Latest Blog Posts for Space info by Armos

• Launching Our Dreams: A Shuttle Retrospective
  on Jul 7, 2011 in Uncategorized
  A tribute to NASA’s Space Shuttle Program and its 30 year history.
• Most Distant Quasar Found
  on Jul 1, 2011 in Uncategorized ESO NACO Quasar VISIR VLT
  Using the VISIR instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have imaged a complex and bright nebula around the supergiant star Betelgeuse in greater detail than ever before. This structure, which resembles flames emanating from the...
• Next Mars Rover in Action
  on Jun 25, 2011 in Uncategorized Curiosity Mars Rover
  A narrated play-by-play of Curiosity’s entry, descent, and landing on Mars!
• NASA’s Chandra Finds Massive Black Holes Common in Early Universe
  on Jun 23, 2011 in Uncategorized
  Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more a...
• First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun
  on Feb 7, 2011 in Uncategorized Entire Sun NASA STEREO
  February 6, 2011: It’s official: The sun is a sphere. On Feb. 6th, NASA’s twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star—front and back. “...
• Kepler Discovers Its First Rocky Planet
  on Jan 16, 2011 in Uncategorized
  NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is b...
• Going Supernova
  on Jan 14, 2011 in Uncategorized Galaxy Milky Way NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Supernova
  While searching the skies for black holes using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered in its own dust. In this artist’s rendering, an outer shell of gas and dust — which erupted...
• An astronomer says the Star of Bethlehem was Jupiter.
  on Jan 7, 2011 in Uncategorized astronome Jupiter Star of Bethlehem University of Texas
  John J. Miller If the Star of Bethlehem were to appear in the sky tonight, you probably wouldn’t even notice it. It wasn’t a blazing comet, an exploding supernova, or any of the other spectacular celestial events people in search of a nat...
• So You Think You Can Solve a Cosmology Puzzle?
  on Jan 3, 2011 in Uncategorized Albert Einstein astronomy Cosmology NASA
  Scientists challenge other scientists with a series of galaxy puzzles Cosmologists have come up with a new way to solve their problems. They are inviting scientists, including those from totally unrelated fields, to participate in a grand competition...
• ACAT Ground Collision Avoidance Flight Tests Over
  on Jan 3, 2011 in Uncategorized ACAT Auto GCAS NASA
  NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center has concluded flight tests of an Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS) under the joint U.S. Air Force/NASA F-16D Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology, or ACAT, project. The project is d...

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