The leaky spacesuit worn by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano
during a spacewalk last July had leaked a week earlier, a problem that
NASA failed to correctly diagnose, a panel investigating the
near-drowning has found.
The number of known planets beyond the solar system took a
giant leap thanks to a new technique that verifies candidate planets
found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope in batches rather than
one-by-one.
Hubble has slewed in the direction of M82 to snap this dreamy
portrait of SN 2014J, the closest supernova to erupt in recent decades.
Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of one of the first alien planets ever identified by astronomers.
Earlier this month, a peanut-shaped asteroid buzzed Earth and
astronomers managed to image it using radar.
As the recent X4.9-class flare ripped across the surface of
the sun, a fleet of solar observatories were ready to measure its
impact.
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has captured many impressive
views through his camera lens, but this is one of the most beautiful.
Solar maximum may be starting to wane, but the sun has no
intention on slipping into the stellar doldrums quietly.
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