NASA’s Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 10, 2012
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of black hole behaves. The record-breaking wind is moving about 20 million mph, or about 3 percent of the speed of light. This [...]
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NASA’s Cassini deliver Holiday treat from Saturn
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 19, 2012
The satellite conjunctions in which one moon pass in facade of or behind one more. Cassini scientists regularly create these explanations to study the ever-changing orbit of the planet’s moons. But even in these routine images, the Saturnian system shines. A few of Saturn’s stark, airless, icy moons appear to dangle next to the orange [...]
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: A time of accomplishment and achievement
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 17, 2012
Manufacturing and difficult of all flight mirrors was finished in a final test at the X-ray and Calibration Facility at Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. through these tests mirror segment were chilled to temperature similar to those Webb will see in space, around minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the conclusion of work started [...]
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NASA’s Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats From Saturn
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 27, 2012
No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have delivered a holiday package of glorious images. The pictures, from Cassini’s imaging team, show Saturn’s largest, most colorful ornament, Titan, and other icy baubles in orbit around this splendid planet. The release includes images of satellite conjunctions [...]
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NASA’S J-2X locomotive kick Off 2012 With Power pack test
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 26, 2012
A innovative sequence of tests on the locomotive that will help take humans to bottomless space will begin next week at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi. The test on the J-2X engine bring NASA one pace closer to the first human-rated liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket train to be urbanized in 40 [...]
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NASA’s Hubble Finds Stellar Life and Death in a Globular Cluster
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 13, 2011
A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that can be seen from the southern hemisphere. Aging bright stars in the cluster glow in intense [...]
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NASA’s TRMM Satellite Sees Deadly Tornadic Thunderstorms in Southeastern U.S.
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 5, 2011
Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through the U.S. southeast on Nov. 16, TRMM collected rainfall data on the dangerous storms from space. NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring [...]
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NASA’s Space Shuttle Bus for Satellites
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 27, 2011
Three satellites stand out for their role in Earth science: the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, and the Laser Geodynamic Satellite 2. Launched from Challenger in October 1984 (top image), the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-radiated by the planet, [...]
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NASA’s Chandra Finds Nearest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 3, 2011
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth, the pair is the nearest known such phenomenon. The black holes are located near the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 3393. Separated by only [...]
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NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 2, 2011
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its front hazard-avoidance camera to take this picture showing the rover’s arm extended toward a light-toned rock, “Tisdale 2,” during the 2,695th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (Aug. 23, 2011). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera [...]
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