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- 13 May 2013
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13:09 UTC
ESA Top News
Leak repaired on International Space Station
Over the weekend the crew of the International Space Station worked overtime to fix a leaking cooling network outside the orbital outpost. Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn ventured into ...
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12:08 UTC
ESA Top News
Earth from Space
Join us Tuesday, 14 May, at 14:00 CEST as ESA’s Stephen Coulson joins the show to discuss how banks use satellite data
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09:47 UTC
Royal Astronomical ...
OUR BEAUTIFUL UNIVERSE: Planetary nebula or microorganism...
Planetary nebula IC 1295. (ESO) This glowing green bubble is planetary nebula IC 1295, which lies about 3300 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. A star of around the same ...
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09:30 UTC
ESA Top News
Galaxy zoom
Space science image of the week: a space-time magnifying glass by the Hubble space telescope
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06:19 UTC
Harvard-Smithsonian...
New Method of Finding Planets Scores its First Discovery
May 13, 2013: Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Impacts of Strong Solar Flares
Some people worry that a gigantic "killer solar flare" could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
Space Station Expedition 35 Astronauts Land Safely in Kaz...
Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, wrapping up a mission lasting almost five ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Marshall Space...
Scheuermann to Host Center Director's Breakfast
Patrick Scheuermann will discuss the Marshall Center's activities and outlook at the annual Marshall Center Director's Breakfast on Wednesday, May 15.
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13:09 UTC
ESA Top News
- 12 May 2013
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22:00 UTC
CERN
CERN inaugurates a scientific tourist trail, the Passport...
On 2 June 2013 CERN1, in collaboration with its local partners, will be inaugurating a scientific tourist trail through the Pays de Gex and the Canton of Geneva known as ...
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22:00 UTC
CERN
- 10 May 2013
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23:47 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Robotic Refueling Mission Practices New Tasks
RRM uses the space station as a test bed for repair and refueling maneuvers to prepare for in orbit satellite-servicing tasks.
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23:15 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Stat...
NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 ...
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19:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
New Telescope Set for Launch May 11 from New Mexico
NASA will launch a new telescope designed to observe distant galaxies on a suborbital sounding rocket at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New ...
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18:55 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
More Webb Telescope Mirrors Delivered
Another delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight mirrors arrived at a NASA facility during the week of April 29, 2013.
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18:45 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Hubble Tells a Tale of Galactic Collisions
2MASX is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy which emits a tremendous amount of light at infrared wavelengths. Scientists connect this to intense star formation.
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18:43 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Solar Eclipse's Shadow on Earth
On May 10, 2013, the sun experienced what's called an annular eclipse -- when the moon moves directly in front of the sun, but doesn't obscure it completely....
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18:11 UTC
NASA Breaking News
Media Accreditation Open For Launch Of NASA's Next Missio...
International and U.S. media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission.
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16:07 UTC
Science@NASA
Planets Aligning in the Sunset Sky
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter are lining up for a beautiful sunset conjunction at the end of May.
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09:29 UTC
ESA Top News
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 06-10 May 2013
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Solar Eclipse on May 10
On May 10, 2013, Earth, the sun and the moon lined up to create a solar eclipse visible from the South Pacific.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Extends Safety and Mission Assurance Contract at Mar...
NASA has exercised a second two-year award term option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services to support the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the agency's Marshall ...
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23:47 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
- 9 May 2013
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23:28 UTC
Thirty Meter Telesc...
Request for Proposal for TMT Geotechnical Investigation –...
Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for the TMT Mauna Kea Geotechnical Investigation – Submission Date: June 15, 2013 RFP - 2013 - TMT Geotechnical Investigation Exhibit A - RFP - TMT ...
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23:28 UTC
Thirty Meter Telesc...
Request for Proposal for TMT Geotechnical Investigation –...
Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for the TMT Mauna Kea Geotechnical Investigation – Submission Date: June 15, 2013 RFP - 2013 - TMT Geotechnical Investigation Exhibit A - RFP - TMT ...
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21:26 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Curiosity Rover Wins Prestigious Awards
Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
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20:59 UTC
NASA Lunar Science ...
NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the Phone...
Cell phone photos sent from space were reconstructed by the Ames Phonesat Team with the help of multiple amateur radio operators around the world. The ultimate goal of the PhoneSat ...
