January 30, 2014 * RELEASE 14-038 * * NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries * NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org. Disk Detective is NASA's largest crowdsourcing project whose primary goal is to produce publishable scientific results. It exemplifies a new commitment to crowdsourcing an ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jan 30 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 30 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Jan 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1959 S23W75 242 0090 Hax 02 01 Alpha 1960 S15W70 237 0070 Hsx 03 03 Alpha 1965 S13W43 ...Continue Reading

January 29, 2014 * RELEASE 14-037 * * NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Jan. 31 * NASA will pay will tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues, during the agency's Day of Remembrance on Friday, Jan. 31. NASA's Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other agency senior officials will hold an observance and ...Continue Reading

January 29, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-021 * * NASA Discusses James Webb Space Telescope Progress * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland will participate in a news conference at 9 a.m. EST Monday, Feb. 3, to discuss the status of the agency's flagship science project, the James Webb Space Telescope. The event will take place in Building 8 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and be broadcast live on NASA Television. Webb will be the premiere ...Continue Reading

January 29, 2014 * RELEASE 14-035 * * NASA Selects Physical Science Research Proposals for the International Space Station * NASA's Physical Science Research Program will fund seven proposals to conduct physics research using the agency's new microgravity laboratory, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in 2016. NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) will provide an opportunity to study ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the space station -- a frontier ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- BUSHFIRES IN SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA Extreme heat and strong winds fueled smoky grass fires in southeastern Australia in January 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82987&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 28, 2014 (Posted on Jan 29, 2014 11:59 AM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new im ...Continue Reading

January 29, 2014 * RELEASE 14-028 * * NASA's Hubble Helps Solve Mystery of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out Galaxies * Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Europe's Herschel Space Observatory have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact elliptical galaxies that erupted and burned out early in the history of the universe. Enabled by Hubble's infrared imaging capabilities, astronomers have assembled for the first time a representative spectroscopic sampling of ultra-compact, burn ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 33 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASAs Johnson Space Center to Reopen Wednesday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:26:01 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASAs Johnson Space Center to Reopen Wednesday Jan. 28, 2014 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J14-003 NASA�s Johnson Space Center to Reopen Wednesday HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center, closed ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jan 29 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 29 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Jan 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1959 S25W59 239 0140 Cso 10 06 Beta 1960 S16W56 236 0090 Dai 04 06 Beta 1967 S12E67 1 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (28 January 2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Hawaii http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82975&src=eoa-iotd * 8,000-meter Peaks of the Himalaya and Karakoram http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82581&src=eoa-iotd * Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82944&src=eoa-iotd * Haze in the Sichuan Bas ...Continue Reading