Louis William Butterworth (1948. 17 July 17 in Casper, Wyoming - ) is an American engineer and astronaut. He gained a degree in mechanical engineering in 1970 at the University of Utah. In 1972, he worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer, and joined the astronaut training program...
Sabine is a lunar crater that forms a nearly matching pair with Ritter to the northwest. The two rims are separated by a distance of only a couple of kilometers. To the west is the bowl-shaped crater Schmidt, and farther to the north are Manners and Arago. Read more
Kurt Wahmke (2 March 1904 - 16 July 1934 in Kummersdorf) was a German rocket pioneer. Kurt Wahmke achieved his doctorate in the laboratory of Erich Schumann. The title of his research dissertation was on the outflow of gases through cylindrical nozzles, the work was accepted in 1933 by Schumann and A...
Sun 15.07.14: Ultraviolet (390nm) image of the solar western limb, showing two (lighter) regions of magnetic activity. Sun 15.07.14: Ultraviolet (390nm) photomosaic captured with a 114mm reflector and webcam.
Title: Raman Scattered HeII 6545 in the Young and Compact Planetary Nebula NGC 6790 Authors: Eun-Ha Kang, Hee-Won Lee, Byeong-Cheol Lee We present the high resolution spectra of the youn and compact planetary nebula NGC 6790 obtained with the echelle spectrograph at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy...
NGC 6657 (also IRAS 18312+3401, MCG 6-41-3, UGC 11271 and PGC 62019) is a magnitude +13.5 barred spiral galaxy located 323 million light-years away in the constellation Lyra. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Obs...
Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov (born 30 May 1934 in Listvyanka, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major General who, on 18 March 1965, became the first human to conduct a space walk. Read more
Badr-1 was a first digital communication satellite launched by Pakistan's SUPARCO in 1990. Badr-1 Communication Satellite was Pakistan's first indigenously developed Digital Communications Experimental satellite. Badr-1 which means "New Moon-1" in Urdu language; the satelli...
Comet Swift-Tuttle (formally designated 109P/Swift-Tuttle) is a comet that was independently discovered by Lewis Swift on July 16, 1862 and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on July 19, 1862. It has a well determined orbit and has a comet nucleus 26 km in diameter. It is the parent body of the Perseid meteor...
The 42 - 94 metre wide asteroid 2006 SD25 will make a close pass (57.1 lunar distances, 0.1468 AU), travelling at 11.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th July 2014 @ 10:33 UT ±2 days 05:44. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
The "darkest ever" substance known to science has been made in a US laboratory. The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders. Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal black material, which absorbs light perf...
NASA has assigned crews for the STS-127 space shuttle mission and the Expedition 19 International Space Station mission. The STS-127 mission will deliver the final components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory to the station. Expedition 19 will double the size of the re...
Crater Cleomedes and Mare Crisium taken with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter, IR-cut filter. 2X Barlow lens Cleomedes is a prominent lunar crater located in the northeast part of the visible Moon, to the nort...
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