NASA Images Reveal Weird Shape of Saturn’s Moon Pan
After studying Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has finally given us a close-up view of its small moon Pan. And it shows how strange the Saturn moon is.
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It’s a ravioli! It’s a UFO! It’s a moon
NASA on Thursday released pictures of Pan, one of Saturn's many moons, and its distinctive shape is drawing comparisons to flying saucers and stuffed pasta. The images of the moon come courtesy of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and reveal the UFO-like form of the tiny satellite, which has an average radius of just 8.8 miles.
Watch This: In space, no one can…
Granted, it's not up there with the big questions of the universe, but at least one Canadian student wondered, and he got an answer from an astronaut on the International Space Station.
Nasa live feed mysteriously cuts as ‘six large UFOs’ creep past International Space Station
Nasa is accused of cutting from the live feed to a camera in their briefing room as soon as the orbs appear on screen Unusual footage taken from Nasa's live feed of the International Space Station appears to show six large orbs creeping past. In the live video, relayed by the American space agency, the UFOs move from the right of the screen towards the left.
Blue Jets Swirl Above Thunderstorm in Photo from Space Station
In views from the International Space Station, a mysterious set of electrical discharges shine above a roiling thunderstorm in Earth's upper atmosphere. Andreas Mogensen, a European Space Agency astronaut who flew in 2015, took pictures over thunderstorms to try to see the strange atmospheric features, which are sometimes called red sprites, blue jets, pixies and elves.
NASA: Space Alters Your DNA In Bizarre Ways
Does going into space fundamentally change our biology? It's not a casual question. Human beings evolved to live in a very specific ecological niche, and no matter how tough DNA is , nature never planned for us to sit on a pile of explosives and fling ourselves into an airless void full of rocks and ionizing radiation.
Some Bizarre Black Holes Put On Light Shows
An artist's rendering of a black hole that's 2 billion times more massive than our sun. Streams of particles ejected from black holes like this one are thought to be the brightest objects in the universe.