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  Entrepreneur Giving Space Shuttle Truss New Uses

  May 14, 2013 — A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space shuttle engineer-turned-entrepreneur adapts it to everything from a solar-powered electric ... > full story
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  First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013

  May 14, 2013 — On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class flare of 2013 so far, surpassing in strength the X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 ... > full story

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  Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas

  May 7, 2013 — The Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way ... > full story
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  Telling Time on Saturn: Undergraduate Student Shows How Planet's Magnetosphere Changes With the Seasons

  May 3, 2013 — An undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn ... > full story
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  The Day NASA's Fermi Dodged a 1.5-Ton Bullet

  May 1, 2013 — NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, ... > full story
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  Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space

  April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story
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  NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

  April 30, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, ... > full story
• Atmosphere
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  NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves

  April 26, 2013 — A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific in the next few weeks to help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere ... > full story
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  NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

  April 25, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only ... > full story
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  Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact

  April 23, 2013 — Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ... > full story

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