Etiket: NASA

World-renowned physicist, cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking fulfilled a lifelong dream Thursday when he experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for the first time aboard Zero Gravity’s G-Force One. The flight took off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida. Zero Gravity cofounders Peter Diamandis and astronaut Byron Lichtenberg…

A team of astronomers working with NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has witnessed the brightest supernova ever seen, leading them to suggest that a similar explosion may be imminent in a star in our own galaxy. “This supernova was not only bright, but also rather slow in its development, which means that when you take into…

A team of astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has mapped temperature variations over the surface of the giant gas planet HD 189733b, revealing it is likely being whipped by roaring winds. “We have mapped the temperature variations with longitude across the entire surface of the planet that is so far away its light takes…