| 1. USAF Launches New AEHF 2 Satellite |
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off with the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) satellite from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 2:42 p.m. EDT on May 4, 2012. [Full Photo Gallery]
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| 2. Contemplating the Night Sky: Young Skywatchers Admire Venus, Moon & Jupiter |
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Three little skywatchers look on in wonder as they witness the recent conjunction between Jupiter, Venus and the Moon. The image was taken by Stefano De Rosa from Turin, Italy on March 25. [Full Story]
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| 3. Gallery: SpaceX's 1st Mission to Space Station - How It Works |
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A step-by-step photo look at how SpaceX's inaugural flight to the International Space Station will work. [Full Photo Gallery]
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| 4. Black Hole Unleashes Extraordinarily Bright X-Ray Burst |
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered an extraordinary outburst by a black hole in the spiral galaxy M83, located about 15 million light years from Earth. [Full Story]
Photo Credit: Left image - Optical: ESO/VLT; Close-up - X-ray: NASA/CXC/Curtin University/R. Soria et al., Optical: NASA/STScI/Middlebury College/F. Winkler et al.
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| 5. Spectacular Photo Reveals Bright Nebula Near Orion's Belt |
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A new image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of Orion’s Belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula like a string of pearls. [Full Story]
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| 6. Photos: Visiting Death Valley With Mars Rover Curiosity Crew |
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Photos of SPACE.com reporter Mike Wall's recent trip to Death Valley with the lead scientist for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. [Full Photo Gallery]
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| 7. Star Trek Fans to Launch Kirk & Picard to Edge of Space |
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A group of Trekkies has united to launch Captain Kirk and Captain Picard - their action figures, that is - into space in a high-altitude balloon. [Full Story]
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| 8. Amazing Photos of 2 Saturn Moons Snapped by Cassini Probe |
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft took some spectacular photos of the Saturn moons Dione and Enceladus earlier this week. [Full Story]
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| 9. Gallery: Dying Stars Consume Rocky Alien Planets |
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In this artist's impression, the host star is running out of hydrogen in the core. It is also losing mass, which causes the planets to move further out. The perturbation of the orbits may lead to collisions that will generate large amounts of rocky debris.[Full Photo Gallery]
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| 10. Why the 'Supermoon' Will Look Largest Near the Horizon |
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For reasons still unknown to science, the moon appears much larger and more magnificent when it is near the horizon than when it is soaring overhead, despite the fact that the moon's size never actually changes.[Full Story]
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Top image: An X-ray image of the spiral galaxy 83 (left) and M78 nebular complex in the constellation Orion (right).
[Note: Some photos from the original article have already been shown in my previous posts here and here, and are therefore not repeated in this post.]
[Source: SPACE.com. Edited. Top image added.]
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