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6 Feb 2015
- 10:51 UTC Square Kilometer Ar... India’s GMRT telescope granted SKA pathfinder status After the NenuFAR telescope last year, LOFAR, the VLA, and others before, the SKA Organisation has now officially granted SKA pathfinder status to the emblematic Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) ...
- 09:05 UTC ESA Top News Lisbon Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1 radar image of Portugal's capital, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
- 08:50 UTC ESA Top News Latest Galileo satellites reach launch site Another two Galileo satellites have touched down in French Guiana ready to take their place in Europe’s satellite navigation constellation.
- 07:45 UTC ESA Top News What’s new about Europe’s reentry mission? ESA’s experimental spaceplane, poised for liftoff on Vega, is set to showcase the latest technologies and critical systems to extend Europe’s capability for space exploration.
- 05:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Venus Climate Orbiter “AKATSUKI” Re-injection t... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided the schedule for the Venus Climate Orbiter “
- 01:22 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Spacecraft Returns New Images of Pluto En Route to H... NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. The image of Pluto and its moon Charon, taken by ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Space Life Sciences Training Program Applications Open The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years with professional experience in space life science disciplines.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... French Guiana welcomes the next two Galileo satellites fo... The two Galileo satellite passengers for launch on Arianespace's next Soyuz flight have now been delivered to French Guiana, enabling the start-up of payload preparations for this medium-lift mission.
5 Feb 2015
- 22:26 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: Aaron Ewall-Wice and Federico... Papers to be discussed: Aaron Ewall-Wice: TBA Federico Marinacci: TBA
- 22:20 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Planck Mission Explores the History of Our Universe New data from Planck are helping scientists better understand the history and fabric of our universe, as well as our own Milky Way galaxy.
- 22:19 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Curiosity Analyzing Sample of Martian Mountain NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is analyzing a rock-powder sample collected by using the rover's drill in a gentler manner than at previous drill targets.
- 20:13 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: TBA) Papers to be discussed: TBA
- 20:11 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: David Goldfinger and TBA) Papers to be discussed: David Goldfinger -- TBA second speaker -- TBA
- 20:07 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: Josh Dillon and TBA) Papers to be discussed: Josh Dillon -- TBA second speaker TBA
- 18:45 UTC Canadian Space Agen... When were the first stars born? February 5, 2015 - New maps from the Planck Space Telescope reveal that the stars are younger than previously thought - By studying records left behind by the most ancient ...
- 18:23 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: David Hernandez and Meng Su) Papers to be discussed: David Hernandez -- Zwart and Boekholt, On the minimal accuracy required for simulating self-gravitating systems by means of direct N-body methods Meng Su -- TBA
- 18:16 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: Abraham Neben and Olek Sadows... Papers to be discussed: Abraham Neben -- Zemcov et al, On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy Olek Sadowski -- Hayasaki et al, Circularization of Tidally Disrupted Stars ...
- 17:50 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Sees Northeastern U.S. Wrapped in a Snowy Blanket When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the northeastern U.S. on February 3, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument better known as MODIS captured a visible picture that revealed the region ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Social Media Mavens Visit Goddard for 1st Ever ‘State of ... Goddard welcomed social media followers and news media to campus Feb. 2 for a behind-the-scenes look at the State of NASA.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Captures Rare Triple-Moon Conjunction NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter's largest moons racing across the banded face of the gas-giant planet.
- 15:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Captures Rare Triple-Moon Conjunction Get larger image formats Firing off a string of snapshots like a sports photographer at a NASCAR race, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare look at three of Jupiter's ...
- 15:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: March of the moons These new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture a rare occurrence as three of Jupiter’s largest moons parade across the giant gas planet’s banded face. Hubble took a string of ...
- 14:35 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 6 February, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1 radar image over the metropolitan area of Portugal’s capital, Lisbon
- 14:31 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... DSCOVR Ready to Spread its Wings Workers conduct a light test on the solar arrays on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, in the Building 1 high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility ...
- 14:20 UTC ESA Top News A brand new sky New Planck maps uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought
- 12:42 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... The EPS Edison-Volta Prize awarded to the Planck mission The Planck mission has been successful again. Its three principal scientific leaders have just been honored with the 2015 EPS Edison-Volta Prize. This international prize, awarded each two years, has ...
- 01:29 UTC Science@NASA An Edge-On Close Encounter with Jupiter Jupiter is having a close encounter with Earth, unusual because it is edge-on.
- 01:09 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Aircraft, Spacecraft Aid Atmospheric River Study NASA is part of a major field campaign studying intense atmospheric river storms from the ocean, land, air and space.
