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Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum - NASA Science - Iceweasel
Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum March 16, 2012: The human eye is crucial to astronomy. Without the ability to see, the luminous universe of stars, planets and galaxies would be closed to us, unknown forever.
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Kepler Discovers Earth-size Exoplanets Dec 20, 2011: NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, but they are the smallest exoplanets ever confirmed around a star like our sun. The discovery marks the next important milestone in the ultimate search for planets like Earth.
Kepler Discovers Earth-size Exoplanets - NASA Science - Iceweasel
600 Mysteries in the Night Sky - NASA Science - Iceweasel
600 Mysteries in the Night Sky Oct 18, 2011: NASA's Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray sources detected by their satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Of the 1873 sources found, nearly 600 are complete mysteries. No one knows what they are. "Fermi sees gamma rays coming from directions in the sky where there are no obvious objects likely to produce gamma rays," says David Thompson, Fermi Deputy Project Scientist from Goddard Space Flight Center.
This image combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. › Full image and caption October 24, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. -- A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding star in the sky, has been solved.
Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Iceweasel
On March 5, 2011, a large fissure eruption began on the east rift zone of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. Image credit: ASI/NASA/JPL-Caltech › Full image and caption April 01, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. – The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface.
Airborne Radar Set to Image Hawaiian Volcano - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Iceweasel
The Orion nebula is featured in this sweeping image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from ... A galaxy cluster 7.7 billion light-years away has been discovered using infrared data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer - Iceweasel
NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment May 4, 2011: Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B). "The space-time around Earth appears to be distorted just as general relativity predicts," says Stanford University physicist Francis Everitt, principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B mission. "This is an epic result," adds Clifford Will of Washington University in St.
Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment - NASA Science - Iceweasel
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected tiny green crystals, called olivine, thought to be raining down on a developing star. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Toledo › Full image and caption May 26, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. -- Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This is the first time such crystals have been observed in the dusty clouds of gas that collapse around forming stars.
Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant Star - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Iceweasel
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