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Forty-eight hours ago, Bobak Ferdowsi had fewer than 200 Twitter followers. This morning, he has almost 40,000. Ferdowsi, also known as "Nasa Mohawk Guy", became an internet sensation after his unusual hairdo caught the eye of those watching the Mars Curiosity landing on Nasa TV. Within hours, he was a trending topic on Tumblr and became a trending hashtag on Twitter. He's been immortalised in im

Active Region 1476 has now rotated to the right side of the sun's disk. It has been quiet for a few days, but erupted with an M-class flare that peaked at 9:47 PM EDT on May 16, 2012. A coronal mass ejection or CME was also associated with the flare. It burst from the sun at 9:48 PM EDT and is traveling at over 930 miles per second. NASA models suggest that it will not impact Earth and cause a ge

Knitted-together footage of the Earth, sky, and stars as seen from the International Space StationVimeo user Tomislav Safundžić knitted NASA footage into this beautiful time-lapse video of Earth -- its continents, seas, the lights of cities -- and the surrounding sky and stars as they appear from the International Space Station. As astronaut Ron Garan wrote here on The Atlantic last December, see

On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew. He is also known as @Astro_Wheels on twitter, where he has been tweeting space photos to his followers since he arrived at the space station....

Angry Birds Space, Rovio Mobile’s first genuinely new game in a year, has some humble origins.



The idea for Angry Birds Space actually originated in a challenge NASA made to Rovio nearly a year ago on Twitter. Asserting that smartphones today have more computing power than the machines that powered the lunar landing in 1969, NASA said it would help Rovio launch birds if pigs could fly in space