Mega-Canyon – Bigger That Grand Canyon – Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice
Data from a NASA airborne science mission has revealed an immense and previously unknown canyon hidden under a mile of Greenland ice. “One might assume that…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 490: Optical Monitoring of T Ori Requested
AAVSO Alert Notice 490 Optical monitoring of T Ori requested August 30, 2013 Dr. William Herbst (Wesleyan University) and Rachel Pedersen (Bates College) have requested AAVSO…
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Giant Black Hole Rejecting Material Spotted by Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have taken a major step in explaining why material around the giant black hole at the center of the Milky…
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Fireball Brighter Than Full Moon Seen Over Southeastern USA
Two nights ago, a ~100 lb meteoroid traveling 53,000 mph hit the atmosphere over the southeastern USA and exploded around 2:30 AM on August 28th, producing…
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NuSTAR Starts Returning X-Ray Images of the Cosmos
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray images of the cosmos. The first…
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Comet ISON Is Paying a Visit to the Red Planet
Around the world, astronomers are buzzing with anticipation over the approach of Comet ISON. On Thanksgiving Day 2013, the icy visitor from the outer solar system…
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A New View of the Orion Nebula
This new view of the Orion A star-formation cloud from ESA’s Herschel space observatory shows the turbulent region of space that hugs the famous Orion Nebula.…
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New Adaptive Optics System Allows Telescope to Take Images Twice as Sharp as Hubble
Thanks to new technology developed in part at the University of Arizona, astronomers can now view objects in the sky at unprecedented sharpness in visible light.…
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August 23, 2013 Issue of “Spaceport News” Now Available Online
Spaceport News is a biweekly NASA publication that serves Kennedy Space Center civil service and contractor employees. The publication covers a variety of topics, primarily related…
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Spitzer Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency’s…
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