Jan. 8, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 13-005 NASA'S HUBBLE REVEALS ROGUE PLANETARY ORBIT FOR FOMALHAUT B WASHINGTON -- Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary di ...Continue Reading

Jan. 8, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-011 NASA TELESCOPES SEE WEATHER PATTERNS IN BROWN DWARF WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed "weather map" yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs. ...Continue Reading

Jan. 08, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Nicholas A. Veronico SOFIA Science Center Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4589 nveronico@sofia.usra.edu RELEASE: 13-010 SOFIA SPOTS RECENT STARBURSTS IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY'S CENTER WASHINGTON -- Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive ...Continue Reading

Jan. 8, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Dewayne Washington Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040 dewayne.a.washington@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-007 NASA OFFERS NEWS MEDIA ACCESS TO TDRS-K SPACECRAFT JAN. 11 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K (TDRS-K), set to launch this month, will be the focus of a media opportunity at 10 a.m. EST ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- WILDFIRES IN AUSTRALIA Wildfires burned in Australia during 2012 and 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80105&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 07, 2013 (Posted on Jan 07, 2013 5:20 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN Dust hovered over the Atl ...Continue Reading

Jan. 08, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-008 NASA HOLDS BRIEFINGS JAN. 17 TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION SCIENCE AND ACTIVITIES HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will hold two news conferences Thursday, Jan. 17, to preview the upcoming Expedition 35 and 36 missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA Television and the agency's website will carry th ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 08 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 8 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1638 N13W74 308 0080 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1640 N28W87 322 0300 Eho 12 05 Beta 1641 N02W48 2 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 7, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 13-003 NEW CHANDRA MOVIE FEATURES NEUTRON STAR ACTION WASHINGTON -- Unlike with some blockbuster films, the sequel to a movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is better than the first. This latest movie features a deeper look at a fast moving jet of particles produced by a rapidly rotat ...Continue Reading

Jan. 7, 2013 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 Lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-004 GALAXY'S GAMMA-RAY FLARES ERUPTED FAR FROM ITS BLACK HOLE WASHINGTON -- In 2011, a months-long blast of energy launched by an enormous black hole almost 11 billion years ago swept past Earth. Using a combination of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National S ...Continue Reading

Jan. 7, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-007 NASA'S NUSTAR CATCHES BLACK HOLES IN GALAXY WEB WASHINGTON -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside. The new image is being released Monday along wi ...Continue Reading