Photo of the Day How bright and strange will the tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS become? The comet has brightened dramatically over the few weeks as it passed its closest to the Sun and, just three days ago, passed its closest to the Earth. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) became of the brightest comets of the past [...]
Photo of the Day What happens if a star gets too close to a black hole? The black hole can rip it apart -- but how? It's not the high gravitational attraction itself that's the problem -- it's the difference in gravitational pull across the star that creates the destruction. In the featured animated [...]
animation scenes depict NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket for a new era of human exploration in deep space. The Artemis I Moon mission is the first integrated flight of SLS and the uncrewed Orion spacecraft. NASA’s iconic Logotype “Worm” logo is on the side of each solid rocket booster. The [...]
