Новости за 27.01.2016

On Jan. 26th, 2016, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery (at several different wavelengths) of superheated plasma exploding away from the Sun in a Coronal Mass Ejection event. [The blast is not Earth-directed.]

The Pinwheel Galaxy and Comet Catalina shine in this skywatcher image.Astrophotgrapher Greg Hogan took this image on Jan. 18, 2016 from Kathleen, GA.

A small, nearby galaxy boasts very little cosmic dust, making it easier for telescopes to capture an incredible new image of its "squeaky clean" expanse.

NASA's Cassini Saturn probe has begun reshaping its orbit in preparation for the spacecraft's "grand finale" at the ringed planet next year. The spacecraft performed an engine burn Jan. 23 to set up a Feb. 1 flyby of Saturn's huge moon Titan.

The agency will pay tribute to Challenger's seven-member crew, as well as the three astronauts lost in the Apollo 1 fire in 1967 and the seven astronauts who died when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart in 2003.

A tiny, tidy galactic neighbor of our Milky Way, named IC 1613, is surprisingly free of light obscuring dust, allowing astronomers to calibrate its distance very precisely at 2.3 million light years.

Is there a ninth planet in our solar system, lurking far beyond Neptune and Pluto? A new study provides theoretical evidence, but NASA cautions that this is far from confirmation.

On Tumblr, Astronaut Scott Kelly presents a gallery of storms on Earth seen from the International Space Station.

Looks like SpaceX's new space taxi for astronauts has serious hover power. An awesome new video of SpaceX's Dragon 2 crew capsule shows the gumdrop-shaped spacecraft hovering perfectly in place for several seconds under the power of its abort and landing

If you've had clear skies the last few nights, you probably enjoyed the sight of the nearly full moon rising in the east. Tonight (Jan. 27), the moon will not be alone; it will rise with the planet Jupiter just a short distance above it.

Clusters of stars can harvest enough gas from their galaxies to give birth to a new generation of stars of their own, researchers say.