NASA Release: Suomi NPP Captures Night View of U.S. Before Hurricane Sandy's Landfall

Axis Hurricane Sandy made a historic landfall on the New Jersey coast during the night of October 29, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NASA / NOAA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured this nighttime view of the storm. This image provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a composite or verschillende satellite passes over North America jobs 18 hours before Sandy's landfall.

Discovered the most rapidly rotating superdense star

Scientists have found evidence of what may be the fastest moving pulsar. During the observation using three different telescopes - NASA's X-ray Observatory "Chandra", ESA XMM-Newton, located in space, and a radio telescope Parks in Australia.

X-ray observations, "Chandra" and XMM-Newton were combined with infrared data of the project 2MASS optical data and digital images of the sky.

Canada has produced a prototype for future Mars rovers

Canadian designers are developing now several models of robots on wheels, to help astronauts learn the satellite of the Earth and other planets in our solar system. "Much of the work on the Moon and Mars will be related to the study of geology and drilling," - said Leclerc, adding that Canada is just in the technology of mining and mining has gained a lot of experience.

"The U.S. space agency - NASA has already shown interest in our prototype, offering complete them for a particular space missions, "- he said.

Investigated such a supernova in 1604

Ray space telescope NASA Chandra, began to study the outstanding traces of an antique supernova explosion, which he observed by Io Gunn Kepler .

For the first time, a mention about this supernova are dated 1604. When the night sky is a new star in the place where previously there was none. This event recorded many of the astronomers of the time, including Johannes Kepler.

The universe is increasing, what threats the Earth

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that the astronomers who work with the Space Telescope, "Spitzer", were able to conduct a more accurate calculation of the rate of increase in the history of astronomy. In other words, this swiftness is called the Hubble constant.

We live on a small planet Earth, but this does not preclude our interest in the rest of the world. But to know the size of this huge, compared to us, the world, to find out what the age and expansion rate of the universe has. More recently, you can also add the concept of "acceleration of the expansion." But the accelerated expansion of the universe, you can still stick to the linear Hubble law.

Mars-500, space mission for 500 days

Teams of astronauts may soon start work on the International Space Station is not for 6 months, as before, and for the year, according to the news agency RIA Novosti.

First annual expedition will be experimental and will not until 2015 to carry out a test mission will select two players - one a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut. If all goes well, than will be considering a one-year term for expeditions to the ISS on a regular basis.

NASA prepared to tackle asteroid

You say that again smacks of Hollywood, but American scientists continue to practice in an attempt to find ways of fighting such space objects like asteroids. One of the latest developments in this direction was the project hypersonic interceptor for asteroids (HAIV). This project was born in the depths of the institution as a research center of reflection asteroids (in the U.S. there is such), working at the University of Iowa. The program itself is implemented as part of a large research program of NASA.

Hubble Telescope detected the farthest galaxy and never before seen

The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what is considered the most distant galaxy ever observed a time travel of 13,700 million light years, when our universe was only 500 million years, said Wednesday the space agency NASA.

The image of the galaxy, a red spot in the middle of a huge group of young galaxies, represents the first time the Hubble scrutinizes the border known as the cosmic Dark Age, when the expanding universe went from being a big void to cluster galaxies, stars and gas giant clusters.

NASA discovers two planets around a star cluster

U.S. scientists have found indication for the first time that there are planets that can form and survive around stars similar to the sun regardless of forming part of dense clusters of stars, NASA announced.

Astronomers discovered two orbits similar to Jupiter in the Beehive Cluster, a group of about 1,000 stars that seem to swarm around a common center.

"This has been a great puzzle for planet hunters," said Sam Quinn, a doctoral student in Astronomy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and author of the paper describing the results.

Dawn has the Giant Asteroid Vesta Departed

Dawn Mission Status Report

PASADENA, Calif. - Mission controllers received confirmation NASA's Dawn spacecraft that has escaped from the gentle gravitational grip of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn is now officially on its way to its second destination, the dwarf planet Ceres.

Dawn departed from Vesta at about 11:26 pm PDT on Sept... 4 (2:26 am EDT on Sept.. 5). Communications from the spacecraft via NASA's Deep Space Network That confirmed the departure and the spacecraft is now traveling Toward Ceres.

