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Hubble Status Report
12.30.08 - On December 15, Hubble engineers restarted the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System (NCS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Next NASA Moon Mission Completes Major Milestone
12.23.08 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch.
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Hubble Status Report
12.19.08 - Servicing Mission 4 to the Hubble Space Telescope is currently on track for a mid-May 2009 launch based on a successful Pre-Environmental Readiness Review (PERR) held December 16 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for the flight spare Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI/C&DH).
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New One-of-a-Kind Technology Will Fly on Two NASA Missions
12.19.08 - NASA researchers have created an advanced data compression algorithm that will increase science data return for NASA missions.
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NASA Goddard and University of Idaho Create Solutions for 2 NASA Missions
12.19.08 - NASA researchers have created an advanced data compression algorithm that will increase science data return for NASA missions.
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Explore the Entire Region of the Sun's Influence
12.19.08 - Inspired by a desire to make finding space physics information as easy as book lovers locate a text on Amazon.com, the heliophysics virtual observatories offer a wealth of resources to learn more about the sun, Earth and heliosphere.
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Sun Often "Tears Out A Wall" In Earth's Solar Storm Shield
12.16.08 - Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
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Mission Operations Readiness Review for NPOESS Preparatory Project Completed
12.16.08 - A comprehensive Mission Operations Readiness (MOR) review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) was successfully completed last month.
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New Satellite Data Reveal Impact of Olympic Pollution Controls
12.16.08 - China had clearer skies and easier breathing in mind in the summer of 2008 when they temporarily shuttered some factories and banished many cars in a pre-Olympic sprint to clean up Beijing's air.
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Space Has Never Been Closer: NASA Instruments Document Contraction of the Boundary between the Earth’s Ionosphere and Space
12.15.08 - Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth’s upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes.
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Solar Flare Surprise
12.15.08 - A 2006 solar flare surprised scientists by behaving in unexpected ways.
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2008 Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rainfall
12.12.08 - Hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression rainfall caused many severe floods and numerous lost lives during the 2008 north Atlantic hurricane season.
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James Webb Telescope Mirrors Chill Out
12.10.08 - The first of 18 mirror segments that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope arrived at the Marshall Space Flight Center to prepare it to meet the extreme temperatures it will encounter in space.
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Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet
12.09.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
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Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope Exhibit Travels to Pittsburgh
12.08.08 - An interactive exhibit showcasing NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes is on display in Pittsburgh.
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NASA Sets Target Shuttle Launch Date for Hubble Servicing Mission
12.04.08 - NASA announced Thursday that space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is targeted to launch May 12, 2009.
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Swift Looks to Comets for a Cool View
12.03.08 - Swift caught sight of a splintered comet fragment as it passed by the Ring Nebula.
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NASA Selects NOAA GOES-R Series Spacecraft Contractor
12.02.08 - Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Denver was selected to build the satellites for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES-R, Program.
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NASA-USAID Earth Observation System Expands to Africa
11.21.08 - NASA, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and their partners are in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch SERVIR-Africa, a program that helps scientists, government leaders and local communities address concerns related to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, biodiversity and climate change.
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Water Vapor Confirmed as Major Player in Climate Change
11.17.08 - Researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change.
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'Firefly' CubeSat Mission to Study Link Between Lightning and Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes
11.17.08 - A new nano satellite mission, called 'Firefly,' sponsored by the National Science Foundation and led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will explore the relationship between lightning and these sudden bursts, called Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes.
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Hubble Sees Planet Orbiting Another Star
11.13.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star.
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The James Webb Telescope's Super-Tough Sunshield
11.12.08 - Northrop Grumman has created a Sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope that can withstand the harsh environment of space.
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Arctic Sea Ice Decline Shakes Up Ocean Ecosystems
11.07.08 - Researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to show that the microscopic floating plants are teeming in regions of recent ice melt.
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Blind Engineer Finds Solution to Soyuz Re-entry Issue
11.07.08 - A blind engineer at Goddard had the vision for a solution to a problem that ultimately required a trip to Europe to help with a Soyuz capsule re-entry.
