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The most serious space weather event in history happened in 1859. It is known as the Carrington event, after the British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, who was the first to note its cause: "two patches of intensely bright and white light" emanating from a large group of sunspots. The Carrington event comprised eight days of severe space weather.
"The Silk team has created an interactive database of 300 manned spaceflights, including the 80 missions to the International space Station. You can use this resource to learn all about the history of man's adventure's in space: click on specific events to access their fact sheet, or use the "Explore mode" to combine variables, add filters and choose the type of graph. "
The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized Space telescope. The project is working to a 2018 launch date. Webb will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Webb will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System.
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Here is a realistic, professional space simulator for astronomy enthusiasts. Explore the Universe in a 3-dimensional view on the monitor of your computer. Fly from the surface of the Earth to any destination in the outer space. Simulate an outer-space journey in any direction, at any speed, and in any time in the present, past, or the future!
"The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. MAST is located at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)."
NASA will host a news conference for the next crew launching to the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, on Thursday, Sept. 24, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA Television will broadcast the news conference live at 2 p.m. EDT, preceded by video of crew training at 1:30 p.m.
"The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. MAST is located at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)."
website features news, resources, and discussion boards about LISA (the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), a Space-based gravitational-wave observatory that will allow us to detect gravitational waves from massive black-hole mergers in the centers of galaxies, from the ultra-compact binary systems in our own Galaxy, and from many other sources. A joint ESA and NASA mission, LISA will create revolutionary research opportunities in astrophysics and fundamental physics.
The Milky way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange. Reid Wiseman a NASA astronaut has captured this pic from International Space Station.
The Milky way steals the show from Sahara sands that make the Earth glow orange. Reid Wiseman a NASA astronaut has captured this pic from International Space Station.
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