NASA just revealed a new view of the Pillars of Creation. By using infrared light to craft the image instead of visible light, scientists were able to reveal baby stars that were hidden behind the gaseous, spectral columns.
A European space probe will soon launch with the specific mission of doing exactly what every child learns never to do—stare directly at the sun.
“I don’t think this is something we should consider normal in the 21st century,” says Holger Krag, the Head of Space Safety at ESA.
If you stare at the moon hard enough with a powerful telescope, you’ll notice something bizarre happening on the surface. Flashes of light will burst out momentarily, then vanish just as inexplicably fast. Dubbed transient lunar phenomenon (TLP), we’ve seen it over and over and over, without any real understanding for its cause.
Based on how much radiation a European spacecraft picked up on its way to the Red Planet, NASA and the ESA could greenlight a Mars mission under current guidelines—but just barely.
Representatives of NASA and Roscosmos announced an agreement to work together on venturing into deep space—but we’ll start pretty close to home.
Cassini is no more, but that doesn’t mean that we’ll stop exploring.
New photos from NASA’s HiRISE camera show the partial remains of the ESA’s Martian rover.
NASA’s Mars orbiter found the likely crash site of Europe’s Mars rover.
ESA is still analyzing data, but the lander is not communicating at all.
