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Tue, 11/01/2011 - 12:15 by Neha Gupta
Astronomers at Moffett Field's NASA Ames Research Center have discovered the smallest planet outside our solar system, which measures approximately 1.4 times the size of Earth.
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Tue, 04/01/2011 - 16:24 by Neka Sehgal
If good weather prevails and the skies are clear, millions of people in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia will get to see the first partial solar eclipse of the New Year today, Jan. 4, 2011.
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Sun, 19/12/2010 - 16:35 by Anter Prakash Singh
A celestial treat awaits the sky gazers as the total lunar eclipse slated for Monday night. Lunar eclipses are not so uncommon but this time the moon will be up high in the sky, visible to everyone across the United States.
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Fri, 10/12/2010 - 23:03 by harsheeb
Ithaca -- NASA says its new airborne astronomical observatory has flown its first complete science mission following five months of test flights.
A 17-ton telescope mounted in the fuselage of a modified 747 jumbo jet, the SOFIA observatory, for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, will embark on a 20-year investigation of the infrared spectrum of the universe, an area not yet explored by satellite- or ground-based observatories.
An Ithaca College associate professor of physics on board for last week's science mission says he looks forward to the cosmic insights SOFIA will provide, a university release said.
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Fri, 10/12/2010 - 09:22 by harsheeb
ie-- The unchanging moon humans gaze up at every night may be slightly smaller than the one our ancestors saw, recent research by U.S. scientists suggests.
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Darren Williams, associate professor of astronomy at Penn State Erie, says new high-resolution images released by NASA show distinctive cliffs, called lobate scarps, all over the surface of the moon, evidence that the moon is getting gradually smaller, PhysOrg.com reported Thursday.
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Fri, 10/12/2010 - 09:20 by harsheeb
Pasadena -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars By the middle of next week than any other spacecraft in history, the space agency says.
Odyssey entered orbit around Mars Oct. 24, 2001. On Dec. 15 it will pass the Martian career longevity record set by its predecessor, Mars Global Surveyor - which operated in orbit from Sept. 11, 1997, to Nov. 2, 2006 -- a release Thursday from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said.
Odyssey made its most famous discovery, evidence of large amounts of water ice just below the dry surface of Mars, during the first few months of its prime mission that ended in 2004.
The additional years of operation have provided a bonus, scientists with the program said.
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Sat, 04/12/2010 - 08:53 by harsheeb
San Diego -- U.S. astronomers say they've observed waxing and waning of distant exploding stars that don't match up with current knowledge of the cosmic explosions.
Using a sensitive instrument aboard a satellite that images the entire sky, astronomers at the University of California, San Diego, studied four novae, or exploding stars, and recorded their brightness over the course of the outbursts, a university release said. Rebekah Hounsell, a graduate student at Liverpool John Moores University in Britain, studied the measurements while visiting UC San Diego.
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Sat, 04/12/2010 - 07:48 by harsheeb
Cape Canaveral -- The launch of Discovery has been pushed to February at the earliest, as more tests and analysis are needed before the mission can proceed, U.S. officials said.
NASA engineers met Thursday and reviewed the repair on two 21-foot-long aluminum brackets on the main fuel tank called stringers, and the application of insulating foam on the tank after those repairs, a NASA release said Friday.
Mission managers decided the analysis and tests required to launch Discovery safely are not complete.
They plan to conduct an instrumented test on the external fuel tank and structural evaluations on stringer repairs, they said.
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Fri, 03/12/2010 - 07:16 by harsheeb
Washington-- NASA announced schools and universities will be able to obtain 7,000 space shuttle heat shield tiles for only the shipping and handling price of $23.40.
The U.S. space agency said the tiles, which protected the shuttles from the extreme temperatures of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, will be awarded to learning institutions on a first-come, first-served basis, Florida Today reported Thursday.
NASA said only organizations with Department of Education statistics tracking numbers will be considered.
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Thu, 02/12/2010 - 08:04 by harsheeb
Cambridge-- U.S. astronomers say they've made the first measurements of the atmosphere of a distant "super-Earth" orbiting a far-off star.
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics say their first look at the atmosphere of the planet known as GJ 1214b raises as many questions as it answers, a Harvard release reported Wednesday.
"This is the first super-Earth known to have an atmosphere," astronomer Jacob Bean says. "But even with these new measurements we can't say yet what that atmosphere is made of. This world is being very shy and veiling its true nature from us."
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Wed, 01/12/2010 - 16:07 by Anter Prakash Singh
The unmanned space craft of the U.S. Air force has completed its classified mission and will be returning to earth after a stay of more than seven months in Earth's orbit, the Air Force officials told in a brief statement released on 30th November.
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Sat, 27/11/2010 - 12:56 by Anter Prakash Singh
The three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely on Earth after a five and a half month stay in the space.
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