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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 ...
- 19:27 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Largest Solar System Moon Detailed in Geologic Map Global map of Ganymede shows furrows, grooves and impact craters, allowing scientists to decipher distinct geologic time periods.
- 19:23 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Supernovas NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) Wednesday, Feb. 19, to announce new observations from its high-energy X-ray mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ...
- 19:22 UTC Southwest Research ... IBEX research shows influence of galactic magnetic field ... In a report published today, new research suggests the enigmatic “ribbon” of energetic particles discovered at the edge of our solar system by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) may be ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Satellite Views Powerful Winter Storm Battering Mid-Atlan... Image caption: This visible image of the winter storm over the U.S. south and East Coast was taken by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite on Feb. 13 at 1455 UTC/9:45 a.m. EST. ...
- 15:30 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Television Airs Departure of Commercial Cargo Ship f... Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo spacecraft, which delivered almost a ton-and-a-half of supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station in January, will complete its month-long mission to the orbiting ...
- 15:20 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 14 February, at 10:00 CET for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
- 13:10 UTC Royal Astronomical ... (Slightly) better news on science funding Following on from the Spending Review in December 2013, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced the budget allocations to the Research Councils, UK Space Agency and ...
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Happy Valentine's Say it with ESA: choose your card!
- 10:00 UTC ESA Top News Preparing to fly Technology image of the week: ESA’s network of Business Incubation Centres provide European start-up companies with support needed to make them soar – sometimes literally
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... LADEE Sends Its First Images of the Moon Back to Earth Earlier this month, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory successfully downlinked images of the moon and stars taken by onboard camera systems, known as star trackers.
12 Feb 2014
- 21:44 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Moves Longest-Serving Mars Spacecraft for New Observ... NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, clouds and surface frost develop in different seasons on the ...
- 21:10 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Mission Operations Advanced Technology and In... NASA has awarded its Advanced Technology and Integration contract to Tietronix Software Inc. of Webster, Texas for support at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
- 18:12 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Exploding Stars, New Planets, Black Holes, and the Crisis... FREE Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series is now in its 14th year. Come find out what Lick is all about and why we need to keep it going! On Wednesday, ...
- 16:18 UTC American Astronomic... Claim Your 15% Scholarly Article Savings If you paid your 2014 AAS membership dues by the end of 2013, you qualified for a 15% discount on your share of the author charges for one scholarly article ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Satellite Video Shows Movement of Major U.S. Winter Storm A new NASA video of NOAA's GOES satellite imagery shows three days of movement of the massive winter storm that stretches from the southern U.S. to the northeast.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Tests New Technologies for Robotic Refueling Multiple NASA centers are currently conducting a remotely controlled test of new technologies that would empower future space robots to transfer fuel into the propellant tanks of spacecraft in space ...
- 15:59 UTC Herschel Results Galaxy Clusters from Planck By combining up with Planck, Herschel has helped identify clusters of galaxies more distant than seen before read more
- 15:00 UTC Johns Hopkins Unive... Mapping an Icy World Scientists have produced the first global geologic map of the Jovian moon Ganymede, illustrating the varied geologic character of the solar system's largest moon.
- 14:49 UTC Royal Astronomical ... How stellar death can lead to twin celestial jets Astronomers know that while large stars can end their lives as violently cataclysmic supernovae, smaller stars end up as planetary nebulae – colourful, glowing clouds of dust and gas. In ...
- 10:00 UTC ESA Top News A good year to find a comet A team of European astronomers has found a previously unknown comet, detected as a tiny blob of light orbiting our Sun deep in the Solar System.
- 09:04 UTC ESA Top News Prehistoric cave pigment to shield ESA’s solar probe A pigment once daubed onto prehistoric cave paintings is set to protect ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission from the Sun’s close-up glare. Burnt bone charcoal will be applied to the spacecraft’s ...
- 08:32 UTC ESA Top News Glowing plants a sign of health Radiant skin is considered a sign of good health in humans, but plants also glow when they are well. A potential new ESA satellite could use this fluorescence to track ...
- 06:03 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Four new galaxy clusters take researchers further back in... Four previously unknown galaxy clusters – each potentially containing thousands of individual galaxies – have been discovered some 10 billion light years from Earth. An international team of astronomers, led ...
- 02:23 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge Seminar Series These hour long seminars are held on the second and fourth Fridays of each month beginning on February 14, and include a public Q&A portion by asteroid expert. Curious about ...
11 Feb 2014
- 22:07 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Curiosity Drives On After Crossing Martian Dune NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its traverse toward enticing science destinations after climbing over a dune spanning a gap in a ridge.
- 19:04 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... TMT and "Journey through the Universe" 2014 Join TMT at the Journey through the Universe 10th anniversary celebration in association with ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s 8th annual Family Science Day on Sunday, March 9, 2014. This celebration is ...
- 19:04 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... TMT and "Journey through the Universe" 2014 Join TMT at the Journey through the Universe 10th anniversary celebration in association with ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s 8th annual Family Science Day on Sunday, March 9, 2014. This celebration is ...
- 18:46 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA-USGS Landsat 8 Satellite Celebrates First Year of Su... The latest Landsat satellite continues the program's observations, dating back to 1972, of change across Earth's land surfaces.