Category Archives: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California

The “Rains” of Saturn.

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

April 11, 2013 – The “Rains” of Saturn: A new study tracks the “rain” of charged water particles into the atmosphere of Saturn and finds there is more of it and it falls across larger areas of the planet than … Continue reading →

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NASA’s NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

February 28, 2013 – NASA’s NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin: Two X-ray space observatories have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System.

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

February 22, 2013 – NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System: NASA‘s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The planets are … Continue reading →

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NASA to Stream Live Fly By of Asteroid 2012 DA14.

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

February 15, 2013 – NASA to Stream Live Fly By of Asteroid 2012 DA14: NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small … Continue reading →

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NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young Stars.

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

February 8, 2013 – NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young Stars: Above, is an artist’s impression of two young binary stars that may be the source of mysterious clock-like bursts of light from an object called LRLL 54361 that … Continue reading →

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Starry Starry Skies.

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

September 15, 2012 – Starry Starry Skies: Astronomers have discovered two gas giant planets orbiting stars in the Beehive cluster, a collection of about 1,000 tightly packed stars. The planets are the first ever found around sun-like stars in a … Continue reading →

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Our “Champagne” Galaxy – Bubbles Anyone?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

March 8, 2012 – More than 5,000 “bubbles” in the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy have been discovered: A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 “bubbles” in the … Continue reading →

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