NASA's Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
WASHINGTON — Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away.
Kickstarting Tiny Satellites into Interplanetary Space
ANN ARBOR—Two University of Michigan engineering professors are turning to the Kickstarter online community to help fund an interplanetary satellite mission.
Alaska Satellite Facility Debuts New Image Collection
A treasure trove of new images is now available through the Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center. The center has released a collection of newly processed digital imagery derived from 1978 synthetic aperture radar data, which was gathered by NASA’s Seasat satellite, the first mission dedicated to oceanographic research.
First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered
Cambridge, MA – All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars, including our Sun, are born in small, benign groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms that survive for billions of years as stellar clusters.