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3 Mar 2015
- 22:30 UTC American Astronomic... From the Executive Office May the Task Force Be With You Every day I come into the AAS Executive Office, I am amazed at the high level of dedication and even devotion of our ...
- 22:00 UTC Southwest Research ... SwRI's Walker named Fellow of American Institute of Aeron... Walker to be formally recognized May 6 at AIAA Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala
- 21:40 UTC MIT Kavli Institute Fast Radio Bursts--What Can We Say About Emission Mechani... The pulse widths, dispersion measures and dispersion indices of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. Conventional single thin screen scattering models imply electron densities ...
- 19:42 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Available for Interviews befor... NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is making final preparations for his launch this month to spend a year living and working on the International Space Station, will be available for ...
- 18:42 UTC Gemini Observatory Far from Home: Wayward Cluster is Both Tiny and Distant Resources En Español GMOS image of Kim 2, in g band. The image is 4 arcminutes across. read more
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA-Funded Study Finds Two Solar Wind Jets in the Helios... New NASA-funded research found that the giant bubble around our solar system, the heliosphere, is much shorter and smaller than previously thought, dominated by two jets shooting out the north ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Hosts Events to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of N... NASA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its antecedent, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), with several events highlighting the historic committee’s contribution to the nation’s space program and ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut Steve Swanson Visits Washington with Open ... NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, who returned in September 2014 from 169 days of living and working aboard the International Space Station, is visiting the Washington area today through Thursday, March ...
- 15:58 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Matthew McGill - A Scientific Hybrid Innovator Matthew McGill is a hybrid - he can build instruments and do science.
- 15:57 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... The Sun Ushers in March with a Mid-class Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M8.2-class, peaking at 8:35 p.m. EST on March 2, 2015.
- 15:49 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Honeywell Bring Hip-Hop Education Show to Northeast... NASA and Honeywell kicks off the spring 2015 tour of "FMA Live! Forces in Motion" Monday with shows at Talley Middle School in Wilmington, Delaware, marking the 11th year of ...
- 15:48 UTC NASA Breaking News Media Invited to See Bigelow Expandable Space Station Mod... NASA and Bigelow Aerospace invite media to a photo and interview opportunity at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday, March 12, at Bigelow Aerospace’s North Las Vegas facility to mark the ...
- 14:45 UTC ESA Top News Honing skills Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: mission control team trains for Sentinel-2A launch
- 05:00 UTC MIT New technique allows analysis of clouds around exoplanets Team describes use of method to determine properties of clouds surrounding the exoplanet Kepler-7b. Meteorologists sometimes struggle to accurately predict the weather here on Earth, but now we can find ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life in Labor... NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
2 Mar 2015
- 20:34 UTC American Astronomic... March 2015 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics, is the most influential and closely followed physics magazine in the world. With authoritative features, full news coverage and ...
- 19:54 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Administrator Lauds Senator Mikulski for Championing... Statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Monday’s announcement by Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski of her plan to retire from Congress in 2016.
- 18:53 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Carnegie’s Hazen receives $1.4 million Keck grant Washington, D.C.—Carnegie’s Robert Hazen has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a three-year data-driven research project on the co-evolution of the planet’s biology and ...
- 17:56 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Spacecraft Nears Historic Dwarf Planet Arrival NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned new images captured on approach to its historic orbit insertion at the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn will be the first mission to successfully visit a ...
- 16:36 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronauts on Space Station to Speak Live with Dalla... NASA astronauts on the International Space Station will speak with students and faculty from the School for the Talented and Gifted (TAG Magnet) at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center in ...
- 16:00 UTC ESO Top News An Old-looking Galaxy in a Young Universe One of the most distant galaxies ever observed has provided astronomers with the first detection of dust in such a remote star-forming system and tantalising evidence for the rapid evolution ...
- 15:47 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Announcement of Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Scienti... Through this Announcement of Opportunity (AO) ESA solicits the participation of the scientific community in the role of Interdisciplinary Scientists (IDSs) in the JUICE mission. Proposals are due by 15 ...
- 13:29 UTC Square Kilometer Ar... High-level visit at the South African SKA site Over the weekend the Deputy President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa visited the South African Square Kilometre Array (SKA) site in Carnarvon in the Northern Cape. He was hosted by ...
- 13:18 UTC Science and Technol... JCMT now under new ownership Effective on March 1, 2015, the James Clark Maxwell Submillimetre Telescope (JCMT) is now being operated by the East Asian Observatory (EAO).
