ISRO creates a space robot
Image credit: ISRO Here's something else that will eventually be launching from India. As some background, India does plan on sending humans to space by 2022 on their own rockets. Rather than send up animal proxies first, India has decided to take...
News from the latest GAO report on JWST
If you guessed that James Webb Space Telescope encountered another delay, you’re correct! The United States Government Accountability Office released its annual report on JWST yesterday. The big take-away: JWST most likely not going to launch in...
Year to Date Rocket Launch Statistics 2020/1/29
Here’s a running tally of a few spaceflight statistics for the year: Toilets burned up: 0Total satellites: 128Total launches: 6China: 3USA: 2France: 1
For every generation a hero: Remembering the Challenger Accident
If you are Gen X like me, you may hear that date, and remember exactly where you were in in 1986 when the Challenger lifted off but failed to reach orbit. 34 years ago today, during middle school lunch block on the East coast, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off...
A web of mystery
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in two wavelengths of infrared light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Later this week the Spitzer Space Telescope will be retired from use as NASA makes space in its budget and organizational structure...
Carnival of Space #648
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #648. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s...
A star playing vampire
An artist’s impression of a vampire system. Image Credit- NASA and L. Hustak (STScl) In new results from the Kepler data that are published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers, working with lead author R Ridden-Harper, find that a...
Kelt 9b: An Exoplanet in Meltdown
Artist’s rendering of a “hot Jupiter” called KELT-9b, the hottest known exoplanet.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Here's an update on Pamela’s favorite exoplanet: Kelt-9b. This hottest of hot Jupiters orbits a blue star – roughly an A0 or B9.5 star, that may be the largest...
A controversial bill
The funding for Spitzer and Kepler, and all other US missions, is determined by NASA, and as happens every year, mission teams are eagerly waiting to see what kind of a spending bill and policy directive comes out of the US Congress. Funding bills are proposed by the...
The Element of Surprise
Artistic image of the supernova explosions of the first massive stars that formed in the Milky Way. The star J0815+4729 was formed from the material ejected by these first supernovae. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) Studying the individual elements present in...
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