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NASA Invites Students to Become Rocket Scientists at the Sunday Experiment
11.7.08 - On Sunday, November 16, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center invites elementary school students to a free afternoon of eye-opening, hands-on activities that will help you experience what it’s like to be a NASA engineer.
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NASA and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC Sell Government Patent License
11.04.08 - NASA and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC today announced the first ever sale of a government patent license through a public auction of intellectual property.
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NOAA-N Prime Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg for Launch
11.04.08 - The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a February 4, 2009 launch.
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NASA Goddard Exploration Sciences Building is Almost 70 Percent Complete
10.29.08 - Tthe Exploration Sciences Building continues to be built at a feverish pace, nearing 70% complete.
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NASA Selects Goddard Program Analysis and Control Contractor
10.29.08 - NASA has selected ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, LLC, of Greenbelt, Md., to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract.
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Halloween Storms of 2003 Still the Scariest
10.27.08 - Did you know the weeks surrounding this All Hallow’s Eve mark a haunting milestone? – the 5-year anniversary of some the most powerful solar storms ever recorded.
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Goddard Women Recognized At International Forum
10.27.08 - Two Goddard employees have been recognized by the National Women of Color (WOC) Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as 2008 WOC All-Stars and Rising Stars of Technology.
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Goddard Challenges America's Best in Science
10.24.08 - A documentary of the Young Scientist Challenge, held in October 2008 at Goddard, will be produced for the Discovery channel in early 2009.
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Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test
10.23.08 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space.
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NASA Launches IBEX Mission to Outer Solar System
10.19.08 - IBEX will build an image of the outer boundary of the solar system from impacts on the spacecraft by high-speed particles called energetic neutral atoms.
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Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks and Chemistry for First Life
10.16.08 - A new look at a classic experiment reveals volcanoes may have played a crucial role in the rise of life on Earth.
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Hubble Status Report #2
10.16.08 - During the night of Oct. 15, Space Telescope Operations Control Center engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center turned on and checked out Side ‘B’ of Hubble’s Science Instrument Control and Data Handling (SI C&DH) system.
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Two Black Holes Teach Astronomers a Lesson
10.15.08 - Observations of two different systems -- each containing stellar-mass black holes -- are showing astronomers how much they have yet to learn.
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Hubble Status Report #1
10.15.08 - The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 15.
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Switch to Side B of the SIC&DH Approved
10.14.08 - The Hubble team today received approval from officials at NASA Headquarters to reconfigure a failed data handling unit on Hubble to begin operations on a redundant side of the unit.
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IBEX Launches Research Platform, Makes Childhood Dream a Reality
10.14.08 - The IBEX mission will provide Greg Frazier with just the example he needs to showcase his knowledge of what it takes to reach the stars.
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Earth Science Week 2008: Videos
View videos produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as part of Earth Science Week 2008.
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James Webb Telescope Model Will Fly to Germany
10.08.08 - The model of the James Webb Space Telescope has been making a lot of "orbits" around the world, and is now slated to "land" at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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Apollo Heat Shield Uncrated After 35 Years, Will Help with New Crew Vehicle
10.08.08 - NASA scientists have uncrated heat shields used on the Apollo missions to aid development of the upcoming Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.
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Top Winners Announced for Discovery 3M Challenge
10.07.08 - Melissa Rey from Chesterfield, Mo., was named "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
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Rising Arctic Storm Activity Sways Sea Ice, Climate
10.06.08 - NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century directly accelerated the rate of arctic sea ice drift which is a harbinger of climate change.
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Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
10.06.08 - Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age.
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Discovery 3M Challenge to Conclude Oct. 6 at Goddard
10.06.08 - The final day of competition for The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist concludes the evening of Oct. 6, 2008.
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NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere
10.02.08 - Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision and found that it is not a perfect sphere.
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Infrared Echoes Give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova Flashback
10.01.08 - Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope say that hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments.
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A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears
09.30.08 - Astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- and then vanished.
