The 'Flame Burns Bright in New WISE Image Horsehead nebula

The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation visible in the MOST Easily northern hemisphere winter evenings DURING.

A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the Flame candle-like lighting up a cavern nebula of dust. The Flame Nebula is part of the Orion complex, a turbulent star-forming area located near the constellation's star-studded belt.

The Russian Soyuz spacecraft ready for launch to the ISS

The Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M, with three cosmonauts aboard, is now on the platform of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ready for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) .

The device will be released tomorrow, Sunday at 02.40 GMT with 32 members of the expedition manned spacecraft :the crew is Russian Yuri Malenchenko (c), the American Sunita Williams (i) and Japan's Akihiko Hoshide (d).

Microsatellite transmits video from the stratosphere

For the first time an amateur way in Latin America, CETMAR Altata 1 microsatellite, launched from Sinaloa last week, and successfully transmitted live video images from the stratosphere.

The results of this project will be presented at the National Congress of Science and Technology of the Sea, to be held in Tuxpan, Veracruz, from 28 to 30 August next, as well as an International Astronautically Congress in Naples, Italy.