Solar Wx

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• European Space Agency Flickr Update
• NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
• Phytoplankton Bloom in the Norwegian Sea
• Second Spacewalk
• Canyon fly-through
• Trek to Mount Sharp Begins
• Week in Images
• Raystown Ray
• NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
• Blauer Exoplanet
• Luca Skywalker
• Space Station Ocean Imager Available to More Scientists
• Galileo spreads its wings
• Galileo's wings
• IP spin-off

European Space Agency Flickr Update Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:32 PM PDT The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is the largest of the Zodiac constellations, and the second largest overall after Hydra (The Water Snake). Its most appealing feature, however, is the sheer number of galaxies that lie within it. In this picture, among a crowd of face- and edge-on spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies, lies NGC 4866, a lenticular galaxy situated about 80 million light-years from Earth.  Lenticular galaxies are somewhere between spirals and ellipticals in terms of shape and properties. From the picture, we can appreciate the bright central bulge of NGC 4866, which contains primarily old stars, but no spiral arms are visible. To the right of the galaxy is a very bright star that appears to lie within NGC 4866's halo. However, this star actually lies much closer to us; in front of the galaxy, along our line of sight. This sharp image of NGC 4866 was captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, an instrument on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble NASA Acknowledgement: Gilles Chapdelaine  Original Source

NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:28 PM PDT NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. Original Source

Phytoplankton Bloom in the Norwegian Sea Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:26 PM PDT The waters off Iceland rank among the world's most productive fisheries. The reason for the abundance is an ample supply of phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain. Like any plant, microscopic phytoplankton need sunlight and nutrients to survive. Iceland's coastal waters offer both during the long days of summer. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying aboard NASA's Aqua satellite acquired this true-color image of a large phytoplankton bloom in the Norwegian Sea, off of Iceland, on July 6, 2013. The range of colors from milky blue to green suggests that a range of different species make up this bloom, most likely including diatoms and perhaps chalky white coccolithophores, says Sergion Signorini, and ocean scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Floating in the water, phytoplankton act like tracers, revealing the course of mixing currents and the swirling eddies where they clash. A branch of the North Atlantic Current (the Gulf Stream) flows north, bringing warm Atlantic water to mix with the cold Arctic currents circling in from the east. Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz Original Source

Second Spacewalk Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:23 PM PDT Watch the second spacewalk of Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy on 16 July. Streaming (courtesy NASA) starts at 11:00 GMT (13:00 CEST) Original Source

Canyon fly-through Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:21 PM PDT Space science image of the week: Fly through part of the largest canyon on Mars Original Source

Trek to Mount Sharp Begins Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:20 PM PDT After busily exploring the Glenelg region of Gale Crater, Curiosity is moving on. The rover is starting a 5 mile, or about an 8 kilometer trek southwest towards the foothills of Mt Sharp. Original Source

Week in Images Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:18 PM PDT Our week through the lens: 08-12 July 2013 Original Source

Raystown Ray Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:39 PM PDT Earth observation image of the week: the man-made Raystown Lake in the US state of Pennsylvania, home to a Loch Ness Monster-like creature Original Source

NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:39 PM PDT Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away. Original Source

Blauer Exoplanet Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:38 PM PDT Where it rains and glass towers reach more than 7000 kilometers per hour Original Source

Luca Skywalker Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:37 PM PDT Original Source

Space Station Ocean Imager Available to More Scientists Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:37 PM PDT The International Space Station is expanding the use of its Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) instrument to more Earth scientists and environmental researchers.

Galileo spreads its wings Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:37 PM PDT   Deployment of the solar wings on the latest Galileo satellite is shown being checked at ESA's technical hub in the Netherlands. The navigation satellite's pair of 1 x 5 m solar wings, carrying more than 2500 state-of-the-art gallium arsenide solar cells, will power the satellite during its 12-year working life.  Original Source

Galileo's wings Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:36 PM PDT The latest Galileo satellite gains its solar wings during testing at ESA's technical heart Original Source

IP spin-off Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:35 PM PDT ESA patents go into business with Space Solutions University Challenge Original Souurce

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