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NASA Commemoration Includes Discovery Challenge at Goddard
09.29.08 - Ten middle school student finalists from across the country will vie for the title of "America's Top Young Scientist" at Goddard in early October.
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NASA Data Show Arctic Saw Fastest August Sea Ice Retreat on Record
09.26.08 - NASA data are showing that for a four-week period in August 2008, sea ice melted faster during that period than ever before.
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Scientists Detect Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Across Billions of Light Years
09.23.08 - Scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters.
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NASA Satellite Sees the Oldest-Ever Gamma-ray Burst from the Edge of the Visible Universe
09.22.08 - NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast arose from a star 12.8 billion light-years away.
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NASA Selects Contractor for Landsat Mission Operations Element
09.17.08 - NASA selected The Hammers Company, Greenbelt, Md., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE).
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Shake, Rattle and Roll: James Webb Telescope Components Pass Tests
9.17.08 - When it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space, the more you test your hardware, the better.
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Goddard's LaunchFest a Great Success
09.15.08 - Thousands converged on Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. this past Saturday to celebrate LaunchFest. The predicted rain held off, encouraging approximately 13,000 people to visit the Center.
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Finding Fireflies next to a Lighthouse: Goddard's New Technology to Study Alien Worlds
09.12.08 - Scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have joined teams studying optics technologies for three possible new NASA missions to search for alien worlds (exoplanets).
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NASA Study Illustrates How Global Peak Oil Could Impact Climate
09.10.08 - NASA researchers have identified feasible emission scenarios that could keep carbon dioxide below levels that some scientists have called dangerous for climate.
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NASA and Ocean Tomo Establish Groundbreaking Partnership to Commercialize NASA Technologies
09.08.08 - NASA and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC announced the beginning of a new partnership to commercialize over 40 NASA-funded technologies to the private sector for commercial application.
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Baltimore, DC Media Invited to Sneak Peek of NASA's "Launchfest" at Goddard Sept. 11, 10:00 AM
09.08.08 - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., will open its doors to the public September 13 to learn about the more than 12 missions Goddard is launching in a year.
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2008 Hurricane Season Kicks Into High Gear
09.04.08 - For the first time in the 2008 hurricane season, there are four tropical cyclones active in the Atlantic Ocean basin on one day.
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Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) to the Moon
Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. It's up to LRO to make those landings as safe as possible.
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NASA Goddard Invites Public To See "Launchfest"!
09.02.08 - The public is invited to come and see the expertise, technology and challenges associated with space exploration when NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center holds its Launchfest open house Sept. 13, 2008.
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D.C. and Baltimore Media Invited to Briefings for Hubble Telescope Shuttle Mission
09.02.08 - NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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GLAST named after Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi
08.26.08 - At a teleconference on Aug. 26, 2008, NASA announced it was giving a new name to the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, launched June 11, 2008.
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2007 Hurricane Forecast Took Blow From Winds, Dusty Air
08.18.08 - A new analysis of environmental conditions over the Atlantic Ocean shows that hot, dry air associated with dust outbreaks from the Sahara desert likely contributed to the quieter-than-expected 2007 hurricane season.
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NASA Study Improves Ability to Predict How Aerosols Affect Climate
08.14.08 - Researchers have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles released from forest fires, influence cloud cover and affect climate.
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Franklin, Va., Native Recognized Among NASA's Best, Brightest
08.07.08 - Sherrica Newsome currently finds herself as Operations Manager for the 2008 NASA Academy at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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African Drought Linked to Warmer Indian Ocean
08.05.08 - A new study has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa.
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NASA Awards Distributed Active Archive Center Contract
08.04.08 - The total estimated cost of the contract is $20,412,996 over the five-year period of performance.
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NASA Tests Moon Imaging Spacecraft at Goddard
07.31.08 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed the first round of environmental testing at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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GLAST Team Fine-Tuning Instrument and Operations
07.28.08 - One of the priorities of the GLAST Burst Monitor science team has been to validate burst location information provided by the telescope.
