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December is a great month for stargazing. Here are some tips
Read full article: December is a great month for stargazing. Here are some tipsJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The best meteor shower of the year is only a few days away, but it’s not the only nice thing that will brighten up the night sky in December. “The beautiful thing about this is that some of these objects are naked eye objects.”Those objects include the Geminid meteor shower Sunday night. A tip for iPhone users, if you have to look at your phone, put it in red mode. Make sure it’s on color tint and that the intensity and hue are turned all the way up. It won’t happen again for another 20 years, so you won’t want to miss it!
Jupiter, enticing moon Europa star in new Hubble photo
Read full article: Jupiter, enticing moon Europa star in new Hubble photoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Jupiter and its enticing moon Europa shine in a new photo by the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble snapped the picture last month when the planet was 406 million miles (653 million kilometers) away, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore released it Thursday. Europa, which is smaller than our own moon, appears as a pale dot alongside its giant, color-streaked gas planet. NASA plans to launch a spacecraft, the Europa Clipper, later this decade to see if conditions there might be ripe for life. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.
Hubble spies slow-motion fireworks in space
Read full article: Hubble spies slow-motion fireworks in spaceAlthough the timing of the latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope coincides with the upcoming July 4 holiday, the cosmic fireworks captured in it have been unfolding over two centuries. (CNN) - Although the timing of the latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope coincides with the upcoming July 4 holiday, the cosmic fireworks captured in it have been unfolding over two centuries. The source of the show is 7,500 light-years from Earth in the double star system Eta Carinae, which is in the Carina or Ship's Keel constellation. The Great Eruption, a gigantic explosion, happened in the system in 1838. But the Great Eruption was different.
Hubble Space Telescope spots 'soccer balls' in space
Read full article: Hubble Space Telescope spots 'soccer balls' in spaceIn this NASA handout, the Hubble Space Telescope drifts through space in a picture taken from the space shuttle Discovery during Hubble's second servicing mission in 1997. (CNN) - The Hubble Space Telescope has identified soccer ball-shaped molecules amid the gas and dust that fills the space beyond our solar system and between other star systems. That space is known as the interstellar medium or ISM, and Hubble is exposing some of the mysterious electrically charged molecules within it. Some of the compounds that make up the interstellar medium block or absorb different wavelengths of starlight as it passes through this space. Life as we know it is carbon-based, and now carbon has been shown to form and survive in the harsh and exposed interstellar medium.