MessageToEagle.com – Pluto’s day is 6.4 Earth days long. The images were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera as the distance
MessageToEagle.com – Thousands of planetary nebulae are continuously observed and studied, but astronomers have long struggled to measure one of their key properties – their distance. Now, astronomers, based
MessageToEagle.com – Our Sun is a relatively quiet star that only occasionally releases solar flares or blasts of energetic particles that threaten satellites and power grids. However, in the
MessageToEagle.com – Expedition 46/47 prime crew members Timothy Kopra of NASA, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency and
MessageToEagle.com – The greatest secrets of the Universe are usually revealed when astronomers use the combined power of multiple telescopes to reveal the secrets of the Universe – and this image
MessageToEagle.com – Abraham Lincoln is best known for abolishing slavery and keeping the United States together through the Civil War, but he also helped the country become the scientific
MessageToEagle.com – University of Arizona researchers captured the first photo of a planet in the making, a planet residing in a gap in LkCa15’s disk – located in the Taurus
MessageToEagle.com – Robotic spacecraft may ride the solar wind toward interstellar space at unprecedented speeds a decade or so from now. Researchers are developing an “electric sail” (e-sail) propulsion
MessageToEagle.com – Take a look at a photo captured by MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. The instrument captured this scene on November 5, 2015. We see cloudy
MessageToEagle.com – A horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy has been discovered by astronomers using ESO’s VISTA survey telescope. By discovering
MessageToEagle.com – Solar flares are massive explosions of energy in the Sun’s atmosphere. Experts have warned that even a single ‘monster’ solar flare could cause up to $2 trillion
MessageToEagle.com – During an unprecedented 1-year mission to the International Space Station, scientists are studying how astronauts’ bodies respond to long-duration space travel. The human body is incredibly complex.
MessageToEagle.com – Using a novel technique, astronomers have detected thousands of stellar “pulses” in the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), located 53 million light-years from Earth in the constellation
MessageToEagle.com – New Horizons scientists present Pluto in beautiful rainbow colors. This false color image of Pluto was possible to obtain by using a technique called “principal component analysis”
MessageToEagle.com – Exoplanets give incredibly interesting insights about the conditions and weather patterns in different planetary systems. One such exoplanet is HD 189733b, which is among the most studied
First version of this article was originally published on January 16, 2012 MessageToEagle.com – Auroras on Earth are stunning to watch, but have you ever wondered what they
MessageToEagle.com – Researchers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for
MessageToEagle.com – A new exoplanet located only 39 light-years away has been discovered by a team of astronomers using the MEarth-South array, located at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in
MessageToEagle.com – A network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp has been revealed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity
MessageToEagle.com – On November 12, 1980, 35 years ago, Voyager 1 became the second spacecraft to flyby Saturn. Its main objectives were to conduct close-up studies of Jupiter and
MessageToEagle.com – An impressive cloud hovering over Titan’s south pole at an altitude of about 186 miles (300 kilometers) was first seen when Cassini’ camera imaged it in 2012.
MessageToEagle.com – This adorable and informative animation video shows how Rosetta and Philae are investigating a comet. It’s a must see! Rosetta tells us what she’s learned in her first
MessageToEagle.com – The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a
MessageToEagle.com – From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA’s New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week’s 47th Annual Meeting
MessageToEagle.com – This article is written in memory of one of the greatest minds ever – Carl Sagan. Today is namely the 81st birthday of Carl Sagan (1934-96),
