The Size Of Our World
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This photograph was taken from on board the International Space Station as it passed above Sarychev Peak on Matua Island.

This is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril island chain, northeast of Japan.

A NASA spokesperson said the image "captures several phenomena that occur during the earliest stages of an explosive volcanic eruption." » Read More

Nice Photo Graph Taken By NASA... » Read More

You’ve probably never heard of Burkhard Heim. Not many people have. After all, he was rather reclusive, all of his work was published in German and his brief moment in the spotlight was in 1957 when he proposed an odd propulsion system that could easily achieve relativistic speeds. » Read More

CAPE CANAVERAL, May 11 -- Almost overlooked in the hoopla over Monday's launch of the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has been another piece of gee-whiz space technology that will soon be only a museum exhibit: the space shuttle. » Read More

The great telescope in space has an antenna with a hole in it the size of a .22-caliber bullet. One of the telescope's main cameras has died. So has an instrument called a spectrograph. Three of six stabilizing gyros are kaput. A data router failed, and a backup had to take over. The telescope is getting slower about latching onto guide stars. The batteries are running down. And the shiny exterio » Read More