Tag Archives: NASA

Hubble Sees a Cluster of Red, White, and Blue

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Frank Cisco

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. via NASA https://ift.tt/3wa5lrz

Chandra Turns Up the Heat in the Milky Way Center

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Frank Cisco

This 2004 image was produced by combining a dozen Chandra observations made of a 130 light-year region in the center of the Milky Way. via NASA https://ift.tt/3hsUGTu

Picturing Our Solar System’s Asteroid Belt

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Frank Cisco

Today is International Asteroid Day! via NASA https://ift.tt/3hBrsCf

Visualizing Quieter Supersonic Flight

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Frank Cisco

NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without producing sonic booms. via NASA https://ift.tt/3A7ndXk

Space Station Transits the Sun

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Frank Cisco

This composite image made from seven frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven onboard, in silhouette as it transits the Sun. via NASA https://ift.tt/3dmuKrx

Hubble Images a Dazzling Dynamic Duo

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Frank Cisco

A cataclysmic cosmic collision takes center stage in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/35NG4J8

Viewing Earth from the Space Station

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Frank Cisco

In this June 2021 image, our Sun’s glint beams off the Indian Ocean as the International Space Station orbited 269 miles above south of western Australia. via NASA https://ift.tt/3zWJyqk

NASA and ESA Astronauts Continue Installing Space Station Solar Arrays

Posted on June 22, 2021 by Frank Cisco

Spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough of NASA (left) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency worked to install new roll out solar arrays on the space station. via NASA https://ift.tt/3vMPNdk

Shane Kimbrough Helps Install Solar Array on Space Station

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Frank Cisco

NASA Expedition 65 astronaut Shane Kimbrough is pictured during the Friday, June 18, 2021, spacewalk. via NASA https://ift.tt/3wFLt0B

Galveston from Space

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Frank Cisco

On Monday, June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom. That day of liberation became known as Juneteenth. via NASA https://ift.tt/3xqL5ms