Tuesday, February 18, 2014

NASA's Chandra Sees Runaway Pulsar Firing an Extraordinary Jet

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking je...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

New Laser Technology Reveals How Ice Measures Up

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ew results from NASA's MABEL campaign demonstrated that a photon-counting technique will allow researchers to track the melt or growth ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Pine Island Iceberg Breaking Loose

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Between November 9–11, 2013, a large iceberg separated from the calving front of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. Scientists first detecte...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Cyclone Helen in India

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NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of Cyclone 04B (Helen) on November 21, 2013. The cyclone was weakening as it moved northwest and ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star's Bubbly Birth

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It's a bouncing baby . . . star! Combined observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly completed Atacama Large Mi...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches 'Cooperstown'

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed its first two-day autonomous drive Monday, bringing the mobile laboratory to a good vantage poin...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Juno Status Report

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As of Oct. 17, Juno was approximately 4.4 million miles (7.1 million kilometers) from Earth. The one-way radio signal travel time between E...