ESO auscultates a stellar nursery

The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the galaxies of our own satellites, remote a little over 200,000 years light. It is visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. Among the many cosmic objects therein, the open star (more...)

Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope Takes Shape

The first segment of the main mirror of the future telescope James Webb Space (JWST James Webb Space Telescope) is taking shape. His temperature has been lowered significantly to almost -223 ° C, (more...)

The giant telescope of ESO in Chile probably will move

Where to install the largest telescope in the world, including the diameter of the mirror primary rise 42 meters? Several sites are competing but the Committee of the ESO in charge of this difficult choice has announced its preference for the Cerro armazón,

Giant Telescope EELT: Spain wants her!

The matter seemed settled: the EELT the future giant telescope 42 meters in diameter that the Europeans intend to build should be installed on the South American continent. It would logically joined three other ESO observatories located in the Chilean Andes, in La Silla, at Paranal (head of the prestigious VLT, the Very Large Telescope) [...]

NASA prepares to send space shuttle Endeavour

Specialists American space agency (NASA) began re-fueling space shuttle Endeavour to the launch site to them. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral (Florida),

Shuttle “Endeavour” successfully docked to the ISS

Space Shuttle Endeavour with the load of new equipment has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), said the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA.

NASA released pictures taken by powerful telescopes

Researchers from NASA recently presented a spectacular collection of photographs, which were sealed with a variety of objects - from a comet before colliding galaxies.

Agency NASA postponed the launch space shuttle “Discovery”

Launching the shuttle “Discovery” postponed from March 18 to April 5, 2010, the official website of the American Space Agency (NASA). The reason for this decision was the cold weather, the well-established in Florida, where the spaceport, transmits tape. Py.

Because of cold weather in Florida launch Discovery to the ISS moved to April

Cold weather in the southern states of the USA, has made adjustments to the schedule of preparations for the start of the American spacecraft Discovery.

In the solar system discovered a major new comet

The new wide space telescope NASA WISE discovered a previously unknown and rather large comet in the solar system detects the object is managed in the infrared spectrum among several millions of similar fragments, located in the inner solar system asteroid belt.

Ammonia leak occurred during the exit from the Endeavour astronauts in EVA

On etom reported at NASA.
Ammonia leakage observed astronaut Nicholas Patrick during the accession ammonia lines to the system of thermoregulation Tranquility new module to the ISS.
The astronaut reported that not found in his spacesuit crystals of ammonia, however, under the rules of NASA, “his suit is considered to be contaminated. “As a precaution, [...]

Agency NASA has submitted the game for the iPhone

The U.S. space agency (NASA) released a game for the iPhone, called the NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator (simulator electric moonwalker). The game is available for free download on the phone in the iTunes Store,

NASA released a game for your mobile phone

The U.S. space agency (NASA) released a game for the iPhone, called the NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator (simulator electric moonwalker). The game is available for free download on the phone in the iTunes Store.

After reaching orbit satellite

Starting a new weather satellite GOES-P (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P) was held from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral in Florida, wrote ru. tsn.ua.
National Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the latest U.S. weather satellite GOES-P (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P). Launch vehicle Delta-4 satellite was launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral at 18:57 Eastern time. Already [...]

Mars probe sent to NASA 100 terabits of data about the planet

These days Martian orbiter Mars Reconnaissanse Orbiter is celebrating its 4 th anniversary in orbit the Red Planet, reminiscent of NASA. Also today, data transmission systems MRO a milestone - the device is