NASA Tests 3-D Printed Engine Components

Calcite Cluster on Matrix

Locality:  Stoneco Auglaize Quarry (Maumee Stone Co. Quarry), Junction, Paulding Co., Ohio.

Saturn,cassini

“Comets are like cats; they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

David H. Levy (discoverer of Sheomaker-Levy 9 comet, the one which impacted on Jupiter)

The Handle 2 camera, another doomed Kodak instant, 1979.

Breathtaking views just keep coming! At a distance of 63,400 miles above the cloud tops of Jupiter’s South Pole, the Juno spacecraft reveals incredibly detailed views of the planet’s powerful cyclones and storms.

(Image credit: NASA / MSSS / SwRI / JPL / Caltech. Reprocessing Roman Tkachenko)

NGC 1291 This 12 billion year old barred galaxy is located in the Eridanus constellation. Young stars dot the outskirts of the galaxy (shown in red) and older stars reside in the center (shown in blue).

Cometary Globules

The orbit of Jupiter protects the Earth from asteroids.