March 24, 2010
 The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 22
Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev near the town
of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 18, 2010. NASA Astronaut Jeff
Williams and Russian Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev are returning from six
months
onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of
the Expedition 21 and 22 crews. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 24, 2010
 This image of the open star cluster NGC 7380, also known as the Wizard
Nebula, is a mosaic of images from the WISE mission spanning an area on
the sky of about 5 times the size of the full moon. NGC 7380 is located
in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within
the
Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans
some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this
star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a
r... Continue reading...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 24, 2010
 Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many
locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of
Saturn's moon Enceladus. The tiger stripes are fissures that spray icy
particles, water vapor and organic compounds. This mosaic was created
from two
high-resolution images that were captured by the narrow-angle camera
when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Enceladus and through the jets
on Nov. 21, 2009. Imaging the jets over time will allow Cassini
scientis... Continue reading...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 24, 2010
 The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from
Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Tokyo,
Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation. From the left are
Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, President of the Japanese Aerospace
Exploration Agency, Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator; Jean-Jacques
Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency; Anatoly N.
Permirov, Head of the Russian Space Agency; and, Dr. Steve MacLean,
President of the Canadian Space Ag... Continue reading...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 24, 2010
 This mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explore, or
WISE, in the constellation of Cassiopeia contains a large star-forming
nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy, called IC 1805 or the Heart Nebula,
a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is more
than 6,000 light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two
nearby galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. In visible light these galaxies
are hidden by dust in IC 1805 and were unknown until 1968 when Paolo
Maf... Continue reading...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 24, 2010
 In 2005 the robotic Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic
moon, and sent back the first ever images from beneath Titan's thick
cloud layers. This artist's impression is based on those images. In the
foreground, sits the car-sized lander that sent back images for more
than 90
minutes before running out of battery power. The parachute that slowed
Huygen's re-entry is seen in the background, still attached to the
lander. Smooth stones, possibly containing water-ice, are strewn about
...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 9, 2010
NASA’s Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space 03.04.10
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 9, 2010
How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies 03.03.10 
This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest
galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. X-ray
data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in red, optical data
from the Hubble Space Telescope in green and radio data from the Very
Large Array in blue. The spiral structure of NGC 1068 is shown by the
X-ray and optical data, and a jet powered by the central supermassive
black hole is shown by the r... Continue reading...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 9, 2010
NASA's International Space Station Program Wins Collier Trophy
WASHINGTON -
NASA's International Space Station Program has won the 2009 Collier
Trophy, which is considered the top award in aviation. The National
Aeronautic Association in Washington bestows the award annually to
recognize the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in
America.
The association says it selected the station "for
the design, development, and assembly of the of the world's largest
spacecraft, ... Continue reading...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
March 9, 2010
 The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova noted by Earth-bound
chroniclers in 1054 A.D., is filled with mysterious filaments that are
are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than
expelled in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected
from a free
explosion. The Crab Nebula spans about 10 light-years. In the nebula's
very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive as the Sun but
with only the size of a small town. The Crab Pulsar rotates about 30
times... Continue reading...
Posted by Prateek Tripathi.
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