NASA’s solar-powered spacecraft, Juno, recently captured images of a 2,200-mile-long black spot on the surface of Jupiter. What some thought was a never before seen phenomenon actually turned out to be the shadow of Jupiter's volcanic moon, Lo, eclipsing the sun.
British designer Lee Broom presented a range of outer-space-inspired lighting inside a listed building during last year's Milan design week.
"[It is] Lee Broom's most progressive work to date with new stellar-inspired designs playing with proportions of vertical and horizontal space, sculptural, spherical form, and the refraction and reflection of light."
British photographer Benedict Redgrove has takenphotographsof numerous artifacts within theNASAarchive. To mark the 50th anniversary of themoonlanding, he has picked out his favorites.
In the Gemini constellation - This cosmic region is so complicated that when astronomers first turned their attention to it years ago, they recorded two objects there because there is a symmetrical lobed structure visible there. Today, we know that there is only a single object. Still, in deference to older naming conventions, the region is often known as NGC 2371/2 — a combination of the two older names: NGC 2371 and NGC 2372.
For the last few years Aurora gazers have observed and reported “a wispy strand of purple light running across the country from east to west, sometimes flanked by neon green fingers that appear to wave.” This unique Aurora was given the nickname Steve.
Nasa has announced that they will be sending a drone like craft called Dragonfly to Titan, a moon of Saturn to map and sample the surface composition and terrain.