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  Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon: Smallest Known Moon in the Neptunian System

  July 15, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant ... > full story
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  NASA's OPALS to Beam Data from Space Via Laser

  July 11, 2013 — NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen ... > full story
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  Engineers Test Microelectronic Cooling System in Zero Gravity on Board the Novespace Airbus

  July 10, 2013 — Three years of preparation supported by NASA paid off this June for researchers who conducted experiments while floating weightless on a Novespace & European Space Agency (ESA) ... > full story
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  Space Station Illuminates Dusty Plasmas for a Wide Range of Research

  July 10, 2013 — One of the most frequently-used physics laboratories on the International Space Station recently completed its final set of experiments. The Plasma Kristall Experiment (PK-3 Plus) lab, a ... > full story
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  Where Do Astronauts Go When They Need 'to Go?'

  July 10, 2013 — The first American man in space had no place "to go," and urinating in space was a tough problem for engineers to solve. A new article discusses the considerations necessary to accommodate this most ... > full story
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  Space-Time Is Not the Same for Everyone

  July 9, 2013 — Before the Big Bang, space-time as we know it did not exist. So how was it born? The process of creating normal space-time from an earlier state dominated by quantum gravity has been studied for ... > full story
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  Cluster Spacecraft Detects Elusive Space Wind

  July 2, 2013 — A new study provides the first conclusive proof of the existence of a space wind first proposed theoretically over 20 years ago. By analysing data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized

  June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story
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  New Flame Trench Will Support New Era at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B

  June 27, 2013 — For the first time since NASA's Apollo-era rockets and space shuttles lifted off on missions from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the launch pads is undergoing extensive ... > full story
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  The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy

  June 18, 2013 — 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 the night." When one telescope catches a ... > full story

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