How often do we see all of those posed in one photograph? From space, itâs not as hard to assemble such a delegation. This photograph of part of the Middle East was a view from the window of the Space ...
Aurora Borealis from Space
Aurora Borealis was photographed by an STS-116 crew member aboard Space Shuttle Discovery this week. City lights and stars are also visible in this image from space because of the long camera exposure. Aurora Borealis was the Latin name given ...
Largest Particle Detector Almost Ready
Construction of another part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worldâs largest particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland, is nearing completion. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of the LHC projectâs four large particle detectors. It will help ...
Nighttime Blast off for Space Shuttle
Following postponement of the earlier launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery days ago due to local cloudy conditions, the seven member astronaut crew of STS mission 116 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday night December ...
Water on Mars? Martian Life Next?
Mars just doesnât seem to get out of the news these days. Following the mysterious disappearance of NASAâs Mars Global Surveyor late last month and some spectacular 3D imagery of the Red Planet, NASA announced on Wednesday that it discovered ...
Marsâ Victoria Crater in 3D
This 3D stereo view composed of two high resolution images of the âVictoria Craterâ on Mars was photographed by NASAâs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Victoria Crater, approximately 750 m wide and about 70 m deep, was discovered by NASAâs Rover ...
Worldâs Largest Superconducting Magnet
The Barrel Toroid superconducting magnet is part of the ATLAS detector, one of the four big particle experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland. Among the questions ATLAS will focus on ...
San Diego from Space
Hey, you down there in San Diego! This aerial photograph of greater San Diego was snapped from space from a window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS mission 115 to the ISS in September, 2006. The view spans ~50 ...
Telescopes Record New Babies on Orion
This magnificent picture is a composite of infrared and visible-light images taken from NASAâs Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and shows stars being created 1,500 light-years away from Earth in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula. The Orion nebula ...
Cape Cod from Space
This is a photograph with an aerial view of Cape Cod and âthe Islandsâ from 220 miles above the earth. Visible are the entirety of âthe Capeâ and the islands of Marthaâs Vineyard (left) and Nantucket (right), as well as ...