Noordwijk, Netherlands at ESA
Paris (ESA) Apr 21, 2023 The current expansion of ESA's technical heart, nestled beside North Sea dunes on the Netherlands coast, as seen from the air. The European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, is ESA's single largest establishment and hub of Europe's space efforts. This is the place where European space missions are born, then guided through development while new technolo

Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
Last summer, metropolitan areas of Korea including Seoul were hit by an unprecedented heavy rainfall, which inundated various locations. Similarly, torrential downpours engulfed about one-third of Pakistan, leading to widespread flooding. New York State was not spared as it experienced heavy snowstorms in December of last year, with snowfall of more than one meter. These events underscore

San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
Scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) led a team in the unique Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) experiment to image the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, during a short solar eclipse on the opposite side of the Earth. Using four platforms in the northwest corner of Australia, the team successfully observed the million-degree solar corona at the April 20 eclip

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 20, 2023
NASA astronomers marked 33 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope Thursday by releasing a high-quality image of the NGC 1333 star-forming region. "Hubble's colorful view showcased through its unique capability to obtain images from ultraviolet to near-infrared light unveils an effervescent cauldron of glowing gasses and pitch-black dust stirred up and blown around by sever

Durham UK (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope which has begun capturing images of the Universe on its first research flight. The super pressure balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was flown to the edge of space by a helium-filled NASA scientific balloon the size of a football stadium where it will help researchers investigate the mystery of dark matter. SuperBIT h

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) that launched on a scientific super pressure balloon April 16, 2023, local time from Wanaka, New Zealand, captured its first research images from this flight of the Tarantula Nebula and Antennae Galaxies. These images were captured on a balloon-borne telescope floating at 108,000 feet above Earth's surface, allowing scientists to view these

Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
Astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have identified a new threat to life on planets like Earth: a phase during which intense X-rays from exploded stars can affect planets over 100 light-years away. This result, as outlined in our latest press release, has implication for the study of exoplanets and their habitability. This newly found threat co

Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 21, 2023
After our exploration of a boulder field last week, Perseverance is continuing the Upper Fan campaign. We have driven to Echo Creek, from which we also have a view of Belva Crater. Along our journey, we have seen many interesting rocks. These include a lumpy rock that the team named "Blueberry Island", seen in the above Mastcam-Z image (Sol 765). This rock may be a conglomerate (sedimentary) roc

Boca Chica And Medford Colonia, United States (AFP) April 20, 2023
Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded during its first flight on Thursday, but Elon Musk congratulated his SpaceX team on an "exciting" test of the next-generation spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond. SpaceX blew up the uncrewed rocket four minutes after it blasted off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT) from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
More than 40 high-powered, amateur rockets successfully launched April 15, in North Alabama, each carrying a scientific payload nearly one-mile-high above ground level, as part of a NASA student competition. "These are sophisticated rockets with advanced payloads, each meeting strict NASA requirements," said Fred Kepner, NASA's activity lead for the launch. "Students are demonstrating the