January 11th 2012 PDT
Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-010 NASA'S FERMI SPACE TELESCOPE EXPLORES NEW ENERGY EXTREMES WASHINGTON -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi team announced its first census of energy sources in this new realm. Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2012 PDT
Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-009 NASA'S RXTE HELPS PINPOINT LAUNCH OF 'BULLETS' IN A BLACK HOLE'S JET WASHINGTON -- Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified the moment when a black hole in our galaxy launched superfast knots of gas into space. Racing outw ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Cyclones and heavy monsoon rains triggered unusually severe seasonal flooding across Southeast Asia. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76913&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 08, 2012 (Posted on Jan 09, 2012 3:07 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2012 PDT
Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-2 2012 January 10 at 10:17 a.m. MST (2012 January 10 1717 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For January 2-8 No space weather storms were observed. Outlook For January 11-17 No space weather storms are expected. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2012 PDT
Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 ltrent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 12-008 NASA'S CHANDRA FINDS LARGEST GALAXY CLUSTER IN EARLY UNIVERSE Washington -- An exceptional galaxy cluster, the largest seen in the distant universe, has been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation-funded Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile. Officially known as A ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2012 PDT
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, the NASA Science Mission Directorate, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory invite papers for a conference relating to the history of planetary exploration. This historical symposium will be held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. Please see the attached updated call for papers for more details. ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2012 PDT
Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 ltrent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Donna Weaver / Ray Villard Space Science Telescope Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4493 / 410-338-4514 dweaver@stsci.edu / villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 12-007 HUBBLE PINPOINTS FARTHEST PROTOCLUSTER OF GALAXIES EVER SEEN WASHINGTON -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development. It is the most distant such grouping ever observed in the e ...Continue Reading
January 10th 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 10 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 10 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1389 S19W88 087 0210 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1391 N12W12 011 0280 Dsc 10 22 Beta-Gamma 1392 N18 ...Continue Reading
January 10th 2012 PDT
Jan. 9, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 ltrent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-005 NASA'S ROSSI X-RAY TIMING EXPLORER COMPLETES MISSION OPERATIONS WASHINGTON -- After 16 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has made its last observation. The satellite provided unprecedented views into the extreme environments around white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. RXTE ...Continue Reading
January 10th 2012 PDT
Jan. 9, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-003 NASA ISSUES CALL FOR VISIONARY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Space Technology Program is looking for far-out ideas. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, or NIAC, program is seeking proposals for revolutionary concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions. Proposed concepts should enable new capabilities or significantly alter current approaches to launching, buildi ...Continue Reading
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