Saturday Space Sight: A Portrait Of Venus
Made using an ultraviolet filter in its imaging system, the photo has been color-enhanced to bring out Venus’s cloudy atmosphere as the human eye would see it. Venus is perpetually blanketed by a thick...
View ArticleSearching for the Sounds of Life
We come from one noisy planet, don’t we? Life, as we know it, is loud. Remember the movie Contact? A group of human astronomers and scientists hear an extraterrestrial signal coming from Vega. That...
View ArticleSaturday Space Sight: Next Stop, Pluto!
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto. The...
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