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IBEX Spacecraft Heads West, Takes Major Step Toward Launch
07.25.08 - NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image global interactions at the outer reaches of the solar system, today began its move to Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California.
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NASA Satellites Discover What Powers Northern Lights
07.24.08 - Researchers have discovered that an explosion of magnetic energy powers sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the Northern Lights.
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Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit ‘Surgery’
07.23.08 - When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit ‘surgery’ on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope.
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Plight of the Puffins
07.17.08 - GSFC Earth Science film producer Maria Frostic explores the world of Iceland's puffin population in her upcoming PBS documentary.
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NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
07.17.08 - Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds.
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NASA Names Strain New Goddard Space Flight Center Director
07.17.08 - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Thursday announced that Rob Strain will be the next center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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For Toy-Like NASA Robots in Arctic, Ice Research Is Child's Play
07.15.08 - SnoMotes are the first prototype network of their kind envisioned to rove treacherous areas of the Arctic and Antarctic.
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Summer Storms Could Mean More Dead Zones
07.11.08 - When summer storms arrive, it's not only beach-goers who are affected; the rains can also have an impact on living creatures far below the ocean surface.
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Life-Size Webb Telescope Model Going to Montreal
07.10.08 - The full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope resumes its world tour with a stop in Montreal, July 13 through July 20, 2008.
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Goddard Gets on iTunes
07.07.08 - Now available on iTunes, the NASA Goddard Shorts video podcast series keeps subscribers updated with cool science and engineering breakthroughs.
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STEREO Creates Images of the Solar System's Invisible Frontier
07.02.08 - STEREO findings help scientists map the energized particles where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.
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Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again on a Work Day?
07.01.08 - A new NASA study has found that storms are more intense during the work week than on the weekends.
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GLAST Mission Operations at NASA Goddard Powered Up
07.02.08 - Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite.
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California Wildfires Continue to Burn Out of Control
07.01.08 - Numerous wildfires continue to burn out of control throughout California.
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Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On
07.01.08 - NASA’s Solar Shield experiment explores how timely space weather forecasts can help power companies keep the power flowing to the many appliances and electronic gadgets we rely on every day.
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NASA Goddard Has More Than a Dozen Exciting Missions in Next Year
07.01.08 - These missions include a final repair trip to upgrade the famous Hubble Space Telescope and spacecraft to study powerful gamma-rays, the moon, the Sun, and Earth's weather and pollution.
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Proposed NASA Mission Could Explore Twisted Space Around Black Holes
06.30.08 - The proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. GEMS will be the first mission designed just to measure the polarization of X-rays emitted near black holes, which will enable scientists to explore the exotic space around black holes in an unprecedented way.
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SOHO Celebrates 1,500th Comet Discovery
06.27.08 - SOHO has discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all the other discoverers of comets throughout history put together.
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NASA Goddard Mission Approved to Probe Matter in Extreme Environments
06.26.08 - NASA Headquarters approves an instrument to study the extreme environments of the universe.
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Fires in California
06.24.08 - Smoke billows from scattered wildfires in California, as captured by NASA's Aqua Satellite.
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One Million Names to the Moon
07.01.08
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GLAST Safely in Orbit, Getting Check-ups
06.18.08 - Less than a week after launch, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 350 miles (565 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
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University Faculty and Students to "Rock On!" With NASA
06.13.08 - During RockOn!, university faculty and students will learn the basics of building experiments for flight on suborbital rockets.
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Washington and Baltimore Area Reporters Invited to Hubble Media Day
06.13.08 - News representatives are invited to attend a media day event on July 1 to learn about NASA's ambitious mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath
06.12.08 - After the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China, NASA data came to the aid of officials by tapping into a unique set of NASA data products describing the location of the exposed populations.
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NASA's GLAST Launch Successful
06.11.08 - NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched successfully on June 11, 2008, at 12:05 p.m. ET.
