tharsis Tholus As Seen By ISRO Mars Orbiter
SpaceRef - 10 Oct 2015 20:22
This MCC image, taken on September 03, 2015 at an altitude of 6144 km with a resolution of 320 m, shows an intermediate sized shield volcano known as Tharsis Tholus....
Hidden Supermassive Black Holes of the Universe --"A Huge Number Exist" (Weekend Feature)
The Daily Galaxy - 10 Oct 2015 17:11
The NASA/Chandra X-Ray Observaory image above shows two very visible supermassive black holes at the center of galaxy 3C 75, orbiting each other in a binary system. Recently, however, astronomers have found evidence for ...
SyFy Channel's 'The Expanse' App Lets You Fly By Spaceships in 3D
SPACE.com - 10 Oct 2015 16:01
Fans at New York Comic-Con got an immersive look into the new SyFy Channel TV show "The Expanse" with a Google-Cardboard-powered 3D tour of the show's spectacular spaceships to take home.
Earth from Space: Azore Islands, Portugal
SpaceRef - 10 Oct 2015 16:00
This Sentinel-1A radar image was processed to depict water in blue and land in earthen colours. It features some of the Azore islands about 1600 km west of Lisbon, including the turtle-shaped Faial, the dagger-like Sao J...
My Favorite Martian
Bad Astronomy - 10 Oct 2015 15:30
What would it be like to walk across the surface of Mars? Go watch The Martian, and find out. During a lot of the movie, it really felt like I was watching events unfold on the Red Planet. The scenery and photography wer...
NASA International Space Station On-Orbit Status 8 October 2015
SpaceRef - 10 Oct 2015 11:34
Payload controllers are exploring why two Cubesats were unable to deploy this week from the Kibo lab module so they can be released later....
Antarctic Dry Valleys Helped Scientists Understand a Wet Mars
SpaceRef - 10 Oct 2015 03:29
The recent announcement of evidence of flowing, liquid water just below the Martian surface made headlines across the globe....
India-Pakistan Borderlands at Night As Seen From Orbit
SpaceRef - 10 Oct 2015 02:48
Clusters of yellow lights on the Indo-Gangetic Plain reveal numerous cities large and small in this astronaut photograph of northern India and northern Pakistan....
Great Scott! 'Back to the Future' Documentary to Bring Back Our Favorite Time Machine
SPACE.com - 10 Oct 2015 00:21
Where they're going, they won't need roads: a new documentary spotlighted at New York Comic-Con examines the making of the "Back to the Future" trilogy and its 30-year impact on pop culture and society.