‘Space’ Archives
Geeky Space Picture of The Day: Two-Headed Hurricane
NASA’s Terra Earth-observing satellite snapped this image of two major hurricanes in the western Atlantic ocean. The northern storm is Danielle, and the southern one is Earl. You can also read NASA’s Terra page about this image to learn more.
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: NASA Gets Tanked
External Tank-138, which will fly on NASA's final space shuttle mission in 2011, is prepared to leave NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and be delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the last shuttle mission after three decades of orbiter flight. Full Story
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: Holy Crap, That’s A Planet!
This my friends is the first direct photograph ever taken of an exoplanet. An exoplanet, for those of you in Rio Linda is a planet outside of our solar system. It's about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and it's orbiting the star 1RSX J160929.1-210524... since it has some historical significance now, they should probably come up with a new name for [...]
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: That’s A Lot Of Oil
Image credit: NASA and the MODIS Rapid Response Team
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: Southern Lights
Now that @Atsro_Soichi is back on Terra firma, you might be asking yourself "Where can I get awesome behind the scenes pictures from the International Space Station?" I'm glad you asked, dear reader. U.S. Astronaut Douglas "Wheels" Wheelock will be tweeting during his stay at the orbital outpost. You can follow him @Astro_Wheels. Today he has [...]
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch
It took them a couple of tries yesterday, but SpaceX launched their first Falcon 9 rocket. It made it to orbit on the first try... something even the CEO was skiddish about predicting yesterday. I will say that they need to work on their presentation though. The video quality is nowhere near what you'd expect to see from NASA, and they didn't [...]
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: Farewell Atlantis
If you're not following @Astro_Soichi, you're really missing out. Soichi Noguchi is a JAXA astronaut who has been tweeting from the International Space Station since his arrival up there a couple of months ago. In this particular picture we're looking at an aurora on the left-hand side, the bright light is the Moon and obviously the Space Shuttle [...]