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Zhang's Glass Kitchen
06.11.08 - After 10 years of fine-tuning a technique to efficiently manufacture super-thin, curved mirrors needed to focus X-ray photons, Goddard astrophysicist Will Zhang and his team have won a position on the NuSTAR mission to provide the telescope’s more than 3,000 individual mirror segments.
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GLAST is Ready to Go!
06.10.08 - NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" from all teams.
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For Hurricanes, Storms, Raindrop Size Makes All the Difference
06.09.08 - Making a proper distinction by looking at both raindrop size and abundance may be a key to assisting weather forecasters in estimating rainfall intensity to reduce the surprise factor of flash flooding.
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NASA Targets GLAST Launch for no Earlier than June 11
06.05.08 - The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for no earlier than June 11.
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Star Trek's George Takei Beams Down to Goddard
06.05.08 - George Takei, famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," visited Goddard on June 3, 2008, to deliver a lecture on diversity.
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NASA Scientists Pioneer Method for Making Giant Lunar Telescopes
06.04.08 - We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting a large mirror from Earth.
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NASA Targets GLAST Launch for June 7
06.03.08 - NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Media Invited for NASA LRO Media Day
06.03.08 - LRO Media Day will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT.
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Hunt for Superearth Planets Underway
06.02.08 - The EPOXI mission uses the Deep Impact spacecraft has begun its search for "super Earth" planets.
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NASA Awards Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Contract
05.29.08 - NASA has selected the University of Colorado at Boulder for the management and operations of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center.
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Fairfax Student Accepted for NASA Goddard Engineering Internship
05.29.08 - Katherine Heinzen, a student from Fairfax, Va., will spend this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. as a participant of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program.
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Idaho Student Accepted for NASA Goddard Engineering Internship
06.02.08 - Ryan Sheridan, a student from Moscow, Idaho, will spend this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. as a participant of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program.
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Excitement Builds as GLAST Readies Its Gamma-ray Vision!
05.30.08 - Scientists around the world are excited about all the things that GLAST is going to uncover after it launches on June 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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Goddard Scientists Receive Lindsay Award for Black Hole Research
05.30.08 - Dr. Joan M. Centrella and Dr. John G. Baker are the 2008 recipients of the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science.
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NASA Targets GLAST Launch For June 5
05.29.08 - The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Thursday, June 5. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT and remains unchanged through Aug. 7.
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NASA Presentations at AAS Meeting in St. Louis
05.29.08 - NASA has several presentations at the 212th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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NASA Scientists' Model Reveals How Superstorm Plasma Affects Near-Earth Space
05.29.08 - NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interacts with Earth's magnetosphere.
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Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue to Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere
05.29.08 - Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the coronal heating enigma.
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Goddard Selects 2008 Contractor Excellence Award Winners
05.21.07 - Goddard has awarded its highest honor for quality and technical performance to three companies that have contributed significantly to the center's mission.
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NASA Inspires Students to Center the Earth With Eccentrics
05.23.07 - Students from all over the world will gather to participate in a creative problem-solving competition, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., May 31 through June 3.
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Satellites Illuminate Pollution's Influence On Clouds
05.27.08 - Clouds serve a valuable role in Earth's climate, and thanks to A-Train, a closer look at them is possible.
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Winds in Jupiter's Little Red Spot Almost Twice as Fast as Strongest Hurricane
05.21.08 - With winds of about 384 miles per hour, some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet, Jupiter's Little Red Spot could blow away any hurricane on Earth.
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Swift Satellite Catches First Supernova in the Act of Exploding
05.21.08 - Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASA’s Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding.
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NASA Researcher Awarded 2008 Arthur S. Flemming Award
05.20.07 - Christa Peters-Lidard of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has been awarded the 2007 Arthur S. Flemming Award in the category of Applied Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
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The Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare
05.19.08 - On April 25, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known as EV Lacertae.
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NASA Selects Goddard Program Analysis and Control Contractor
05.16.07 - NASA has selected SP Systems Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract.
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Earth Impacts Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change
05.14.08 - A new NASA-led study shows that human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems.
