Space News
Mars at Closest Earth Approach Over SpaceX Recovered Falcon 9 at Sea - Photo
Universe Today - 5 Jun 2016 06:23
PORT CANAVERAL, FL - As you may have heard its Mars opposition season. What you may not have heard is that Mars made its closest Earth approach high in the nighttime Sunshine State skies coincidentally at the same time a...
New 'Species' of Enormous Spiral Galaxies --"Dwarf the Milky Way, Shockingly Gone Unnoticed" (Weekend Feature)
The Daily Galaxy - 5 Jun 2016 16:12
"We have found a previously unrecognized class of spiral galaxies that are as luminous and massive as the biggest, brightest galaxies we know of," said Patrick Ogle, an astrophysicist at the Infrared Processing and Analy...
NASA's 1st Lunar Landing Happened 50 Years Ago
SPACE.com - 5 Jun 2016 14:00
An epic digital imaging project is underway to bring Surveyor 1's moon pictures to light again, after decades of lying around on film reels.
This Week at NASA: Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) and More
SpaceRef - 5 Jun 2016 15:43
Activities aboard the International Space Station during the first week in June included continued operations with the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) - which was fully expanded on May 28....
Take A Look Beneath Jupiter's Clouds
Universe Today - 5 Jun 2016 20:31
[embed]s://.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxndu3hVg2o[/embed]Jupiter's Great Red Spot is easily one of the most iconic images in our Solar System, next to Saturn's rings. The Great Red Spot and the cloud bands that surround it are...
NASA ISS Space to Ground Weekly Report - 3 June 2016
SpaceRef - 5 Jun 2016 20:00
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....
What Causes Stripey Clouds?
Bad Astronomy - 5 Jun 2016 15:00
Sixty Symbols is a great effort: A group of professional scientists of various stripes putting out short videos, each one tackling a different symbol in science. ∆F, -K, kg... each one is explained clearly and simply b...