Meteorites & Astronomy

Everyday, thousands of solid bodies that have originated in space, enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Most burn up in transit, but hundreds of these “shooting stars” survive the passage and land on the Earth’s surface. These are meteorites and they are named according to where they fell on the planet and are classified by weight.
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A NASA telescope captured a huge blast of gas coming back out of a black hole - which astronomers have likened to the black hole ‘burping’. It’s thought that the force of such 'burps’ could have shaped galaxies as they formed in the early universe. NASA’s Chandra space telescope captured an outburst in the supermassive black hole centered in the small galaxy NGC 5195.
What Planet Are You?
All the planets in one picture // funny pictures - funny photos - funny images - funny pics - funny quotes - #lol #humor #funnypictures
Mapping Voyager 1's Incredible 36-Year Trek Through Space
To celebrate Voyager's accomplishments and enduring legacy, we've charted some of the spacecraft's biggest moments.
Briefing Materials: 1,284 Newly Validated Kepler Planets
Briefing materials: 1,284 Newly Validated Kepler Planets - #Kepler #Planets #Nasa 5/10/2016 - NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 10 to announce the latest discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope. The briefing participants are: Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington Timothy Morton, associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey Natalie Batalha, Kepler mission...
Apollo 17: 40 Years Later
(13 December 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed working beside a huge boulder at Station 6 (base of North Massif) during the third Apollo 17 Extravehicular Activity (EVA-3) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The front portion of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is visible on the left. This picture was taken by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander.
Stephen Biesty - Apollo Moon Suit
Apollo Moon Suit.
Solar System Exploration
Who’s visiting who? This chart of solar system exploration shows every robotic space probe currently exploring (or about to explore) a major solar system object… except for the Earth and Sun of course, because there are way to many of those to show on one chart.
What's Next for NASA: Planned Missions Through 2030
What's Next for NASA: Planned Missions Through 2030 woohoo! Jose and I were just talking about New Horizons the other night! #Neato