Water in Outer Space...NASA Psyche(d)!!!

Psyche Asteroid in Asteroid Belt

Water in Outer Space! Seriously, seeing the condition of water on our Earth it's kind of a big discovery. Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in our solar system which is about 300 km across and is made of almost pure nickel-iron metal. This asteroid provided the NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii evidences of water or hydroxyl on its surface. Though, in earlier observation no evidences of water rich materials was found. So, kind of strange!

Last week Space Flight Launches

November 2: 

Satellite Name:   HIMAWARI 9

Location          :  Tanegashima Space Center Pad 1, Japan

Time                :  3:20 PM JST (UTC+9)

Agency            :  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Himawari-9 aims to offer more detailed and more timely image of storms, clouds and other weather systems to forecasters in Japan and across the Western Pacific.

November 3:  

Satellite Name:   SHIJIAN-17

Location          :  Wenchang Space Center LA-1, China

Time                :  6:00 PM CST (UTC+8)

Agency            :  China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation(CASC)

It was an experimental satellite that will perform experiments with ion propulsion for station keeping.

Picture Of The Day 

M63: The Sunflower Galaxy from Hubble
Image Credit: ESA, NASA, Hubble

About The Picture: One of the bright spiral galaxies visible in the north sky is M63, the Sunflower Galaxy. M63, also catalogued as NGC 5055, can be found with a small telescope toward the constellation of Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici). The featured picture from the Hubble Space Telescope exhibits the center of M63, complete with long winding spiral arms glowing blue from a few bright young stars,emission nebulae glowing red from hot ionized hydrogen gas, and dark dust in numerous filaments. Light takes about 35 million years to reach us from M63, and about 60,000 years to cross the spiral galaxy. Stars in the outer regions of the Sunflower Galaxy rotate about the center at a speed so high that, given the matter seen and assuming normal gravity, they should fly off into space. The fact that the stars remain indicates the presence of sort of invisible, gravitationally-binding, dark matter.

Launches, stars, comets, that was a space adventure. Enjoy this space adventure and don't forget to bookmark OrbView.

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