by Emily Carney | Nov 27, 2020 | Astronomy, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney It was an announcement that rocked the astronomy and planetary science community last week: Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, which has endured significant structural damage, would be decommissioned after 50+ years of service. It...
by National Space Society | Aug 19, 2017 | Astronomy
If you are on or near the centerline of the path of totality during the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, you are able to participate in an activity to observe and record the faintest stars visible as a means of measuring how dark the daytime sky gets. By locating and...
by National Space Society | Feb 15, 2016 | Astronomy, ISDC, NSS Press Releases
We, the members of the National Space Society, believe exploring the unknown is one of the things that drives our vision of “people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic...
by National Space Society | Jun 30, 2015 | Astronomy, NASA, NSS Press Releases, Space Exploration
Video on NASA’s New Horizons Mission Gets a Million Views in a Week; This Extended Director’s Cut Version Dropped Today on YouTube This extended version of a viral video detailing NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, entitled “New Horizons...
by National Space Society | Dec 13, 2013 | Astronomy, Space
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous scientific findings from other sources...
by David Brandt-Erichsen | Apr 19, 2012 | Asteroids, Astronomy, NASA
A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and study their characteristics. NEOs are asteroids with orbits that occasionally bring them close to the Earth. The amateur astronomers are about to make...
by Dave Fischer | Jan 15, 2012 | Astronomy, European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, Space Science
There is an average of more than one planet per star in the Milky Way Image Credit: NASA / ESA / ESO With the forthcoming publication in the journal Nature on 12 January, it is estimated that there are more than 100 billion planets in our Milky Way galaxy. That means...
by David Brandt-Erichsen | Oct 3, 2011 | Astronomy
Humanity’s most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers at its 16,500-feet elevation site in northern Chile. Detailed views of star-formation in the Antennae...
