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19 Feb 2014
- 18:55 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, is being unraveled with the help of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.
- 17:47 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Orbiter Views Opportunity Rover on Ridge A new image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at work on "Murray Ridge," without any new impact craters nearby.
- 16:37 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Clouds circling supermassive black holes Astronomers see huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies. Once thought to be a relatively uniform, fog-like ring, the accreting matter instead forms clumps ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces 2014 Innovations in Climate Education Trib... NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has awarded nearly $3 million in new cooperative agreements to four Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) across the United States to enhance ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... RXTE Reveals the Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies A new study of RXTE's 16-year archive triples the number of known instances where clouds of gas have dimmed our view of active galaxies' X-rays.
- 14:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... The Many Faces of our Night Sky Unlike many other subjects, like history and mathematics, science doesn’t have to be learnt from a book, you can really experience it. After all, science is the study of the ...
- 14:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... De vele gezichten van onze sterrenhemel In tegenstelling tot andere vakken, zoals geschiedenis of wiskunde, hoef je de natuurwetenschappen niet uit een boek te leren. Je kunt ze echt beleven! De natuurwetenschappen zijn ten slotte het ...
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News Diamonds in the Tail of the Scorpion A new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the bright star cluster Messier 7. Easily spotted with the naked eye close to the tail of the constellation ...
- 07:17 UTC ESA Space Science ESA selects planet-hunting PLATO mission A space-based observatory to search for planets orbiting alien stars has been selected today as ESA’s third medium-class science mission. It is planned for launch by 2024.
- 07:00 UTC National Optical As... Astronomers at the National Observatory Continue to Watch... The astronomical community was very excited by the appearance of a supernova in a relatively nearby galaxy in late January 2014. Observations of this supernova, located in the galaxy M ...
- 00:06 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... The Asteroid Impact Hazard: Historical Perspective The basic motivation for detection and deflection of potentially hazardous asteroids is public safety. This is a societal issue as well as a scientific one. David Morrison (NASA Ames & ...
18 Feb 2014
- 23:17 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Administrator Addresses Media on Orion Recovery Oper... NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will address media at 9 a.m. PST Saturday, Feb. 22 at U.S. Naval Base San Diego following testing of splashdown recovery operations for the agency's Orion ...
- 21:23 UTC Gemini Observatory Gemini North Back On-sky: Dome Repairs Complete Figure 1. Gemini North showing the crane used to lift the drive unit back into place. read more
- 19:17 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Runaway Pulsar Firing an Extraordinary Jet An extraordinary jet trailing behind a runaway pulsar is seen in this composite image.
- 18:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Watches Stars' Clockwork Motion in Nearby Galaxy Get larger image formats Using the sharp-eyed NASA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time precisely measured the rotation rate of a galaxy based on the clock-like movement ...
- 16:52 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... John Durning - Doing Extreme Work at Goddard and at Home James Webb Space Telescope Deputy Project Manager John F. Durning and his team are looking for the first lights after the big bang.
- 16:00 UTC Isaac Newton Group ... Announcement of Opportunity for Observing Time in Semeste... ING Announcement of Opportunity for Observing Time in Semester 2014B.
- 16:00 UTC Isaac Newton Group ... Call for Proposals to be supported via the OPTICON Trans-... The OPTICON common TAC call for EU supported access to telescopes in semester 2014B has been opened. The announcement is here: http://www.astro-opticon.org/fp7/tna/opticon_call_new.html
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Wildfires in Florida Wildfires can occur year-round in Florida due to its warm climate combined with ongoing moderate drought conditions. A large portion of the state is under a "moderate" fire danger index. ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Satellites See Arctic Surface Darkening Faster The retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice is diminishing Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated.
- 15:51 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Heavy Flavor Tracker for STAR Studies of the quark-gluon plasma – the primordial soup of quarks and gluons whose brief existence after the big bang set the stage for the universe we know today – ...
- 15:39 UTC NASA Breaking News International Space Station Crew to Talk with Students in... Students and faculty from California State University, Los Angeles, along with high school students from the Alliance Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science High School, will gather at the ...
- 13:46 UTC ESA Top News Space swan: Cygnus Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: first Cygnus spacecraft seen from International Space Station
- 08:24 UTC ESA Top News Sharp-eyed Proba-V works around the clock More than 5000 images, 65 daily global maps and six 10-day global syntheses, plus a quick peek at the Olympics: in its first two months of work, the vegetation-monitoring Proba-V ...
17 Feb 2014
- 16:19 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Cluster:2nd Announcement of Opportunity for Cluster Guest... This Announcement of Opportunity solicits special operation proposals for participation in the Guest Investigator (GI) Programme of the Cluster extended mission from the European Space Agency (ESA). The aim of ...
