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Awesome Billion-Pixel Panorama Spins You Around Curiosity Rover’s Worksite on Mars
Posted June 19, 2013 by Adam Mann
NASA’s Curiosity rover is constantly toiling away to deliver great science from Mars and make amazing new discoveries. Now, the agency has released this interactive 1.3-billion-pixel panorama to transport you right to the rover’s most recent worksite a…
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Spirograph Nebula
Posted June 19, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2, 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus. In this picture, the Hubble telescope reveals some remarkable textures weaving through the nebula. Their origin, howeve…
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Green Flash on the Moon
Posted June 18, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
On Cerro Paranal, the 2600-metre-high mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert that is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the atmospheric conditions are so exceptional that fleeting events such as the green flash of the setting Sun are seen relatively frequently. …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Cloud in Serpens
Posted June 17, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
As the realm of galaxies slowly slides past it prime, the dim and dusty clouds that float above the plane of our galaxy harbingers the rise of galactic center. Here then is one of those clouds in Serpens that is …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Warm Venus Volcano
Posted June 16, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
This figure shows the volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46 degrees south latitude, 214.5 degrees east longitude) in the Imdr Regio area of Venus. The topographic backbone derives from data obtained by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, with a vertical exaggeration…
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Wired Space Photo of Day: Guts of a Dead Star
Posted June 15, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
Suspended in time and space, the aftermath of a massive star’s dramatic ending in a supernova explosion is captured by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory. Nested knots of hot gas glowing green at X-ray wavelengths – equivalent to millions of degrees celsius …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Changing Neptune Seasons
Posted June 14, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations in August 2002 show that Neptune’s brightness has increased significantly since 1996. The rise is due to an increase in the amount of clouds observed in the planet’s southern hemisphere. These increases may be d…
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Black Hole Bonanza
Posted June 13, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have been used to discover 26 black hole candidates in the Milky Way’s galactic neighbor, Andromeda, as described in our latest press release. This is the largest number of possible black holes found in …&nb…
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Spectacular Cosmographic Maps Chart Galaxies and Superclusters in Local Universe
Posted June 12, 2013 by Adam Mann
Take a trip through our local universe and see the positions and movements of galaxies and clusters with this incredible new video map. In this gallery, Wired presents some of the highlights from this galactic mapping project but, if you …  …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Dry Ice Tracks on Mars
Posted June 12, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
Several types of downhill flow features have been observed on Mars. This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an example of a type called “linear gullies.” Linear gullies are…
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Glowing Pinwheel Galaxy
Posted June 11, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. The picture is composed of images taken by XMM-Newton’s Optical Monitor telescope using different filters: red …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Fensal and Aztlan
Posted June 10, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
Although hidden from human eyes, the Cassini spacecraft can spot these dark features on the surface of Titan thanks to its special near-infrared filters. The features seen here have been dubbed “Fensal” and “Aztlan” by scientists. The dark features are…
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Colliding Galaxies
Posted May 8, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
As they neared one another and collided their mutual gravitation disrupted the internal motions of the their stars transforming two spiral galaxies into fractured blobs. The spiral nature of NGC 4485 (to the upper right) still survives as these two …
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Space Photo of the Day: Collection of Mercury Craters
Posted May 7, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
This oblique view highlights, from top to bottom, Balzac, Phidias, Tyagaraja, Stevenson, and Zeami craters. While named craters are still sparse across much of Mercury, this region was observed by Mariner 10, allowing for plenty of time to propose name…
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Stunning Supernova
Posted May 6, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years …
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Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet
Posted May 6, 2013 by Adam Mann
When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank. Wired talked to the Chief Internet Evangelist …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Blowing Bubbles in Trapezium
Posted May 5, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds – streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium stars – collide with material.
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Moon Shadow Over Neptune
Posted May 4, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
In 2009, amateur image processor (and philosophy professor) Ted Stryk discovered something no one had recognized before — images that show the shadow of Despina in transit across Neptune’s blue cloud tops. His composite view of Despina and its shadow …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Ida and Moon
Posted May 3, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
This color picture is made from images taken by the imaging system on the Galileo spacecraft about 14 minutes before its closest approach to asteroid 243 Ida on August 28, 1993. The range from the spacecraft was about 10,500 kilometers …
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Wired Space Photo of the Day: Morphological Mars Mystery
Posted May 2, 2013 by Wired Science Staff
This image covers many shallow irregular pits with raised rims, concentrated along ridges and other topographic features. How did these odd features form?
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