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NASA Study Links Earth Impacts to Human-Caused Climate Change
05.14.08 - A new NASA-led study shows that human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems.
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Md. Lt. Governor Visits Goddard Space Flight Center
05.13.08 - Goddard Space Flight Center welcomed Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown to its facility on May 12, 2008.
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NASA's GLAST Gets Shades, Blankets for the Beach
05.13.08 - NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near the beaches of eastern central Florida for its launch.
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Striking a Balance with Climate Change
05.07.08 - The sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate.
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Saturn Does the Wave in Its Atmosphere
05.07.08 - Scientists have discovered a wave pattern in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years.
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Visionary 'NASA Exploration Experience' Exhibit to Tour Connecticut May 14 - June 4
05.07.07 - America’s plans for opening the space frontier are featured in an interactive exhibit scheduled to tour Connecticut for three weeks beginning May 14.
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NASA Goddard and Howard B. Owens Science Center Celebrate Partnership That Inspires Prince George's Students
05.07.07 - Goddard and the Howard B. Owens Science Center will celebrate a first year partnership created to inspire and educate students in the study of Earth science.
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Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO!
05.01.08 - NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on Cue
04.30.08 - Astronomers have discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a neutron star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions.
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‘Broken Heart’ Image the Last for NASA’s Long-Lived Polar Mission
04.28.08 - NASA’s Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora.
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Solar Flares Set the Sun Quaking
04.23.08 - Powerful starquakes ripple around the sun in the wake of mighty solar flares.
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NASA Satellites Aid in Chesapeake Bay Recovery
04.22.08 - The nation's largest estuary just happens to be in the backyard of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Powerful Antenna Attached to NASA's GLAST Satellite
04.21.08 - The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft.
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Researchers Warm Up to Melt's Role in Greenland Ice Loss
04.17.08 - Scientists have used computer models to show how melt could contribute to the observed speed up of the ice sheet.
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Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Awoke Centuries Ago
04.15.08 - Compared to the giant black holes in the centers of other galaxies, the Milky Way's black hole is strangely quiet.
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World Space Party Draws Hundreds to NASA Goddard
04.14.08 - Hundreds came to Goddard's Visitor Center to celebrate the anniversary of the first manned spaceflight and the first flight of the space shuttle.
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NASA Researcher Visits One Tough P.I.G.
04.14.08 - In January 2008, NASA's Dr. Robert Bindschadler led an expedition to a previously untouched part of Antarctica.
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Delta II Rocket Coming Together for NASA's GLAST Satellite Launch
04.14.08 - The Delta II 7920-H rocket that will launch GLAST is in the process of being assembled on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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NASA Officials Say No Chemicals Released During Incident at Goddard
04.08.08 - NASA Goddard officials have announced that an incident earlier this evening in a building at Goddard did not involve a chemical spill or release of any hazardous material.
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NASA Selects Three Research Fellows for GLAST Mission
04.07.08 - After a nationwide search for junior science researchers on GLAST mission, three people have been chosen for these prestigious post-doctoral positions.
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SDO Design Fosters Perfect Fit
04.03.08 - The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft bus was lowered onto the propulsion module, and it attached on the first try.
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'Focused' Solar Explosions Get Hotter
04.02.01 - A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused".
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Scientists Identify Smallest Black Hole
04.01.08 - Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have identified the smallest known black hole in the universe.
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Goddard Scientists to Hunt for Treasure on the Moon
03.31.08 - NASA selected two proposals from Goddard researchers to assist with measurements the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will make.
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RELEASE: Goddard Wins Awards for LRO
03.31.08 - NASA selected two proposals from Goddard researchers to assist with measurements the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will make.
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NASA Awards University of Alaska Data Center Contract
03.28.08 - NASA has selected the University of Alaska for the management and operations of the EOS Data and Information System Synthetic Aperture Radar DACC.
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Warm 'Tiger Stripes' on Geyser Moon Raise Hopes for Life
03.27.08 - The "Tiger Stripe" region on Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be even warmer than previous measurements indicated.
