ASTROB The African Space Agency

10/11/2019

Moon Dust Is Abrasive With Everything! Apollo Crew Members Smelled And Even Tasted It. It Could Be A Problem For Future Lunar Explorers

Lunar dust is abrasive and gets into everything.

23/03/2019

NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars

The Mars Helicopter will launch with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover and should arrive on the Red Planet in early 2021.

08/03/2019

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is simple — click on the boulders you see in a detailed image of a distant space rock.

29/01/2019

The Long Gas Tail of Spiral Galaxy D100 is 200000 light-years long!

It's 400000 times the mass of our sun and stars are forming within it!

29/01/2019

WE’RE MORE SERIOUS

A radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., was the first to listen for signals from intelligent aliens in 1960. Now scientists are using another instrument, the Green Bank Telescope (shown), to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

10/01/2019

Stars like our Sun turn into crystals late in life

Though astronomers have long theorized such crystallization occurs in aging Sun-like stars, new research finally has uncovered direct evidence

Our sun itself will become a crystal White Dwarf in about 10 billion years

15/12/2018

This is NASA InSight’s first full selfie on Mars. It displays the lander’s solar panels and deck. The selfie was taken on Dec. 6, 2018

03/12/2018

Black holes are powerful enough to distort spacetime.
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They are parts of spacetime displaying such powerful gravitational pull that nothing – even light – can escape. Black holes were thought to take on the shape of a donut. But scientists now need to re-write the astronomical rulebooks after proving black holes actually resemble 3D fountains

03/12/2018

Last Monday saw the culmination of a seven-month, 300m-mile journey, when the NASAInsight probe arrived on Mars. The spacecraft slammed into the Martian atmosphere at 12,300mph.
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InSight’s mission is to map the deep interior of Mars and Nasa is also planning a rover mission for 2020, to investigate signs of primitive life they believe exists under the surface.

17/09/2018

Dark Molecular Cloud Barnard 68 is about 500 light-years away

Where did all the stars go? What used to be considered a hole in the sky is now known to astronomers as a dark molecular cloud

It is not known exactly how molecular clouds like Barnard 68 form, but it is known that these clouds are themselves likely places for new stars to form

Image Credit: ASTROB The African Space Agency