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Centaur 6A Rocket Lowered into the Space Power Chambers
Centaur 6A Rocket Lowered into the Space Power Chambers

The Centaur second-stage rocket was Lewis Research Center’s most enduring contribution to the space program.Centaur’s primary assignment was to carry…

A Change in the Air
A Change in the Air

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in…

Sunspot 1515 Release X1.1 Class Solar Flare
Sunspot 1515 Release X1.1 Class Solar Flare

This close-up image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the July 6, 2012 X-class flare captured in the…

Cosmic Cocoon
Cosmic Cocoon

Researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the…

AR1515 Says Farewell with M6.9 Class Solar Flare
AR1515 Says Farewell with M6.9 Class Solar Flare

This image was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shortly after the peak of the M6.9 flare and shows…

Independence Day Solar Fireworks
Independence Day Solar Fireworks

This image, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the M5.3 class solar flare that peaked on July 4, 2012,…

The Next Generation Spacecraft
The Next Generation Spacecraft

More than 450 guests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida welcomed the arrival of the agency’s first space-bound Orion…

Independence Day Solar Fireworks
Independence Day Solar Fireworks

This image, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the M5.3 class solar flare that peaked on July 4, 2012,…

Sunspot 1515 Release M6.1 Solar Flare
Sunspot 1515 Release M6.1 Solar Flare

Huge sunspot AR1515 has released another M-class flare this morning. At 7:39am EDT the active region released an M6.1 class…

Independence Day Fireworks
Independence Day Fireworks

This image shows four separate images of the M5.3 class flare from the morning of July 4, 2012. In clockwise…