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NASA Detects Explosion Halfway Across Universe
03.20.08 - A powerful stellar explosion detected by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object visible with the naked eye.
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Webb Telescope Sunshield Design Review Complete
03.20.08 - The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review.
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NASA Satellite Measures Pollution From East Asia to North America
03.17.08 - NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another.
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Goddard Delivers Aquarius Radiometer to JPL
03.17.08 - The Aquarius Radiometer, recently delivered by Goddard to JPL, will help scientists study ocean salinity and its relation to climate.
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New Hubble Parts Endure Environmental Tests
03.13.08 - To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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GLAST Spacecraft Arrives in Florida to Prepare for Launch
03.07.08 - Liftoff of GLAST aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 11:45 a.m. EDT on May 16.
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NASA Awards Professional/Administration Support Services Contract
02.29.08 - NASA has selected Sevatec Inc. in Arlington, Va. for professional and administrative support services for the Office of Human Capital Management at Goddard.
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Spring is Aurora Season
03.04.08 - For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why.
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SDO Mission to Improve Predictions of Violent Space Weather
03.03.08 - SDO will discover how the sun builds up and explosively releases magnetic energy, which powers severe space weather.
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2008 Goddard Symposium Focus, Space Exploration and Commercialization
02.15.08 - Goddard Symposium to focus on "Going to Work in Space."
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SOHO to Give Early Warning of Radiation Storms
02.27.08 - Advance warning of radiation storms could give astronauts time to take cover and allow satellite operators to take protective measures.
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NASA's Swift Satellite Catches a Galaxy Ablaze With Starbirth
02.26.08 - NASA’s Swift satellite demonstrates what happens when astronomers look at a galaxy in ultraviolet light.
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Killer Electrons Surf Celestial Tsunamis
02.25.08 - Boosted to almost the speed of light, "killer electrons" can knock out computers, pierce spacesuits and damage the tissues of astronauts.
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NASA and Northrup Grumman Partner to 'Measure the Immeasurable' in Climate Change and Planetary Science
02.21.08 - Answering bold questions about life and climate on Earth and other planets is the goal behind a new Space Act Agreement signed between Goddard and Northrop Grumman.
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Powerful Explosions Suggest Neutron Star Missing Link
02.21.08 - Astronomers have found a neutron star that seems to share characteristics of both types of neutron stars.
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Greenland's Rising Air Temperatures Drive Ice Loss at Surface and Beyond
02.21.08 - A new NASA study confirms that the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, fueling the loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout the mass beneath.
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Miniaturized 'SIDECAR' Drives Webb Telescope's Signal
02.20.08 - New microprocessors for the telescope are about the size of a half-dollar and can do the same job as a 20-pound electronics box.
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NASA Team Works Toward Internet-Equipped Satellites
02.19.08 - Internet technologies that enable computers to talk to each other may make it possible for satellites to communicate the same way.
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Tiny MidSTAR-1 Sensor Acts as Chemical Detector
02.19.08 - The tiny sensor, only the size of a quarter, acts like a smoke detector. It can sense chemicals and gases that may be harmful to astronauts.
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GLAST's Delta II Rocket's First Stage Arrives in Cape Canaveral
02.13.08 - The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch GLAST into space arrived at Hangar M at Cape Canaveral.
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NASA Hosts Educator Winter Camp in Lake Placid, New York
02.08.08 - A winter camp for educators known as History of Winter 2008 will be hosted by a team from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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NASA Selects Bronx School to Fly Aboard 'Weightless Wonder'
02.07.08 - NASA has selected Lorraine Hansberry Academy of the Bronx, New York City, New York, to fly a student-designed experiment aboard the agency’s reduced gravity aircraft, the “Weightless Wonder.”
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NASA's Deep Impact Begins Hunt for Alien Worlds
02.07.08 - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien planets as it enters its extended mission, called EPOXI.
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NASA Awards Aircraft Catalog Blanket Purchase Agreement
02.08.08 - NASA has selected 10 offerors to provide the agency with access to a variety of airborne platforms to conduct airborne science research and range support.
