
Plasmas Torn Apart: Discovery Hints at Origin of Phenomena Like Solar Flares
Using high-speed cameras to
look at jets of plasma in
the lab, researchers have
made a discovery that may be
important in understanding
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Great Eruption Replay: Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of Powerful Stellar Eruption
Astronomers are watching a
delayed broadcast of a
spectacular outburst from
the unstable, behemoth
double-star system Eta
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Black Hole Came from a Shredded Galaxy
Astronomers have found a
cluster of young, blue stars
encircling the first
intermediate-mass black hole
ever discovered. The
presence of the star cluster
suggests that the black hole
... > full story

Newborn Stars Emerge from Dark Clouds in Taurus
A new image from the APEX
telescope in Chile shows a
sinuous filament of cosmic
dust more than ten
light-years long. In it,
newborn stars are hidden,
... > full story
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Teachers Fly Experiments on NASA Reduced Gravity Flights
February 15, 2012 More than 70 teachers had an opportunity to experience what it feels like to float in space as they participated in the Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in ... > full story -
Globular Clusters: Survivors of a 13-Billion-Year-Old Massacre
February 14, 2012 Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular clusters are almost as old as the universe ... > full story -
Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space
February 13, 2012 New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications ... > full story -
Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze in Milky Way Galaxy
February 13, 2012 New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. The views give scientists new treasures ... > full story -
Putting the Squeeze on Planets Outside Our Solar System
February 11, 2012 Using high-powered lasers, scientists have discovered that molten magnesium silicate undergoes a phase change in the liquid state, abruptly transforming to a more dense liquid with increasing ... > full story -
Mars Science Laboratory Computer Issue Resolved
February 9, 2012 Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct ... > full story -
Mobile Launcher Tests Confirm Designs, NASA Analysis Concludes
February 9, 2012 The 355-foot-tall mobile launcher, or ML, behaved as expected during its move to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November 2011, an analysis of multiple sensors showed. The ... > full story -
NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates 10 Years and 40,000 X-Ray Flares
February 9, 2012 On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager ... > full story -
Mars-Bound NASA Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup
February 9, 2012 The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has its own calibration target, a smartphone-size plaque that looks like an eye chart supplemented with color chips and an ... > full story -
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode
February 9, 2012 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode Feb. 7, 2012 as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The spacecraft is ... > full story
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