: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

Jan. 07, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Jeannette Owens Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2990 jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-002 NASA SELECTS CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT CONTRACTOR WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Frontier-Arrowhead NASA Services Joint Venture of Kansas City, Mo., to manage and oversee construction projects at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Clevel ...Continue Reading

Jan. 7, 2013 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886/344-8511 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-002 NASA'S GREEN AVIATION RESEARCH THROTTLES UP INTO SECOND GEAR WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected eight large-scale integrated technology demonstrations to advance aircraft concepts and technologies that will reduce the impact of aviation on the environment over the next 30 y ...Continue Reading

Jan. 07, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 michele.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-009 NASA KEPLER SCIENTIST HONORED BY NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WASHINGTON -- William Borucki, science principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California, is the recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal award ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (3 updated events, 3 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE DUMILE Tropical Storm Dumile formed at the beginning of 2013 in the southern Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80074&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 03, 2013 (Posted on Jan 03, 2013 1:34 PM) TAKLIMAKAN DESERT SNOW A winter storm in December 2012 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 07, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 michele.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-008 NASA'S KEPLER MISSION DISCOVERS 461 NEW PLANET CANDIDATES WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's "habitable zone," the region in the plane ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- VOLCAN COPAHUE With a history of eruptions throughout the Twentieth Century, Volcan Copahue showed signs of new life in late 2012 and early 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80095&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Jan 05, 2013 (Posted on Jan 07, 2013 1:38 PM) VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AT KILAUE ...Continue Reading