The public is invited to help celebrate Black History Month in Pasadena by participating in any or all of the numerous special events, parade and other great activities planned throughout February. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Saturday Feb. 2 â... More »
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s ISS-RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring. It will be install... More »
The percussion drill in the turret of tools at the end of the robotic arm of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been positioned in contact with the rock surface in this image from the rover’s front Hazard-Avoidance Camera (Hazcam). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ... More »
The ring-like swirls of dust filling the Andromeda galaxy stand out colorfully in this new image from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/NHSC Two new eye-catch... More »
Join the Pasadena Public Library and City of Hope for an evening with David “Sonny†Lacks on Thursday, February 28, 7 p.m. at Central Library’s Donald R. Wright Auditorium, 285 E. Walnut St. Lacks is the son of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken wit... More »
Two remarkable collections representing the twin pillars of 19th-century American history—the Civil War and westward expansion—were among the items purchased recently at the 16th annual meeting of its Library Collectors’ Cou... More »
The sprawling pattern of urban development that we know today as Los Angeles was directly influenced by a web of urban rail routes developed by Henry Huntington and his Pacific Electric Railway, aka, “The Red Cars,†which began in 1901. This amazing railwa... More »
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this series of pictures of sand dunes in the north polar region of Mars. The area covered in each of the five panels is about 0.8 mile (1.3 kilometers)... More »
This artist’s concept shows the Euclid spacecraft. The telescope will launch to an orbit around the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. The Lagrange point is a location where the gravitational pull of two large masses, the sun and Earth in this case, precisely equals... More »
MAHLI’s First Night Imaging of Martian Rock, White Lighting This image of a Martian rock illuminated by white-light LEDs (light emitting diodes) is part of the first set of nighttime images taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the ro... More »
Nearly 500 design enthusiasts and architecture aficionados joined the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts (PSHA) in the City of Arcadia this past Friday for their annual Empty House Party. Held at a stunning 1941 Monterey Colonial style estate that was design... More »
A full-scale model of the Curiosity Mars rover as well as ‘the first image of Mars’ will be on display at the Jan. 23 premier of ‘The Changing Face of Mars’ at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Space enthusiasts will be able to get “... More »
