Friday, August 23, 2013

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


NASA releases new imagery of asteroid mission

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 12:34 PM PDT

NASA released new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images depict crew operations including the Orion spacecraft's trip to and rendezvous with the relocated asteroid, as well as astronauts maneuvering through a spacewalk to collect samples from the asteroid.

Space slinky: Jet of superheated gas -- 5,000 light-years long -- ejected from supermassive black hole

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:25 AM PDT

Astronomers have assembled, from more than 13 years of observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a series of time-lapse movies showing a jet of superheated gas — 5,000 light-years long — as it is ejected from a supermassive black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy M87.

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