The Sky Tonight

July 03, 2013

Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2013
Its swift motion is captured in this time-lapse movie made from a sequence of pictures taken May 8, 2013, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the time the images were taken, the comet was 403 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The movies shows a sequence of Hubble observations taken over a 43-minute span and compresses this into just five seconds. The comet travels 34,000 miles in this brief video, or 7 percent of the distance between Earth and the moon. The deep-sp ... read more

Previous Issues

Jul 02

Jul 01

Jun 28

Jun 27

Jun 26

Cloud effect could increase number of possible life-supporting planets The climate influence of clouds could double the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars, U.S. scientists say. ... more		Astronomers Detect Three 'Super-Earths' in Nearby Star's Habitable Zone New observations of a star known as Gliese 667C have revealed a system with at least six planets, including a record-breaking three super-Earths orbiting in the star's "habitable zone" where liquid ... more		Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars Finding extrasolar planets has become so commonplace that it seems astronomers merely have to look up and another world is discovered. However, results from Gemini Observatory's recently completed P ... more
				It's a bug's life: Microbes to inherit the Earth Two billion years from now, an ever-hotter Sun will have cooked the Earth, leaving microbes confined to pockets of water in mountains or caves as the last survivors, a study said Monday. ... more		New camera yields clues to dramatic events on sun's surface British scientists say an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket has captured the sharpest images yet of the sun's outer atmosphere. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier Of Our Solar Bubble Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. ... more		Spiral galaxies like Milky Way bigger than thought Let's all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study by researchers ... more		Maintaining US space dominance requires rapid and reliable delivery of new systems Shield or Spark? The U.S. Golden Dome and the New Missile Arms Race Starcloud partners with Mission Space to protect orbital datacenters with real time space weather intelligence		NASA Launches Satellite To Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere w ... more
				Researchers call for rethinking efforts to prevent interplanetary contamination Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive-on Mars. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairen ... more		NASA launches satellite to study solar material The US space agency launched a satellite late Thursday to unlock the secrets of the Sun's lower atmosphere. ... more

Solar systems for home and business

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

NASA's Voyager 1 approaches outer limit of solar system The Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching the outer limit of the solar system but remains months or even years away from the farthest reach of the sun's magnetic pull, NASA said Thursday. ... more		A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and one of science's greatest mysteries is ho ... more		Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan's water struggles Year after northern Nigeria floods, survivors left high and dry Africa's path to low-carbon food security		1 star, 3 habitable planets A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Paul Butler, has combined new observations with existing data to reveal a solar system packed full of planets. The star Gliese 667C is orbited by between ... more
				Astronomers spy on galaxies in the raw A CSIRO radio telescope has detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old - less than a quarter of its current age. ... more		Launch Of Latest NASA Solar Mission Rescheduled To June 27 The launch of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is being delayed one day to 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Thursday, June 27, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ... more

Kerberos and Styx: Welcome to the Pluto System

New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan at Pluto

Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter

Researchers call for rethinking efforts to prevent interplanetary contamination

Cloud effect could increase number of possible life-supporting planets

It's a bug's life: Microbes to inherit the Earth

Astronomers Detect Three 'Super-Earths' in Nearby Star's Habitable Zone

Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars

1 star, 3 habitable planets

Opportunity's Improbable Anniversary

Opportunity Clocks Up 37 Kilometers Of Roving Mars

Dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission

	OU Physicists Develop Rationale for the Next-Generation Particle Collider A University of Oklahoma-developed theory provides the rationale for the next-generation particle accelerator-the International Linear Collider. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Ha ... more		Gartner trims global IT spending forecast for the year Market tracker Gartner on Tuesday trimmed its forecast of how much global businesses would spend this year on information technology, as less expensive tablets displace PCs at the workplace. ... more		Three planets in habitable zone of nearby star Gliese 667C is a very well-studied star. Just over one third of the mass of the Sun, it is part of a triple star system known as Gliese 667 (also referred to as GJ 667), 22 light-years away in the c ... more		Catch that bug! Spiders, beetles and worms might look creepy, but these creatures tell us a lot about biodiversity. Students are being challenged to count the creepy-crawlies' eyes, legs and antennae and compare th ... more

China sends 11th group of internet satellites into orbit for global constellation

NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space

NRL coronagraph on NOAA SWFO L1 will enhance space weather forecasts

First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered		Solar activity reduces radiation exposure in the air		Gas-giant exoplanets seen clinging close to their parent stars		Astronomers find three 'super-Earths' in nearby star's habitable zone		Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space
Messier 61 Looks Straight Into Hubble's Camera		Huge Chunk of Meteorite Located in Urals Lake		Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained		Trio of 'super Earths' in a star's habitable zone		Retirement for planet-hunting space probe

Study finds planets in habitable zone around a distant star

The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy

NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury

Solar Splashdown

Revealed - the mystery of the gigantic storm on Saturn

Particle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science research

Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole

Unusual supernova is doubly unusual for being perfectly normal

Colliding Galaxy Pair Takes Flight

Researchers unmask Janus-faced nature of mechanical forces with the Julich supercomputer

Antifreeze on Titan Could Affect Its Chances for Life

New method to distinguish between neighbouring quantum bits

NASA enlists public in hunt for major asteroids

Scientists use gravity, topographic data to find unmapped moon craters

New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

Australian team maps Moon's hidden craters

Cosmic Giants Shed New Light on Dark Matter

Exoplanet formation surprise

Biological Soil Crust Secrets Uncovered

Free Newsletters - Space - Defense - Environment - Energy

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2013 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement