Month: August 2015
Schlieren Images Reveal Supersonic Shock Waves
Air-to-air Background Oriented Schlieren images provide a unique glimpse of the shape of shock waves created…
Andreas ready for launch
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will spend ten days in space as part of his ‘iriss’ mission…
Andreas ready for launch
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will spend ten days in space as part of his ‘iriss’ mission…
Andreas ready for launch
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will spend ten days in space as part of his ‘iriss’ mission…
Andreas ready for launch
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will spend ten days in space as part of his ‘iriss’ mission…
The Lonely Mountain
NASA's Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles…
Gaia’s first Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
This graph shows the absolute luminosity of almost one million stars observed by Gaia as a…
Gaia’s asteroid detections
As it scans the sky surveying stars in the Milky Way galaxy, Gaia has also detected…