Новости за 26.04.2016

When atoms or molecules get excited (say, by getting hit with tons of high-energy radiation) they give off very specific wavelengths of light Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter explains.

In the 1800’s two French astronomers found a very strange kind of star. While we’re still not 100% sure what they are, we know it has something to do with the warm-up phase for supernovae.

A look at the spacecraft that met their end on the Red Planet.

NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $67 million, 36-month contract to design, build and test an advanced, superefficient solar electric propulsion system that could have a profound impact on the future of spaceflight.

New supersharp photos of Mars show Europe's long-lost Beagle 2 lander, ancient Red Planet lake beds and snaking rover tracks in unprecedented detail.

The envisioned colony will be a permanent base for science, business, mining and even tourism on the moon, European Space Agency officials said.

A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket on April 25 successfully placed a European radar Earth observation satellite, a French fundamental-physics experiment and three European university-built cubesats into separate low-Earth orbits. - See more at: http://sp

It seems that whenever we look at a new picture of Saturn by NASA's Cassini mission, there's always something unique. And often, there's hidden gem.

What does Mars sound like? A microphone on NASA's Mars 2020 rover could allow scientists to analyze the composition of rocks, as well as hear the Martian wind blow.

The new IMAX film 'A Beautiful Planet' depicts Earth from an astronaut's-eye view, and it also painstakingly recreates the entire Milky Way in a realistic visualization — learn how in a new video exclusively released to Space.com April 26.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a moon orbiting the 870-mile-wide (1,400 kilometers) Makemake, which is the second-brightest object in the distant Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

See photos and illustrations of the distant icy dwarf planet Makemake.

Imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that a small moon is orbiting the Kuiper Belt icy dwarf. A lot can be learned about Makemake from the discovery, including the mass of the system.

A giant space shuttle fuel tank made for an unusual sight at the Atlantic Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal. The 154-foot-long (47 meter) external tank, riding on an uncovered flatbed barge, entered the famous waterway on its trip to the California Scien