var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option June 19, 2014 * Swiftly Moving Gas Streamer Eclipses Supermassive Black Hole *  In this illustration, the position of a dark, absorbing cloud of material is located high above the supermassive black hole and accretion disk in the center of the active galaxy NGC 5548. Numerous other filaments twist around the black hole as they are ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option June 19, 2014 * NASA's Hubble Finds Dwarf Galaxies Formed More Than Their Fair Share of Universe's Stars *  Hiding among these thousands of galaxies are faint dwarf galaxies residing in the early universe, between 2 and 6 billion years after the big bang, an important time period when most of the stars in the universe were formed. Some o ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jun 19 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 170 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Jun 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2087 S20W35 155 0150 Dsc 06 09 Beta 2089 N17W77 197 0260 Dki 08 11 Beta-Gamma 2090 N24 ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option June 18, 2014 * NASA Astronauts David Leestma and Andrew Thomas Retire *  NASA astronauts David Leestma and Andrew Thomas are retiring from the astronaut corps after a combined 66 years in federal service.Image Credit: NASA  NASA has bid farewell to two veteran astronauts who have retired after a combined 66 years of federal ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES AND NORTHERN MEXICO The 2014 fire season in the southwestern United States. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83873&src=nha *** Image from Jun 16, 2014 (Posted on Jun 17, 2014 5:03 PM) FIRES IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA Large, dry-season fires burn across northern Australia. * ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option June 18, 2014 * NASA Announces Award Recipients for Space Station Research Flight Opportunity * NASA has awarded $500,000 and payload flight opportunities for research and technology development onboard the International Space Station to academic institutions across the U.S. The awards are through NASA's Experimental Program to Stimula ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jun 18 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 169 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jun 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2087 S19W22 154 0150 Dsc 07 08 Beta-Gamma 2089 N17W62 194 0260 Dkc 08 07 Beta-Gamma 20 ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 698 2014 Jun 17 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 40 is continuing with ISS in a 411 x 417 km x 51.7 deg orbit. On May 28 Soyuz TMA-13M was launched with Maksim Suraev, Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst; the spaceship docked with the Rassvet module at 0144 UTC May 29 and their crew joined commander S ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (17 June 2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * The Loop http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83875&src=eoa-iotd * Dust over Oman http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83869&src=eoa-iotd * National Stadium of Brasília http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83866&src=eoa-iotd * Floods in Southern Brazil http://earthobservatory ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST IN THE MIDDLE EAST Strong northwesterly winds filled the skies with dust in June 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83869&src=nha *** Image from Jun 15, 2014 (Posted on Jun 16, 2014 4:50 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a serv ...Continue Reading