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First Direct Image Of An Exoplanet? |
| A team of European and US astronomers think they've taken the first direct image of a planet orbiting another star about 230 light-years away. Until now, planets have been discovered because of the effect they have on their parent star - they haven't been "seen" directly - Universe Today |
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Genesis Data 'Retrieved Intact' |
| Material has been found still intact inside the crashed Genesis space capsule, say Nasa scientists. Experts said on Friday they hoped the mission to gather solar wind
particles could still be largely successful - BBC NEWS
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Cassini Discovers Ring And One, Possibly Two, Objects At Saturn |
| Scientists examining Saturn's contorted F ring, which has baffled them since its discovery, have found one small body, possibly two, orbiting in the F ring region, and a ring of material associated with Saturn's moon Atlas - SpaceDaily |
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Oxygen Generator Fails On Space Station |
| The main oxygen generator on the International Space Station has failed, but NASA said Thursday there is plenty of oxygen on board to sustain the station's inhabitants for the foreseeable future. A backup generator and other methods of oxygen production also are available to the crew should they be needed, the agency said - CNN.com
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Cassini Spacecraft Spies Saturn's Moon Iapetus |
| The dark material that coats one hemisphere of Saturn's moon Iapetus is very dark, as these two processed views of the same image demonstrate - Spaceflight Now |
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Astronomers Watch A Black Hole Eat A Meal |
| Astronomers from the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) in Cambridge, England have watched a bundle of matter at the heart of a galaxy 100 million light-years away as it orbited a supermassive black hole four times on its way to being destroyed - Universe Today |
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Major Milestone For Detecting Life On Mars |
| "To detect life on Mars, we have to devise instruments to recognize it and design them in such a way to get them to the Red Planet most efficiently," said Dr. Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, a member of an international team designing devices and techniques to find life on Mars - SpaceDaily
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Mars May Have Had Large Sea Near Rover Landing Site |
| Spacecraft observations of the landing area for one of NASA's two Mars rovers now indicate there likely was an enormous sea or lake covering the region in the past, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study - Spaceflight Now |
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Scientists See Exotic Matter In Neutron Star |
| Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the universe. The measurement may lead to a better understanding of nature's building blocks - protons, neutrons and their constituent quarks - as they are compressed inside the neutron star to a density trillions of times greater than on Earth - SpaceDaily
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Dying Star Creates Fantasy-Like Sculpture Of Gas And Dust |
| In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings." - Spaceflight Now
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