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Hildebrand Named American Meteorological Society Fellow
02.08.08 - Dr. Peter Hildebrand was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
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2007 Hurricane Season Starts Early, Ends Late
02.08.08 - The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going.
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NASA Calls for Suggestions to Rename Future Telescope Mission
02.08.08 - NASA announced the public will have a chance to suggest a new name for the cutting edge Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope observatory before it launches in mid-2008.
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Saturn's Giant Sponge
02.05.08 - One of Saturn's rings soaks up material gushing from the fountains on the tiny ice-moon, Enceladus, according to new Cassini observations.
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NASA Data Link Pollution to Rainy Summer Days in the Southeast
02.01.08 - Scientists believe that pollution is causing more rainfall midweek than on weekends.
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NASA Scientist to Present at Polar Gateways Arctic Circle Sunrise 2008 Conference
01.22.08 - Scientists from NASA and organizations around the world will convene physically and electronically in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost U.S. city, during the first week of Arctic sunrise at Barrow January 23 – 29.
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NASA Astrophysicist Wins Arctowski Medal
01.30.08 - The National Academy of Sciences will award the 2008 Arctowski Medal to Dr. Leonard Burlaga, an Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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NASA-Funded Keck Instrument Nails Nova
01.29.08 - New data from the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful stellar explosions.
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El Niño at Source of More Intense Wintertime Storms
01.28.08 - Researchers now believe that some of the most intense winter storm activity over parts of the United States may have origins in far-flung parts of the Pacific Ocean.
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Monster Storms Erupt on Jupiter
01.25.08 - Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream on Jupiter in March, 2007. Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere.
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Out-of-This-World Tools for Hubble Tasks
01.24.08 - A team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Goddard Kicks Off 2008 with a 'Poster Party'
01.18.08 - The Science Poster Party Blowout started 2008 with a celebration of Goddard’s scientific discoveries and achievements.
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2007 Was Tied as Earth's Second-Warmest Year
01.16.08 - NASA scientists have determined that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth’s second warmest year in a century.
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NASA Media Event Highlights Rainfall Satellite's Decade of Success
01.16.08 - In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the first scientific results from the TRMM satellite, media are invited to a media roundtable on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 11 a.m. EST.
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NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle
01.11.08 - NASA scientists say a new solar cycle is beginning, and this could have important repercussions for space-based technology, such as GPS and weather satellites.
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La Niña: 'Little Girl' Makes Big Impression
01.10.08 - Cool, wet conditions in the Northwest, frigid weather on the Plains, and record dry conditions in the Southeast are all signs that La Niña is in full swing.
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NASA Scientists Predict Black Hole Light Echo Show
01.10.08 - New studies show the wrenching gravity just outside the outer boundary of a black hole can produce yet another bizarre effect: light echoes.
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Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring
01.10.08 - Hubble has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other.
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Hubble Uncovers Interstellar 'Moth'
01.10.08 - What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into planetary system formation.
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The Violent Lives of Galaxies
01.10.08 - Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies.
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Vast Cloud of Antimatter Traced to Binary Stars
01.09.08 - After four years of observations, a European satellite named Integral may have solved one of our galaxy's greatest mysteries.
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Hubble Finds That "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars
01.08.08 - Hubble has found them to be brilliant blue clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup 200 million years ago.
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NASA and Gemini Probe Mysterious Distant Explosion
01.08.08 - A powerful one-two punch for astronomy happens when you team up orbiting and ground-based observatories.
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NASA Sends Deep Impact Spacecraft on Mission to Comet Hartley 2
01.07.08 - The original target, comet Boethin, is lost in space.
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Third Instrument for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Arrives at Goddard
01.02.08 - The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly was delivered to Goddard in preparation for SDO's scheduled launch in December 2008.
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White Dwarf Pulses Like a Pulsar
01.02.08 - Astronomers using the Suzaku satellite have discovered a white dwarf that is acting like a neutron star.