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Mars-Bound NASA Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup
JPL News - 1 hour 25 min ago
At least one object in photos NASA's Curiosity rover will transmit from Mars later this year will look familiar to all Americans: a Lincoln penny sent as a camera reference.
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Dust of the Orion Nebula
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
What surrounds a hotbed of star formation?
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Lunation
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
Our Moon's appearance changes nightly.
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Comet Garradd and M92
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
Sweeping slowly through the constellation Hercules,
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Inside the Eagle Nebula
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
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La Silla Star Trails North and South
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
Fix your camera to a tripod and you can record graceful
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Red Aurora Over Australia
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
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The Belt of Venus Over Mercedes Argentina
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
Although you've surely seen it, you might not have noticed it.
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NASA Spinoff 2011 Unveils Benefits of NASA Technologies on Earth
NASA Breaking News - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:00 pm GMT
NASA's Spinoff 2011 publication, now available online, reveals how the space agency's ingenuity and partnerships have saved thousands of lives, generated billions of dollars, and created thousands of American jobs
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Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun
NASA Image of the Day - Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:00 pm GMT
On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare. Image Credit: JAXA/Hinode
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The Helix Nebula from the VISTA Telescope
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Sun Feb 5, 2012 11:55 pm GMT
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NASA Receives Second Highest Number Of Astronaut Applications
NASA Breaking News - Sun Feb 5, 2012 10:00 pm GMT
More than 6,300 individuals applied to become a NASA astronaut between Nov. 15, 2011 and Jan. 27, the second highest number of applications ever received by the agency.
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Astronaut Don Pettit Shares Passion for Science from Space
NASA Breaking News - Sun Feb 5, 2012 10:00 pm GMT
NASA and the American Physical Society (APS) have begun a partnership to share videos from the International Space Station with students, educators and science fans around the world.
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Remnant of a Supernova
NASA Image of the Day - Sun Feb 5, 2012 10:00 pm GMT
Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of their explosions. In its more than twelve years of science operations, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has studied many of these supernova remnants sprinkled across the galaxy. The latest example of this important investigation is Chandra's new image of the supernova remnant known as G350.1-0.3. This stellar debris field is located some 14,700 light years from the Earth toward the center of the Milky Way. Evidence from Chandra and from ESA's XMM-Newton telescope suggest that a compact object within G350.1+0.3 may be the dense core of the star that exploded. The position of this likely neutron star, seen by the arrow pointing to "neutron star" in the inset image, is well away from the center of the X-ray emission. If the supernova explosion occurred near the center of the X-ray emission then the neutron star must have received a powerful kick in the supernova explosion. Data suggest this supernova remnant, as it appears in the image, is 600 and 1,200 years old. If the estimated location of the explosion is correct, this means the neutron star has been moving at a speed of at least 3 million miles per hour since the explosion. Another intriguing aspect of G350.1-0.3 is its unusual shape. Many supernova remnants are nearly circular, but G350.1-0.3 is strikingly asymmetrical as seen in the Chandra data in this image (gold). Infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (light blue) also trace the morphology found by Chandra. Astronomers think that this bizarre shape is due to stellar debris field expanding into a nearby cloud of cold molecular gas. The age of 600-1,200 years puts the explosion that created G350.1-0.3 in the same time frame as other famous supernovas that formed the Crab and SN 1006 supernova remnants. However, it is unlikely that anyone on Earth would have seen the explosion because of the obscuring gas and dust that lies along our line of sight to the remnant. These results appeared in the April 10, 2011 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/I. Lovchinsky et al; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Blue Marble Earth from Suomi NPP
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Sat Feb 4, 2012 10:55 pm GMT
Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created.
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