
The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy
NuSTAR has been busy
studying the most energetic
phenomena in the universe.
Recently, a few high-energy
events have sprung up, akin
to "things that go bump in
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Shining a Light on Cool Pools of Gas in the Galaxy
Newly formed stars shine
brightly, practically crying
out, "Hey, look at me!" But
not everything in our Milky
Way galaxy is easy to see.
The bulk of material between
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Moon Radiation Findings May Reduce Health Risks to Astronauts
Space scientists report that
data gathered by NASA's
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
show lighter materials like
plastics provide effective
... > full story

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure
After a month of being
poked, prodded and
pressurized in ways that
mimicked the stresses of
spaceflight, NASA's Orion
crew module successfully
... > full story
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Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets
June 3, 2013 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and ... > full story -
Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones
June 1, 2013 The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance ... > full story -
Engineers Develop Skills for Future Flight Systems at 'Rocket U'
June 1, 2013 As NASA plans for future spaceflight programs to low-Earth orbit and beyond, teams of engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are gaining flight systems experience in designing and launching ... > full story -
Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions
May 30, 2013 Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human ... > full story -
New Mathematical Model Links Space-Time Theories
May 30, 2013 Researchers have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our ... > full story -
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Weightlessness of Space Used to Design Better Materials for Earth
May 29, 2013 Scientists are using the weightlessness of space to design stronger materials here on ... > full story -
NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-Ray Navigation Technologies
May 20, 2013 Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as ... > full story -
NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development
May 16, 2013 NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in ... > full story -
Galaxy's 'Burning Ring of Fire' Is Frenetic Region of Star Formation
May 16, 2013 Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center of a new image in red and yellow hues ... > full story -
NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation
May 15, 2013 Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space ... > full story
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