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5 Jan 2015
- 19:22 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Dr. Morrison Awarded 2015 AAS Education Prize SSERVI Chief Scientist David Morrison received the American Astronomical Society's Education Prize for 2015. SSERVI’s Chief Scientist David Morrison received the American Astronomical Society’s Education Prize for 2015. The AAS ...
- 18:45 UTC NASA Breaking News Student Scientists Persevere, Ready to Launch Experiments... Students will look to the skies this week when SpaceX's fifth commercial resupply services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station lifts off at 6:18 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, ...
- 18:35 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... Stars' Spins Reveal Their Ages When you're a kid every birthday is cause for celebration, but as you get older they become a little less exciting. You might not want to admit just how old ...
- 18:35 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... Super-Earths Have Long-Lasting Oceans For life as we know it to develop on other planets, those planets would need liquid water, or oceans. Geologic evidence suggests that Earth's oceans have existed for nearly the ...
- 18:35 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... New Instrument Reveals Recipe for Other Earths How do you make an Earth-like planet? The "test kitchen" of Earth has given us a detailed recipe, but it wasn't clear whether other planetary systems would follow the same ...
- 18:07 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Andromeda in HD - Hubble captures the sharpest ever view ... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy - otherwise known as Messier 31. The enormous image is the biggest ...
- 17:36 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... CATS, Lasers and Space Launching Jan. 6, 2015, on SpaceX, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, or CATS, is a lidar remote-sensing instrument that will extend profile measurements of atmospheric aerosols and clouds from the International ...
- 17:10 UTC ESA Top News Chasms and cliffs on Mars Mars Express spots familiar geology near the volcanic Tharsis region on Mars
- 17:01 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Revisiting an icon - Hubble captures the Pillars of Creat... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured many breathtaking images of the Universe, but one snapshot stands out from the rest: the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation. In 1995 Hubble's ...
- 16:48 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces Briefing on New Mission to Track Water in ... NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 8, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington to discuss the upcoming Soil Moisture ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Discovers That Milky Way Core Drives Wind at 2 Mil... Hubble has measured, for the first time, the velocity and composition of balloon-like structures being blown out of our galaxy.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble’s High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda ... The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this portion of the Andromeda galaxy is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Goes High-Definition to Revisit Iconic 'Pillars of... In celebration of its upcoming 25th anniversary in April, Hubble has revisited the famous "Pillars of Creation" providing astronomers with a sharper and wider view.
- 14:15 UTC ASTRON The disappearance of the cosmic spinning top Masses and extreme gravitational effects measured in a binary neutron star Scientists measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron ...
- 12:01 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Space and astronomy digest: January 2015 The January digest of upcoming space and astronomy events. This month sees the launch of satellites to monitor soil conditions on Earth and give an early warning of space weather, ...
- 10:28 UTC ESA Top News Astronaut feels the force In a milestone for space robotics, the International Space Station has hosted the first full run of ESA’s experiment with a force-reflecting joystick.
- 07:14 UTC Planetary Science I... PSI's Hansen Studies Pluto's Atmosphere A new paper by PSI Senior Scientist Candy Hansen offers new insights on Pluto’s atmospheric pressure. New Hubble Space Telescope images and other observations have allowed Hansen and her co-authors ...
2 Jan 2015
- 20:34 UTC Gemini Observatory Galactic Herding: New Image Brings Galaxy Diversity to Li... Gemini Legacy image of the galaxy group VV 166, obtained using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS), at the Gemini North telescope located on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i. In this image, north ...
31 Dec 2014
- 22:41 UTC Science@NASA Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, More Common Than Previousl... New research shows that terrestrial gamma-ray flashes arise from an unexpected diversity of thunderstorms storms and may be more common than previously thought.
- 22:00 UTC Interactions.org Ne... Interactions.org Newsdigest 31 December 2014 Come out, come out, wherever you are! -- Mysterious neutrinos create new particles out of nothing in 'glancing blows' on matter -- Brain observatories and dark matter: Scientists' resolutions for ...
- 18:42 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Highlights Astrophysics Discoveries at American Astr... NASA researchers will present a wide range of new astrophysics findings at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
- 17:53 UTC Science@NASA Good News on Forests and Carbon Dioxide A new NASA-led study shows that tropical forests may be absorbing far more carbon dioxide than many scientists thought, in response to rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas.
- 17:28 UTC Science@NASA Science@NASA: Satellite with Extraordinary Antenna to Stu... Launching in January 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Mapping satellite (SMAP) will track water in the soil. Data gathered using the satellite's unusual antenna with help forecast weather, floods, drought, crop ...
- 12:00 UTC Isaac Newton Group ... Extra WHT Call for Semester 15A The upcoming semester (2015A) there is extra time available for Dutch astronomers on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma. The time allocation committee has decided to open an ...
- 11:12 UTC Science and Technol... New Year Honour for Mary Elizabeth Shewry For almost 30 years, Mary Elizabeth Shewry provided that support almost single-handed to entire generations of UK scientists working at the European particle physics lab CERN. Her unstinting service has ...
