NASA and ESA's First Joint Mission to Mars Selects Instruments
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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and selected the five science instruments for the first mission.
Pinwheel Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years (six megaparsecs away in the constellation Ursa Major ...
Messier 81 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Due to its proximity to Earth, large ...
Stamatios Krimigis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stamatios (Tom) M. Krimigis (Greek: Σταμάτιος Κριμιζής) is a Greek-American scientist in space exploration. He has contributed to the majority of the United ...
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Cassini–Huygens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cassini–Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI spacecraft mission studying the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since 2004. Launched in 1997 after nearly two decades of ...
EJSM/Laplace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Europa Jupiter System Mission – Laplace (EJSM/Laplace) was a proposed joint NASA/ESA unmanned space mission slated to launch around 2020 for the in-depth exploration of ...
NGC 6826 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NGC 6826 (also known as Caldwell 15) is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is commonly referred to as the "blinking planetary", although many other ...
SN 1604 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Supernova 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's Nova or Kepler's Star, was a supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster).
Russia Talks Moon Base With NASA, ESA milbournosphere writes "Russia and NASA are reportedly in talks to create a base on the Moon. They're looking to create either a facility on the Moon itself or a permanent space station in orbit around the moon. 'We don't want man to just step on the Moon,' agency chief Vladimir Popovkin said in an interview with Vesti FM radio station. 'Today, we know enough about it. We know that there is ...
Hubble captures barred spiral galaxy image GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- NASA and the European Space Agency say a Hubble image of a barred spiral galaxy will help astronomers understand more about our own Milky Way galaxy.
NASA budget will axe Mars deal with Europe: scientists US President Barack Obama's budget proposal to be submitted next week for 2013 will cut NASA's budget by 20 percent and eliminate a major partnership with Europe on Mars exploration, scientists said Thursday.
Hubble images reveal galaxy similar to Milky Way The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a barred spiral galaxy — a galaxy similar to our own and expected to give astronomers a better insight into the Milky Way.
Does the Milky Way galaxy have an evil twin? The Hubble Space Telescope has detected a galaxy that is strikingly similar to our own Milky Way, but there's no reason to believe that it's evil.
Did this Supernova Leave Nothing Behind? [Starts With A Bang] "Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth." - Jean Rostand One of the most awesome events, literally , that happens in this Universe is when stars -- giant nuclear furnaces like our Sun -- die in the most energetic way possible: a supernova . (Video credit: Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Ors Hunor Detre, Oliver Krause) , via YouTube .) Every star that ever lived gets two ...