Tuesday, December 28, 2010

NASA TV!

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From now, you can relax and enjoy in NASA space TV channel on STARFAR!

Taking on Titan! Carrie Anderson

True life story of Carrie Anderson. When she was little girl she dreamed of becoming an astronomer. Now, as a space scientist at NASA GODDARD Space Flight Center, Carrie studies the atmosphere on Titan: one of Saturn's moons, second largest moon in the solar system, just behind moon Ganymede, Jupiter's follower. Let's see what Carrie want us to hear..

Monday, December 27, 2010

WISE Sees an Explosion of Infrared Light

WISE - Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer saw a circular rainbow around an exploded star. When massive stars die, they explode in BIG blasts, called supernovae, which send out shock waves. The shock waves sweep up and heat surrounding gas and dust, creating supernova remnants like the one pictured  here. The supernova in IC 433 happened somewhere between 5000 and 10000 years ago. More about this topic on www.nasa.gov.

This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

Sunday, December 26, 2010

New Topographic Map of Moon

Let's first see how LOLA (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter) works. LOLA sends a pattern of five laser pulses to the lunar surface, and computes distance and elevation by measuring how long takes for the pulses to return. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Meaney


Now check new topographic map comparing to an old one - much better!




Expedition 26 Holiday Message!

The Expedition 26 crew sends holiday greetings to Earth from the International Space Station. Watch...