4 Feb 2015
- 22:22 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Coverage Set for U.S. Cargo Ship’s Departure from... After delivering more than 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station last month, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to leave the orbiting laboratory on ...
- 21:44 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Spacecraft Returns New Images of Pluto En Route to H... NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto on Wednesday, as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. Although still just a dot along with its ...
- 21:16 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Video: The Moon – A View From The Other Side What the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth? This video answers that question. A number of people who’ve seen NASA’s ...
- 21:11 UTC Carnegie Institutio... 15 million-year-old mollusk protein found Washington, D.C.— A team of Carnegie scientists have found “beautifully preserved” 15 million-year-old thin protein sheets in fossil shells from southern Maryland. Their findings are published in the inaugural issue ...
- 20:33 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Satellite Animation Shows February Return of the Pineappl... The "Pineapple Express" has set up again and is bringing wet weather to the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
- 20:02 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Dawn Gets Closer Views of Ceres NASA's Dawn spacecraft, on approach to dwarf planet Ceres, has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of this mysterious world.
- 20:00 UTC Interactions.org Ne... Interactions.org Newsdigest 4 February 2015 Synopsis: Dark matter not so dark? -- Trail of dust and gravitational waves tracked in arXiv papers -- Lessons from the beginning of time -- Symmetry, and breaking it -- ...
- 20:00 UTC Interactions.org Ne... Interactions.org Newsdigest 9 February 2015 New particles found at Large Hadron Collider -- Understanding the INO -- Watch physicist Brian Cox excitedly explain Higgs boson and the ‘unreasonable effectiveness of math’-- Planck results: First stars ...
- 19:52 UTC Johns Hopkins Unive... New Horizons Returns New Images of Pluto Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh could only dream of a spacecraft flying past the small planet he spotted on the edges of the solar system in 1930. Yet the newest views ...
- 18:43 UTC Science@NASA Hubble Captures Rare Triple-Moon Conjunction NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter's largest moons racing across the banded face of the gas-giant planet: Europa, Callisto, and Io.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA's LRO Discovers Lunar Hydrogen More Abundant on Moon... Lunar hydrogen deposits could be mined to produce water and rocket fuel if they are sufficiently abundant. Recent observations by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft indicate these deposits may ...
- 14:43 UTC Universe Awareness ... The Milky Way’s Flashing Lights The picture was captured using a special telescope called VISTA. VISTA is special because it doesn’t collect normal light that our eyes can see. It looks at the Universe in ...
- 14:43 UTC Universe Awareness ... The Milky Way’s Flashing Lights The picture was captured using a special telescope called VISTA. VISTA is special because it doesn’t collect normal light that our eyes can see. It looks at the Universe in ...
- 14:15 UTC ESA Top News Estonia joins ESA family PR N° 5-2015: Estonia took a step further in its relations with ESA by signing the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention on 4 February 2015, to become the 21st ...
- 13:57 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Q&A on NOAA's DSCOVR Mission NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Feb. 8 at 6:10 p.m. EDT and is a joint mission with NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
- 13:30 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta swoops in for a close encounter ESA’s Rosetta probe is preparing to make a close encounter with its comet on 14 February, passing just 6 km from the surface.
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News VISTA Stares Right Through the Milky Way A new image taken with ESO’s VISTA survey telescope reveals the famous Trifid Nebula in a new and ghostly light. By observing in infrared light, astronomers can see right through ...
- 10:24 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Telecommunications, Italy first to use Q/V band At around 10.30 to 11.30 yesterday morning, Italy succeeded in writing another new page in the history of civilian satellite communications, by holding the first ever video-conference in the Q/V ...
- 06:00 UTC Planetary Society P... The Planetary Society Supports FY2016 Budget Request for ... In response to President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2016 Presidential Budget Request, The Planetary Society issued the following statement
- 02:15 UTC Interactions.org Ne... Newswire: 3 February 2015 - KEK and ICRR sign a MOU on th... On January 31st, 2015, the Inaugural Symposium of the Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration and Signing Ceremony was held at Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center. The Hyper-Kamiokande project aims to address the mysteries of the ...
3 Feb 2015
- 22:36 UTC American Astronomic... NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research Partnership In its report New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Astro2010 Decadal Survey committee recommended that NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) support an "aggressive program of ...
- 20:08 UTC Science@NASA Lunar Hydrogen More Abundant on … Pole-Facing Slopes Recent observations by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft indicate that deposits of lunar water may be slightly more abundant on crater slopes in the southern hemisphere that face the ...