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19 Apr 2013
- 13:00 UTC ESA Space Science Herschel and Hubble see the Horsehead in new light New views of the Horsehead Nebula and its turbulent environment have been unveiled by ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope.
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Job creation and growth with space Ireland is setting an example for how space technologies can contribute to economic growth and recovery through the maritime sector. Over 100 European specialists in policy, space technology, industry and ...
- 13:00 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Herschel:A Horsehead, a Flame and hidden gems in Orion B ESA&aposs Herschel Space Observatory has imaged the Orion B molecular cloud, a vast star-forming complex in the constellation Orion. Herschel&aposs far-infrared view reveals the glow from several star-forming regions nestled ...
- 12:50 UTC Universe Awareness ... Born in the Wild In the Milky Way – the galaxy in which we live – stars are born in a safe home, surrounded by protecting, soft, motionless clouds of gas. But how different ...
- 12:50 UTC Universe Awareness ... Nacida en estado salvaje En la Vía Láctea - la galaxia en la que vivimos - las estrellas nacen en un hogar seguro, rodeadas por nubes de gas protectoras, suaves, que no se mueven. ...
- 12:50 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color Get larger image formats Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up ...
- 08:27 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 15-19 April 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Student Launch Projects Challenge Moved to April 21 Members of the news media are invited to join in the "launchfest" fun at several events for the 2012-13 NASA Student Launch Projects.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Vega's three-satellite payload is integrated and ready fo... The payload "stack" for Vega's second mission from French Guiana has been completed and is ready for installation on the lightweight launch vehicle at the Spaceport.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Success of the 1,802nd launch of Soyuz The 1,802nd flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Friday, 19 April 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:00 Moscow time (12:00 Paris time).
18 Apr 2013
- 23:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Three From JPL on Time Magazine 'Most Influential' List On a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at the same California address, where they've led projects to study things that are not on ...
- 19:47 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA'S Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Pla... NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ...
- 19:04 UTC Science@NASA Sci@NASA: Kepler Discovers Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Plan... NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ...
- 19:04 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."
- 18:15 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... Two Water Worlds for the Price of One April 18, 2013: In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue jewel compared to the deserts of Mercury, ...
- 16:58 UTC Carnegie Institutio... New Earth-like planets found Washington, D.C.—A team of scientists, including Carnegie’s Alan Boss, has discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star. Their work is published in Science Express. Using ...
- 13:54 UTC Arianespace Press R... Stephane Israel named Chairman and CEO of Arianespace The Board of Directors of Arianespace today named Stephane Israel Chairman and CEO of the company, effective Monday, April 22, 2013.
- 12:30 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Astronaut Chris Hadfield launches the National Film Board... Last opportunity for media to ask questions before landing - Longueuil, Quebec, April 18, 2013 – On April 22, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently commander of the ...
- 08:07 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 19 April, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
- 07:01 UTC ESA Top News Focus on growing threat of space debris The continuing growth in space debris poses an increasing threat to economically vital orbital regions. Next week, hundreds of top experts from across the globe will meet at Europe’s largest-ever ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... The Planetary Society Takes Central Role in Asteroid Dete... At a major planetary defense conference in Flagstaff, AZ last evening, the Planetary Society announced the winners of its 2013 Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) grants, and was recognized itself ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... The Planetary Society Takes Central Role in Asteroid Dete... At a major planetary defense conference in Flagstaff, AZ last evening, the Planetary Society announced the winners of its 2013 Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) grants, and was recognized itself ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Marshall Center Honored by Alabama Legislature Patrick Scheuermann, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, met with Alabama state leaders and legislators April 18.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to... NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone."
17 Apr 2013
- 20:42 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Orbiters Have New Project Managers Two NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, both working long past their original prime missions, have new project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
- 17:44 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL: Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early U... Busy-bee galaxy seen churning out stars when our universe was just a baby.
- 17:40 UTC ESA Space Science Star factory in the early Universe challenges galaxy evol... ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time when the Universe was ...
- 17:19 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... X-Ray View of A Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry A supernova remnant whose progenitor explosion was seen from Earth over a thousand years ago.
- 17:00 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Herschel:Star factory in the early Universe challenges ga... ESA&aposs Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time when the Universe was ...
- 14:58 UTC Herschel Results HFLS3 Astronomers using Herschel have found a distant galaxy that challenges our understanding of galaxy evolution read more
- 14:51 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Go Luca Six weeks to launch for ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano's Volare mission
- 11:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Commander Chris Hadfield Communicates Through Amateur Rad... Longueuil, Quebec, April 17, 2013 – As part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will answer questions live ...
- 10:00 UTC ESO Top News ALMA Pinpoints Early Galaxies at Record Speed A team of astronomers has used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early ...
- 10:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Stellar Baby Boom The biggest bursts of star birth in the early Universe took place in galaxies that contained lots and lots of cosmic dust. But the dust that makes these galaxies so ...
- 10:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Un "baby boom" estelar Los mayores brotes de nacimiento de estrellas en el Universo primitivo tuvieron lugar en galaxias que contenían grandes cantidades de polvo cósmico. Pero el polvo que contienen esas galaxias tan ...
- 08:12 UTC ESA Top News Nanocoating Technology image of the week: Nanoparticle coatings improve heat transfer and reduce carbon emission
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch IRIS spacecraft arrives at VAFB for final preparations for a NET May 28 launch aboard a Pegasus rocket.
16 Apr 2013
- 23:49 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... How to Target an Asteroid The hunt is on for methods to aim a spacecraft at an asteroid.
- 23:10 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Cooperative Agreement for Internships NASA's Office of Education has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to support the agency's education internship programs.
- 22:15 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... SOFIA Observations Reveal Star Formation Surprise Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy researchers capture mid-infrared images of massive G35 star condensing in dense dust and gas cocoon.
- 22:07 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Media Invited to View Wildfire Sensor On USFS Jet Media are invited to view the USFS jet on the tarmac in front of the Moffett Tower and talk to USFS, NASA and CALFIRE personnel.
- 20:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA’s Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves SLAMS, or short large amplitude magnetic structures, have been spotted in the froth of waves in front of Earthspace as it moves through the solar system. They create a magnetic ...
- 19:59 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray... Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a new class of gamma-ray bursts that likely arise from dying stars hundreds of times larger than the sun.
- 19:30 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Eye Exam for LDCM Once a satellite is in orbit, it's not ready to take measurements until a series of check-out procedures have been performed.
- 18:48 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Hosts Media Briefing on Kepler Planetary Discovery NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.
- 16:10 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Winning Scienc... Longueuil, Quebec, April 16, 2013 – Today, during a live connection from aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Commander Chris Hadfield performed a science experiment designed by Kendra Lemke and ...
- 15:09 UTC University of Wisco... International astrophysics reaches Milwaukee Trips to the South Pole usually require a lot of specialized equipment, but Nils Irland's packing list for his November 2012 visit included some items unusual even by those standards: ...
- 14:05 UTC ESA Top News V for Vegetation Minisatellite tracking global vegetation growth: new video highlights Proba-V for Vegetation
- 13:05 UTC ESA Top News 90 million laser shots bring wind satellite back on track Developing new ways of monitoring Earth is always demanding, but ESA’s Aeolus mission has faced some particularly difficult technical challenges. However, with the success of intense high-energy tests on its ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Marshall to Be Honored by Alabama Legislature April 18 The Marshall Center will be honored by the Alabama Legislature with resolutions and proclamations recognizing the center's achievements.