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Tuesday, 3 March at 14:00 CET as Wolfgang Pitz from Airbus Defence and Space discusses testing the Sentinel-2A satellite
- 12:28 UTC Institute of Astrop... The huge “Y” in the atmosphere of Venus due to a wave dis... The huge “Y” in the atmosphere of Venus due to a wave distorted by the wind 24/02/2015 When observed in the ultraviolet range, Venus’ atmosphere reveals to be covered by ...
- 09:31 UTC ESA Space Science Simulating space for JWST Space Science Image of the Week: Instruments for JWST have been tested in a vacuum chamber to ensure they can withstand the intense cold of space
- 07:00 UTC Planetary Science I... Brother Guy is Featured Speaker at PSI Dinner April 1 Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Pope’s Astronomer, will be the featured speaker at the Planetary Science Institute’s Annual Fundraising Dinner April 1 at the Hilton El Conquistador resort. Brother Guy’s presentation, ...
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... World's Largest Astronomy Lesson breaks world record Over 1,000 people joined in at the Shire of Kalamunda's 'World's Largest Astronomy Lesson' on the weekend, helping to break a Guinness World Record.
28 Feb 2015
- 21:15 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... TMT Scientists Discuss Serious Science and Classroom Fun ... TMT will participate again at this year's Journey Through The Universe's Family Science Day and Astronomy Educators in the Classroom. JTTU 2015 read more
- 08:00 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 23-27 February 2015
27 Feb 2015
- 22:53 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center Data from NASA's WISE mission have led to the discovery of two clusters of newborn stars thousands of light-years below the plane of our galaxy.
- 21:41 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... OSIRIS-REx Mission Successfully Completes System Integrat... This week marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for the OSIRIS-REx mission.
- 21:39 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... PhD Position in Planetary Seismology and Geodynamics PhD student opportunity at ETH-Zürich, Switzerland in anticipation of the upcoming Mars Insight mission. The Institute of Geophysics of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, seeks to appoint a motivated PhD student to ...
- 19:45 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Diamantino Sforza - Gentleman Farmer of Prince George's C... Diamantino Sforza is a gentleman farmer in the Italian tradition competing with his father for the "firsts" of the season.
- 19:34 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Sets Coverage for Launch of Magnetospheric Multiscal... NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is set to lift off at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 12 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ...
- 18:12 UTC Science@NASA 'Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles ...
- 17:38 UTC Science@NASA Puzzling Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Ceres Cruising through the asteroid belt, NASA Dawn spacecraft is approaching dwarf planet Ceres, and some puzzling features are coming into focus. Researchers are especially mystified by a pair of bright ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Administrator Remembers Leonard Nimoy
- 11:50 UTC Science and Technol... An Old-looking Galaxy in the Young Universe - ALMA and VL... A team of astronomers who set out to observe one of the youngest and most remote galaxies ever found have been surprised to discover a far more evolved system than ...
- 10:08 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Italy and ASI represented at the Ramon Conference in Isra... The Ilan Ramon International Space Conference – named after Colonel Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut who lost his life in the Columbia shuttle disaster in February 2003 along with ...
- 09:05 UTC ESA Top News Brussels Earth observation image of the week: a false-colour image of Belgium's capital, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
26 Feb 2015
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... New NASA Earth Missions Expand View of Home Planet Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space - with a fifth newly in orbit - after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than ...
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... New NASA Earth Missions Expand View of Home Planet Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space - with a fifth newly in orbit - after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than ...
- 19:40 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Africa, From a CATS Point of View From Saharan dust storms to icy clouds to smoke on the opposite side of the continent, the first image from NASA’s newest cloud- and aerosol-measuring instrument provides a profile of ...
- 19:30 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Meet the Members of NASA’s GPM Constellation When NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission proposed to gather worldwide rain and snow data every three hours, they turned to the international community for help.
- 19:26 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... 3-D Views of February Snow Storms from GPM The Global Precipitation Mission's Core Observatory measured in three dimensions precipitation from two February storms in the U.S.
- 19:20 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Study of Atmospheric 'Froth' May Help GPS Communications A new study of Earth's ionosphere, a part of the upper atmosphere, could have applications for better GPS communications.
- 19:18 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... New NASA Space Cowboy Successfully Deploys Its 'Lasso' Like a cowboy at a rodeo, NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), has triumphantly raised its "arm" and unfurled a huge golden "lasso" (antenna).
- 18:38 UTC NASA Breaking News New NASA Earth Science Missions Expand View of Our Home P... Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space – with a fifth newly in orbit – after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than ...