30 Dec 2014
- 23:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Technology Innovations Spin NASA's SMAP into Space It's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso.
- 20:52 UTC Science@NASA Science@NASA: Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Pl... NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has begun its approach to Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft.
- 18:32 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... TMT Open House at the American Astronomical Society (AAS... TMT will host an Open House at the annual American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Seattle, WA on Monday, 5 January, at 5:30 pm, in room 6B. read more
- 16:47 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Space and astronomy digest: January 2015 The January digest of upcoming space and astronomy events. This month sees the launch of satellites to monitor soil conditions on Earth and give an early warning of space weather, ...
- 01:37 UTC Science@NASA "Black Hole Telescope" Photographs the Sun For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, ...
- 00:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres NASA's Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft.
29 Dec 2014
- 21:18 UTC American Astronomic... Where to Find AAS Policy at #aas225 in Seattle Listen, I know that you're only coming to #aas225 in Seattle next week (4-8 January 2015) to see your friendly, neighborhood AAS policy team. And we're supremely flattered. I promise ...
- 19:22 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Finds Good News on Forests and Carbon Dioxide A NASA-led study suggests that tropical forests absorb more carbon dioxide than scientists thought. That means, if left undisturbed, the tropical trees should be able to continue reducing the rate ...
- 18:13 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Awards Wallops North Island Electrical Upgrade Proje... NASA has awarded a contract to Dvorak, LLC of Baltimore, Maryland, for the Wallops North Island Electrical Upgrade Project.
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Updates Pre-Launch Briefings for Upcoming Resupply M... The fifth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract now is scheduled to launch about 6:18 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, from ...
- 15:33 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... A Solar Wind Workhorse Marks 20 Years of Science Discover... NASA's Wind mission launched on Nov. 1, 1994, with the goal of characterizing the constant stream of particles from the sun called the solar wind.
- 07:51 UTC Planetary Science I... Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Happy New Year from all of us at the Planetary Science Institute Share
- 07:00 UTC United Launch Allia... United Launch Alliance Concludes Banner Year United Launch Alliance, the nation’s premier space launch provider, congratulates its employees, suppliers and customers on another successful year, reliably and affordably launching 14 satellites to orbit with 100 percent ...
24 Dec 2014
- 19:34 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Looks at Some Severe Holiday Weather from Space Severe weather in the form of tornadoes is not something people expect on Christmas week but a storm system on Dec. 23 brought tornadoes to Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana.
- 19:15 UTC Interactions.org Ne... Interactions.org Newsdigest 24 December 2014 Neutrino study: High precision hunt for Big Bang particles begins -- What is the weak force? -- How do we know the Big Bang actually happened? -- Scientists far from ...
- 14:17 UTC NASA's MESSENGER Mi... Innovative use of Pressurant Extends MESSENGER's Mission,... The MESSENGER spacecraft will soon run literally on fumes. After more than 10 years traveling in space, nearly four of those orbiting Mercury, the spacecraft has expended most of its ...
23 Dec 2014
- 17:23 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Satellite Spots Christmas If you're looking for Christmas, NASA's Aqua satellite found it in the Pacific Ocean. It's a coral atoll in the northern Line Islands that is part of the Republic of ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Commercial Space Partners for Collaborative ... NASA announced Tuesday the selection of four U.S. companies to collaborate with NASA through unfunded partnerships to develop new space capabilities available to the government and other customers. The partnerships ...
- 15:56 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Weather and Environmental Satellite Crowd Sourcing: 2 New... The free weather and environment mobile apps received development support from NOAA and NASA.
- 14:36 UTC American Astronomic... Join the Software Publication Special Interest Group (SPS... The AAS Working Group on Astronomical Software (WGAS) has invited the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) to form a special interest group (SIG) on software publication. The inaugural meeting will ...
- 13:54 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Rosetta exhibition The Rosetta mission and Philae’s historic landing on the comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s surface will be the main themes for an exhibition that will be held in Turin at the “Infini.To”, ...
- 10:25 UTC ESA Top News Samantha's greeting A Christmas greeting from ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from on board the International Space Station
- 08:00 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... Hawaii's Astronomy Sector Brought an Economic Impact of $... Publication Name: Pacific Business News Publication Date: Tue, 2014-12-23 Abstract: Hawaii's astronomy sector generated a statewide economic impact of $168 million in 2012, and the Big Island was the major ...
- 08:00 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... Hawaii's Astronomy Sector Brought an Economic Impact of $... Publication Name: Pacific Business News Publication Date: Tue, 2014-12-23 Abstract: Hawaii's astronomy sector generated a statewide economic impact of $168 million in 2012, and the Big Island was the major ...
22 Dec 2014
- 21:13 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Takes Giant Leaps on the Journey to Mars, Eyes Our H... In 2014, NASA took significant steps on the agency’s journey to Mars -- testing cutting-edge technologies and making scientific discoveries while studying our changing Earth and the infinite universe as ...