- 14:45 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Tuesday, 18 February at 14:00 CET as Carolin Richter and Stephen Briggs discuss satellite Earth observation for the Global Climate Observing System
- 09:00 UTC ESA Top News Where’s Gaia? Space science image of the week: Before aiming at the stars, you must know where you are. How astronomers are monitoring Gaia
- 08:45 UTC ESA Top News Inside astronaut Alexander’s head The clock is ticking: in 100 days ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will be launched to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and cosmonaut commander Maxim Surayev.
15 Feb 2014
- 17:22 UTC American Astronomic... First Golden Goose Award of 2014 Goes to Larry Smarr Larry Smarr, a physicist whose work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on calculating black-hole collisions led him to champion a federal commitment to dramatically enhance U.S. computing power ...
- 02:44 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Responding to Potential Asteroid Redirect Mission Targets NASA is pursuing new partnerships and collaborations to accelerate existing work to find near-Earth asteroids and know what to do about them.
14 Feb 2014
- 22:54 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Space Station SPHERES Run Circles Around Ordinary Satelli... Four current and upcoming SPHERES projects are of particular significance to NASA exploration and anyone who uses communications systems on Earth.
- 22:20 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Completes First ATTREX Science Mission Lengthy science flight over Western Pacific tracked changes in upper atmosphere to help researchers understand how the changes affect Earth's climate.
- 22:20 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Kepler Mission Manager Update: K2 spacecraft operation te... During one of the demonstration tests, the known planet-hosting star WASP-28 was observed while in K2's field of view. The observation proves the repurposed spacecraft can still detect planets!
- 21:11 UTC Arianespace Press R... Another Vega launcher for Arianespace takes shape at the ... The launcher for Arianespace's initial Vega flight of 2014 began its build-up this week at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the first step in a mission campaign that will ...
- 21:09 UTC Science@NASA Mars Rover Solves Doughnut Riddle Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars ...
- 20:45 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Looks Into Terzan 7 Named after its discoverer, the French-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan, this is the globular cluster Terzan 7 — a densely packed ball of stars bound together by gravity. It lies just ...
- 19:30 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving 'Doughnut' Riddle Researchers determine the Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
- 19:29 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Data Find Some Hope for Water in Aral Sea Basin A new study using NASA satellite data finds that water prospects for the Aral Sea watershed are better than previously thought.
- 17:58 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... LADEE Sends Its First Images of the Moon Back to Earth A series of LADEE star tracker images features the lunar terrain. Series of LADEE star tracker images features the lunar terrain. Image Credit: NASA Ames Earlier this month, NASA’s Lunar ...
- 16:55 UTC Science@NASA 10 More Years for the ISS With the space station no longer "under construction," the world's most advanced orbital laboratory is open for business. The station has just received a 10-year extension from NASA, giving researchers ...
- 15:05 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Hosts Launch of NASA-Inspired Book Series The event, part of the "NASA-Inspired Works of Fiction" series, is free and open to the public. It will be held Feb. 19, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at ...
- 14:40 UTC ESA Top News Week in Images Our week through the lens: 10-14 February 2014
- 14:24 UTC American Astronomic... Skeleton Crew at AAS Executive Office Today The AAS Executive Office in Washington, DC, is open today, Friday, 14 February 2014, but many staff members are working from home or taking the day off to deal with ...
- 12:58 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Space App Camp 2014 The Space App Camp 2014 will be held in Noordwijk at the ESA - ESTEC Centre from 4 to 12 May 2014. App development in the field of Earth Observation ...
- 11:29 UTC ESA Top News Kelut grounds flights Satellites are tracking the major cloud of ash and sulphur dioxide as it spreads in the atmosphere following the eruption of the Kelut volcano on Java island
- 09:40 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Aldo Sandulli appointed as Extraordinary Commissioner Professor Aldo Sandulli was appointed as Extraordinary Commissioner of the Italian Space Agency. The appointment was decided by decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, Enrico Letta, upon ...
- 09:05 UTC ESA Top News Heart of the Atacama Earth observation image of the week: Chile’s heart-shaped Miscanti lake, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Ariane 5 Flight VA216 is postponed for payload checks In order to allow HISPASAT to perform complementary checks on its Amazonas 4A satellite, Arianespace will reschedule the Ariane 5 mission originally planned for March 7.
13 Feb 2014
- 20:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA to Host Deep Space Network Social Media Event NASA will host a two-day NASA Social for 50 of its social media followers on April 1 and 2, 2014, at JPL in Pasadena and the Deep Space Network complex ...
- 19:36 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA's IBEX Helps Paint Picture of the Magnetic System Be... NASA's IBEX shows an interstellar magnetic field that is nearly perpendicular to the motion of our solar system through the galaxy. This helps explain why we see more cosmic rays ...