Tagged: space

The Tarantula Nebula

A blue-hot star, 90 times more massive than our Sun, is hurtling across space fast enough to make a round trip from Earth to the Moon in merely two hours. Though the speed is not a record-breaker, it is unique to find a homeless star that has traveled so far from its nest. The only way the star could have been ejected from the star cluster where it was born is through a tussle with a rogue star that entered the binary system where the star lived, which ejected the star through a dynamical game of stellar pinball.

Saturn’s Polar Vortex

Photograph by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute   The center of this vortex was imaged in unprecedented detail by the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. These clouds lie at the center of the unusual hexagonal cloud system...

First photo from space

This photo was taken in space right after World War II (1946). A team of soldiers and scientists used a German-made V-2 missile equipped with a camera to capture this shot. Making it the first photo in space.

Mixed Nuts in Space

Another Fun Friday video! Everyday life in weightlessness holds many surprises. CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield pulls the lid back on the secret world of mixed nuts in space. Credit: CSA/NASA