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 Invites Public Comment on Mars 2020 Draft Environmental Impact Statement * NASA is requesting the public and interested organizations to review and comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the agency’s proposed Mars 2020 mission. The comment period runs through July 21. During the co ...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, Partners Announce Top Achievements in Space Station Research * NASA, the American Astronautical Society and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) have announced 14 awards for the top research and technology achievements of 2013 made possible by the International Space Station. The third annua ...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 Announces Latest Progress, Upcoming Milestones in Hunt for Asteroids *  This image of asteroid 2011 MD was taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in Feb. 2014, over a period of 20 hours. The long observation, taken in infrared light, was needed to pick up the faint signature of the small asteroid (center of f ...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 * 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