"Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. In 1961, the IBM 7094 became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell. Vocals were programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum and the accompaniment was...

The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest and most powerful particle accelerator, will begin operation this year in a quest to answer some of the most intriguing questions in physics. One of its missions will be to...

A infrared mosaic from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (images taken Sept 3, 2004 and Sept 15, 2005) offers a stunning view of the stellar hustle and bustle that takes place at our Milky Way galaxy's center. The picture...

Watch a NASA animation zooming in on a black hole as you listen to black hole sounds. The sounds are X-ray data from GRS 1915+105, translated into audible pulsations by MITs Edward Morgan. This black hole is a...

Sound Of Neptune In Space

There's alot of arguing on here about sound in space. Obviously sound needs a medium to pass through, to vibrate through so that it can carry the sound waves. Space has no air, and therefore cannot project sound in...

From an original CD: Uranus NASA-VOYAGER

The magnificent spiral galaxy M83 lies 15 million light-years away in the southern sky. Peering into one of the galaxy's spiral arms, the Hubble Space Telescope's new Wide Field Camera 3 is giving astronomers a detailed...

Frank De Winne on the ISS is answering Paul's question from Portugal: When you do your EVA (space walk), can you feel the speed (28.000 Km/h) at which the ISS is travelling?

Computer generated animation of Helen rocket flight in Google Lunar XPrize competition

his animation reveals the topography and beauty of the Orion Nebula like never before. Based on data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, all of the gas clouds, stars and proplyds are positioned as accurately as...

The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest and most powerful particle accelerator, will begin operation this year in a quest to answer some of the most intriguing questions in physics. One of its missions will be to...

This powerful 700mm reflector scope offers rugged portability and a trip to the distant stars for the avid young astronomer intent on detailed, deep-sky viewing. It boasts three all-glass precision optics eyepieces...

For the first time a multiwavelength threedimensional 3D reconstruction of a supernova remnant has been created.

Cassiopeia A is the 300yearold remnant created by the supernova explosion of a massive star. Each Great Observatory image highlights different characteristics of the remnant.

A multiwavelength three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of a supernova remnant. This is a stunning visualization of Cassiopeia A (Cas A), the result of an explosion approximately 330 years ago. It seemed a bit lonely so I...

How Earth observation can help us understand our planet?

The SMOS mission in operation

What is the objective of the SMOS mission?