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  • Io, a Changing Moon

    Like the downtown area of your favorite city and any self-respecting web site … Io‘s surface is constantly under construction. This moon of Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System’s most volcanically active body — its bizarre looking… Continue reading

    Io, a Changing Moon

  • Picturing Doomsday: All the Asteroids that Could Destroy Life on Earth

    It’s no surprise that NASA is keeping track of all potentially hazardous objects, or PHOs, that surround our planet. If it’s closer than 4.6 million miles away and larger than about 350 feet in diameter, NASA’s watching it. And if… Continue reading

    Picturing Doomsday: All the Asteroids that Could Destroy Life on Earth

  • NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn

    Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact… Continue reading

    NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn

  • Bright Blue Dot

    In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of… Continue reading

    Bright Blue Dot

  • Mars lost its atmosphere 4bn years ago

      A mysterious, catastrophic event tore away the atmosphere of Mars, according to the first detailed analysis of the make-up of the air on the Red Planet. A year after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, and having travelled a… Continue reading

  • Cosmic gas cloud fights supermassive black hole | Science | guardian.co.uk

    Supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has a gas cloud in its gravitational clutches – but the gas cloud isn’t giving up without a fight… The gas cloud was discovered in 2011 and shown to be on… Continue reading

  • Rolling Space Clouds

    Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hoag’s Object (wired.com) Moon Lava (willscienceforfood.com) Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass (fox6now.com) Hubble picks up giant space… Continue reading

  • Beautiful End of a Star’s Life

    http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/07/13/this-photo-shows-the-beautiful-end-of-a-stars-life/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading