ESA astronaut André Kuipers returns to Earth

Six-month historical during PromISSe mission on the International Space Station, André Conducted over 50 scientific experiments in the world's only permanent microgravity laboratory.

Now that the orbital outpost is Fully Assembled, astronauts on the Space Station can devote more time to research.

André freezing blood samples

Hubble Sees Stars of Steam

Comparatively FEW galaxies POSSESS the far-reaching, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our galaxy the Milky Way home. In FACT, MOST of the Universe's galaxies look like small, amorphous clouds of steam. One of these galaxies is DDO 82, Captured here in an image from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Compared to the tiny THOUGH Milky Way dwarf galaxies still Contain Such Between A Few million billion stars and A Few.

DDO 82, Also known by the designation UGC 5692, is not without a hint of structure, however.

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.