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19:14 UTC
Carnegie Institutio...
Where on Earth Did the Moon’s Water Come From?
Washington, D.C.— Water is perhaps the most important molecule in our solar system. Figuring out where it came from and how it was distributed within and among the planets can ...
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19:05 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target ...
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling.
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NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target ...
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling.
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19:00 UTC
Canadian Space Agen...
RADARSAT-1: Seventeen Years of Technological Success
Longueuil, Quebec, May 9, 2013 – On March 29, 2013, Canada's first Earth Observation satellite, RADARSAT-1, experienced a technical anomaly after surpassing its expected lifetime by 12 years. In the ...
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18:02 UTC
Lawrence Berkeley N...
Mathematics of Popping Bubbles in a Foam
Bubble baths and soapy dishwater, the refreshing head on a beer and the luscious froth on a cappuccino. All are foams, beautiful yet ephemeral as the bubbles pop one by ...
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17:08 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Sifting Through the Atmospheres of Far-off Worlds
Researchers have begun taking infrared pictures of planets posing near their stars in family portraits.
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15:51 UTC
Carnegie Institutio...
Geophysicist Lyman Tomas Aldrich Dies
Washington, D.C.— Lyman Thomas Aldrich, 95, who worked as a geophysicist and geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) for 34 years, including a stint ...
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15:10 UTC
Science and Technol...
Gemini laser shows that Einstein's flying mirror thought-...
Experimental results obtained using the Gemini laser in STFC's Central Laser Facility and published in Nature Communications are the first to demonstrate that laser light reflected from a ultrathin foil ...
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14:30 UTC
Canadian Space Agen...
Astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth
Longueuil, Quebec, May 9, 2013 – The end of Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield's mission is fast approaching. Media representatives are invited to CSA Headquarters for the live ...
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14:00 UTC
HubbleSite NewsCent...
Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris
Get larger image formats Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. ...
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14:00 UTC
Hubble Space Telesc...
Science Release: Hubble finds dead stars 'polluted' with ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white ...
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13:00 UTC
Universe Awareness ...
Rising From Ashes
Like the legendary phoenix (or Fawkes, if you're a Harry Potter fan), a number of Earth-like planets have been spotted rising from the ashes of a pair of burnt-out stars, ...
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Universe Awareness ...
Uit de as herrezen
Net als de legendarische feniks (of Felix, als fan bent van Harry Potter), zijn een aantal Aardachtige planeten gespot die uit de as van een paar uitgebrande sterren zijn herrezen, ...
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07:00 UTC
ESA Top News
Earth from Space
Join us Friday, 10 May, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
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04:00 UTC
NASA: Kepler News a...
Kepler Mission Manager Update
During a scheduled contact, engineers discovered Kepler was in a self-protective mode. The spacecraft returned to science data collection on May 6.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target ...
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Mars has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Wins Prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards
Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Commercial Partner Sierra Nevada Completes Safety Re...
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, Colo., has completed its first major, comprehensive safety review of its Dream Chaser Space System.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Statement on New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
The following is a statement from NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology Michael Gazarik about Thursday's announcement from the Obama Administration that it is launching competitions to create three new ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Administrator Tours Advanced Aviation Technology At ...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will see technologies NASA is developing to make flying and the national air transportation system safer, cleaner and more efficient during a trip to NASA's Langley ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Partners With Ohio Non-Profit on Unmanned Air Challe...
NASA has selected Development Projects Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned aircraft systems in 2014.
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Goddard Invites Children, Families to Learn About Contami...
This May edition of Sunday Experiment will uncover the world of thermal coating and contamination engineering.
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Marshall Islands Campaign Completed
The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket on May 9 brought to an end a very successful campaign studying ionospheric activity and its impact on radio, communication and ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
New Public Application of Landsat Images Released
Google has compiled more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space into an interactive time-lapse experience.
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00:00 UTC
Science and Technol...
Nuclear physicists observe pear-shaped atomic nuclei
Existing theories on the shape and structure of atomic nuclei have been put to the test as an international team of nuclear physicists have discovered that some can be 'pear' ...
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23:28 UTC
Thirty Meter Telesc...
- 8 May 2013
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20:54 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Awards Contract to Modify Mobile Launcher
NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket to ...
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20:54 UTC
NASA Breaking News



