Countdown to Pluto
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.
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Hubble Spots Spiral Bridge of Young Stars Linking Two Ancient Galaxies
A Hubble space Telescope photo of an unusual structure 100,000 light years long yields new insights into the formation of stellar superclusters.
A Spasmodic Active Region on the Sun…
Ol' Sol has been putting on a show lately, with a dazzling variety of dozens of spurts and eruptions and an equally dazzling magnetic display known as coronal rain.
Death by Black Hole in a Small Galaxy?
A bright, long duration flare may be the first recorded event of a black hole destroying a star in a dwarf galaxy. Two independent studies indicate 'death by a black hole.' NASA.gov. reports.
Climate Conditions Determine Amazon Fire Risk–The Threat of ‘Understory’ Fires
'Understory' fires are destroying more of the Amazon rainforest than is being lost through deforestation, NASA scientists have determined.
Farming Change Agent Larry Jacobs Shares Vision on Sustainable and Organic Ag, Part 1
An interview with sustainable agriculture pioneer LARRY JACOBS, plus a NASA study provides new evidence of global warming's impact on global rainfall.
Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption
Documenting a spectacular solar eruption and the Hubble Telescope's sighting of the remains of a star gone supernova. There's life out there.
NASA’S Hubble Provides First Census of Galaxies Near Cosmic Dawn
DISTANT WORLDS--Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago.
NASA’S Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by Ancient Starlight
Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever shone. Also, a review and free download…
‘Cry’ of a Shredded Star Heralds a New Era for Testing Relativity
'This gives us an opportunity to explore the nature of black holes and test Einstein's relativity at a time when the universe was very different than it is today,'
Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and…