Here’s a recipe for a memorable Sunday: great art, architecture, and family fun with plenty of local historical discoveries. The best part? It’s all free. On May 19, 2013 the 24th annual Museums of the Arroyo (MOTA) Day invites the public to tour five muse... More »
Artist concept of Mars Exploration Rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status Report During a moratorium on commanding this month while Mars passed nearly behind the sun – a phase called solar conjunction — NASA’s Mars Explorat... More »
Cool Andromeda Andromeda, also known as M31, is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way. Image credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS & SPIRE Consortium, O. Krause, HSC, H. Linz The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instrume... More »
The Rose The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 k... More »
Five images of Saturn’s rings, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, show clouds of material ejected from impacts of small objects into the rings. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Cornell NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has ... More »
The entry, descent and landing team of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project received the 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on April 24, 2013. Pictured here in the back row are the following members of the ... More »
The public will be able to fly along with NASA’s Voyager spacecraft as the twin probes head towards interstellar space, which is the space between stars. As indicated in this artist’s concept, a regularly updated gauge using data from the two spacecraft will i... More »
This map shows the distribution of water in the stratosphere of Jupiter as measured with the Herschel space observatory. White and cyan indicate highest concentration of water, and blue indicates lesser amounts. The map has been superimposed over an image of J... More »
The tiny red spot in this image is one of the most efficient star-making galaxies ever observed, converting gas into stars at the maximum possible rate. The galaxy is shown here in an image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which first sp... More »
The HyspIRI airborne campaign overflew California’s San Andreas Fault on March 29, 2013. The three-color (red, green, blue) composite image of the fault (left), composed from AVIRIS data, is similar to what a snapshot from a consumer camera would show. The ent... More »
Kepler-62 and the Solar System The artist’s concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Calte... More »
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has broken ground on a new Education and Visitor Center scheduled to open in early 2015. The $60 million project features 6.5 acres of new gardens and about 43,000 square feet of educational facili... More »
