Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency photographed rare, high-altitude noctilucent or…
Month: June 2016
A mysterious ring of microwaves
Fifty years ago, astronomers discovered a mystery. They called it Loop I. Today, we still have…
Air conditioning goes green
The ingenuity of four space engineers has created a zero-emission air-conditioning system that doesn’t pollute our…
Jan Woerner with ESA astronauts
Jan Woerner, ESA Director General, with Luca Parmitano, André Kuipers, Ewald Reinhold, Thomas Reiter, Jean-François Clervoy…
Recurrent CH HSS causing geomagnetic storms
A recurrent, negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) has hit Earth's magnetic field…
French schools to talk to ISS
ARISS-F and AMSAT-F have announced the 13 French schools that have been selected for amateur radio…
Hubble Rocks with a Heavy-Metal Home
This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The…
Hubble Rocks with a Heavy-Metal Home
This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The…
Southern Maine
The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over southern Maine and part of New Hampshire in the northeast…
NASA and German Aerospace Center Extend SOFIA Cooperative Agreement
NASA and the German Aerospace Center, DLR, signed a renewal agreement on June2, 1016 to continue…