NASA's Kepler fined out Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars

Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has exposed multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. This system, Known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4.900 light-years from Earth in the group Cygnus.

This exposure confirm that more than one planet can form and persist in the stressful dominion of a binary star and Demonstrates the diversity of planetary systems in our galaxy.

NASA's WISE Survey discover Millions of Black Holes

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has escort to a newfound bonanza of supermassive black holes and galaxies called extreme hot dogs, or dust-obscured galaxies. From the telescope have millions of dusty Revealed black hole candidates crosswise the universe and even dustier About 1.000 objects thought to be among the brightest galaxies ever found. These powerful galaxies, which burn brightly with infrared light, are nicknamed Hot Dogs.

NASA Curiosity Rover Begins Trek Eastbound on Martian Surface

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has set off from its surrounding area landing on a trek to a science destination about a quarter mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill.

The rover drove eastward About 52 feet (16 meters) on Tuesday, its 22nd Martian day after landing. This third drive was longer than Curiosity's first two drives combined. The previous drives tested the mobility system and positioned the rover to examine an area scoured by exhaust from one of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft engines That Placed the rover on the ground.

NASA can handle their robots in 3D

NASA today unveils an application to learn how to handle some of their robots in 3D, as "Curiosity", which will land on Mars on 6 August.

The application is available for free for iPhone and iPad.

"Spacecraft 3D" uses animations to show how they can maneuver and manipulate the external components of the ship.

You know what astronauts were on the Apollo 10, 42 years ago?

On a day like today but 42 years ago, NASA launched the mission to the Moon Apollo 10 manned spacecraft manned by U.S. astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan in what would be the mission prior to the first descent of humans on the lunar surface. In an eight-day mission, astronauts traveled to the moon and inserted into orbit. Its main purpose was to test the lunar module operation in a similar exercise of descent to only 10 km altitude of the lunar surface without reaching land. Would also take hundreds of photographs of the candidate sites to land on the moon the following ships.

NASA team train the face of a man trip to an asteroid

A NASA team is absorbed in an underwater base positioned in the Florida Keys that recreates the spatial conditions, in order to train the face of a man trip to an asteroid in 2025. According to a statement released today by NASA, this team lead and two days under the water and continue until a total of twelve days. Their activities can be viewed via the Internet in real time and through social networks like Twitter.

NASA arranged to watch the transit of Venus until 2117

NASA and other EU institutions are arranged to watch the transit of Venus between 5 and 6 June, with dozens of activities to capture the best images from this moment not ensue again until 2117. The transit occurs when Venus passes directly between Earth and the Sun, which will see the planet as a tiny dot gliding slowly across the sun king, a phenomenon that was seen by astronomers as Galileo Galilei. Scientists from the sixteenth and seventeenth observed transits of Mercury and Venus, the two planets "inside", to measure the distance from Earth to the Sun in an effort to estimate the size of our solar system.

NASA sends a theme song of The Beatles into space

The British group The Beatles, to celebrate 40 years of song cross-ways the Universe, NASA sent into space the aforesaid song through a network of antenna. Through him also shall the odd message of Paul McCartney: "compliments to the aliens." The U.S. space agency is planning to launch tomorrow as another feat in the day he meets a half century of space activities.Also commemorate the 45th anniversary of the creation of the Deep Space Network, with whose antennas installed worldwide researchers study the universe.

AROUND TWO SUNS THRIVE NASA TELESCOPE TO FIND PLANETS

Using the Spitzer Space Telescope NASA astronomers have observed that planetary systems - dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets - are so abundant in double star systems as single stars in systems such as ours. Since more than half of all stars are twins, or binaries, the finding suggests that the universe is full of planets with two suns. Sunsets on some of those worlds would resemble that of Luke Skywalker's planet, Tatooine, where two fiery balls dip below the horizon one by one.

Beyond the Earth Asteroid

This asteroid, discovered recently, passed over our planet early on May 28, 2012, about 350,000 miles.

Yesterday, the asteroid 2012 KP24, flew past Earth at only a tenth of the distance of the Moon.

According to NASA, there was not any danger of collision with Earth, but it was an ideal time for many astronomers and amateurs, who missed the opportunity to photograph this large rock, estimated was about 26 meters.