On April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his camera on Earth. This video is a composite of 316 still frames from that evening. (NASA/JSC/Don Pettit and NASA/MSFC/B. Cooke)
A ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse is coming to the USA on Sunday, May 20, 2012. The Moon will pass in front of the sun, transforming sunbeams across the Pacific side of Earth into fat crescents and thin rings of light. It’s the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 …
Cape Canaveral, Florida – SpaceX aborted its launch of the Dragon capsule toward the ISS at the last second on Saturday due to a technical issue with one of the rocket’s nine engines. “The initiation sequence had started but there was a cutoff,” said Nasa commentator George Diller. A SpaceX spokesperson said engineers would look …
(CNN) — Thousands of people are planning viewing parties for the upcoming annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon. The eclipse will begin over Asia on Monday morning, when it will be visible in southern Japan and southern China. In the United States, …
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012 10:57 Astronomy – Cosmology An unprecedented survey of gravitationally lensed quasars, has been used to measure the expansion history of the universe. The result provides strong evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. There were several observations that suggested accelerated cosmic expansion, including distant supernovae for which the …
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