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HD 40307g, une exoplanète potentiellement habitable et proche de la Terre
Une exoplanète dont la masse équivaudrait à sept fois celle de la Terre et potentiellement habitable a été découverte à quelque 42 années-lumière de nous.See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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HubbleSite - NewsCenter - NASA Great Observatories Find Candidate for Most...
By combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new distance record for finding the...
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Une planète errante détectée non loin de la Terre | Ciel et Espace
Cette planète flottante navigue à 100 années-lumière de la Terre. Elle a peut-être été éjectée de son système.See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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100,000 Stars
An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars. Created for the Google Chrome web browser.See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Did a Lost Star Torque Earth's Orbit? - ScienceNOW
Did a Lost Star Torque Earth's Orbit?- ScienceNOW...See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Alexander's Dark Band
Rainbows, how they are formed, pictures and simulations...See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Coursera : Introduction to Astronomy
About the CourseIn this class, we will be studying, quite literally, everything in the universe. We will start with "classical" astronomy, describing the night sky and organizing what we see as was...
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Astronomy: Stars Reveal the Secret of Aging Well - Science Daily (press release)
Astronomy: Stars Reveal the Secret of Aging Well Science Daily (press release) But while the stars are old and the clusters formed in the distant past, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
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Astronomers Discover Earth-Like Planet Close to Us
This is really exciting: an international team of astronomers has discovered that Tau Ceti, the closest single star like our Sun, has planets just like our solar system.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Apocalypse postponed: how Earth survived Halley's comet in 1910 - The...
Science Recorder Apocalypse postponed: how Earth survived Halley's comet in 1910 The Guardian (blog) Comet Halley against the Milky Way In 1910, the Earth was due to pass through the tail of Halley's...
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APOD: 2012 December 21 - Orion over El Castillo
Welcome to the December solstice, a day the world does not end ...See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Mars Mission Marks Milestone in India's Space Program - Voice of America
Voice of America Mars Mission Marks Milestone in India's Space Program Voice of America The Mars mission marks a fundamental shift in India's space mission.See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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NASA scientists have discovered stars that are cool enough to touch
Last year, NASA announced that it had discovered 14 of the coldest stars it had ever recorded. The so-called "brown dwarfs" were, at that time, listed among the coldest known stars in our...
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Le rayonnement fossile, et ce que Planck nous en révèle
Si vous suivez l'actualité, l'image ci-contre doit vous être familière. Il s'agit de la carte du rayonnement fossile de l'Univers, publiée cette semaine en grande pompe par l'Agence Spatiale...
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A hidden population of exotic neutron stars - Astronomy Magazine
A major campaign using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows magnetars — exotic neutron stars — may be more diverse — and common — than previously thought.See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Star Size Comparison HD AudioV2
This is an upload of my star size comparison video for the countries in which the original one has been blocked, due to copyrigt issues of the audio track. I...Patrice AFRIAT's insight:An impressive...
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APOD: 2013 June 22 - Perigee s Full Moon
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.Patrice AFRIAT's insight:Sunday, we will be very close to an old friend...See it on Scoop.it,...
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Galaxy Crash Spawns Space Penguin in Hubble Telescope Photo - Space.com
Galaxy Crash Spawns Space Penguin in Hubble Telescope Photo Space.com A cosmic penguin shines 326 million light-years from Earth in a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.See it on...
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Bizarre star could host a neutron star in its core
Astronomers spot best candidate for a Thorne-Zytkow object, a hybrid star proposed almost 40 years ago.See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Martian Sunset (Spirit rover)
Patrice AFRIAT's insight:Explanation: What would it be like to see a sunset on Mars? To help find out, the robotic rover Spirit was deployed in 2005 to park and watch the Sun dip serenely below the...
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Hacking the Van Allen Belts - IEEE Spectrum
“Could we save satellites and astronauts by wiping out the Van Allen belts? (Hacking the Van Allen Belts - IEEE Spectrum... http://t.co/75F5ExD4JA)”See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Astronomers witness mysterious, never-before-seen disintegration of asteroid
“Astronomers have witnessed the never-before-seen breakup of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces.”See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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Another Earth? Astronomers Find Earth-Size Planet in Its Star's Habitable...
Slate Magazine (blog) Another Earth? Astronomers Find Earth-Size Planet in Its Star's Habitable Zone Slate Magazine (blog) I have some cautiously exciting exoplanets news: Astronomers have announced...
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Giant Gamma-Ray Detector Searches for 2 Home Sites
The Cherenkov Telescope Array will track high-energy photons to probe black holes, dark matter and relativity (Giant #Gamma Ray Detector Searches for Two Home Sites - @CTA_Telescope -...
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Zooming in on the nearby brown dwarf Luhman 16B
Video ArchivePatrice AFRIAT's insight:This video starts with a broad view of the entire sky and closes in on the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails). In the final sequence, among huge numbers of...
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ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment
ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment @ USTREAM: ***QUICK NOTES ABOUT HDEV VIDEO*** Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the E...Patrice AFRIAT's insight:Real-time view of...
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APOD: 2014 May 29 - Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Explanation: Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is some 15,000 light-years away. The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun within a volume...
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The Cliffs of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
These high cliffs occur on the surface of a comet. They were discovered to be part of the dark nucleus of Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko (CG) by Rosetta, a robotic spacecraft launched by ESAwhich began...
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Hubble Telescope Captures Best View Ever of the Andromeda Galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new viewof the Andromeda Galaxy. The new mosaic image represents the sharpest and largest mosaic image of the Milky Way's galactic neighbor ever...
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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
Patrice AFRIAT's insight:From now, you will realize how BIG is space... and how ridiculously small are we all, down here.See it on Scoop.it, via Astronomy Domain
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