Hubble finds storms rage in springtime on Uranus A dramatic new time-lapse movie created from Hubble Space Telescope images shows for the first time seasonal changes on Uranus. Once considered one of the blander-looking planets, Uranus is now revealed as a dynamic world with the brightest clouds in the outer Solar System and a fragile ring system that wobbles like an unbalanced wagon wheel.FULL STORY |
Stars in the Tarantula Nebula The latest image to be released in the Hubble Heritage Program shows a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers as Hodge 301, inside the Tarantula Nebula in our nearest galactic neighbour, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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"God speed John Glenn": a space anniversary Thirty seven years ago John Glenn became the first American to orbit the planet, lifting off aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral in Florida. To celebrate the anniversary, we present Glenn's official pilot's report about the historic flight.
A new look at the Moon The Clementine mission, staged by the U.S. Department of Defense provided the world with a new close up look at the lunar surface in more than 20 years. Read Peter Bond's article from the March 1995 issue of Astronomy Now.
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