Space News
This Week at NASA: Dragon Leaves the Space Station and More
SpaceRef - 27 Aug 2016 14:25
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft left the International Space Station on August 26....
Milky Way's 'Lurking, Dormant Monster' --"Our Central Black Hole Currently Fails to Outshine a Single Star"
The Daily Galaxy - 27 Aug 2016 17:29
Like a massive, dormant volcano, the Milky Way's central black hole appears to be a sleeping monster. Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that "what goes into them does not come out," says Ave...
'Mars Spectacular' Is a Hoax; Red Planet Won't Look Like a Full Moon
SPACE.com - 27 Aug 2016 13:00
I cannot believe I'm writing yet another column concerning the infamous Mars Hoax, but indeed, more than a dozen years after it made its first appearance, it sadly has reared its ugly head in cyberspace once again.
NASA/Hubble: "For Far-Future Milky Way Civilizations Evidence of Big Bang and Evolution Will be Erased"
The Daily Galaxy - 27 Aug 2016 16:04
NASA's Hubble researchers say that future Earths are more likely to appear inside giant galaxy clusters (such as the massive cluster galaxy-cluster-macs-j0717 above) and also in dwarf galaxies, which have yet to use up a...
Goaturday
Bad Astronomy - 27 Aug 2016 15:00
Is Caturday still a thing? I don't care, because it's now Goaturday. That is my goat, Jack Burton.* He is one of four goats we have chez BA, the others being Sam, Batman, and Clayton Forrester. They are all fun and cute ...
Rare Close Encounter of Venus & Jupiter Tonight Won't Happen Again Until 2065
SPACE.com - 27 Aug 2016 13:20
Tonight (Aug. 27), look toward the western horizon just after sunset to see Venus and Jupiter get up close and personal, plus a parade of planets. No telescope required!
Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby
SpaceRef - 27 Aug 2016 23:39
NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600 m...
NASA probe set to make closest approach yet to Jupiter
Phys.org - 27 Aug 2016 22:53
NASA's Juno space probe on Saturday was set to pass the closest it will get to the planet Jupiter during the main phase of its planned mission to the gas giant, the US space agency's officials said.
NASA's Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby
PTTU - 27 Aug 2016 21:08
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: