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New Adaptive Optics System Allows Telescope to Take Images Twice as Sharp as Hubble 26 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Thanks to new technology developed in part at the University of Arizona, astronomers can now view objects in the sky at unprecedented sharpness in visible light. Using a telescope mirror that vibrates...
August 23, 2013 Issue of “Spaceport News” Now Available Online 26 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
Spaceport News is a biweekly NASA publication that serves Kennedy Space Center civil service and contractor employees. The publication covers a variety of topics, primarily related to Kennedy’s busine...
Spitzer Celebrates 10 Years in Space 26 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency’s four Great Observatories continues to illumin...
NASA Releases “Earth Waving at Saturn” Image 22 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back towa...
“Kirobo” Talking Companion Robot Launched Into Space 22 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
Kirobo, the talking robot that also recognizes faces, was launched into space on August 4, inside a Japanese cargo transfer vehicle headed for the International Space Station. The 13.4-inch-tall robo...
How Astronaut Luca Parmitano Nearly Drowned in Space 21 Aug 2013 | 06:21 pm
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy were hard at work outside the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time, when water started to leak into Luca Parmitano’s ...
The Prevalence of Hot Jupiters 19 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
When the Space Age began, astronomers knew of exactly zero planets outside the solar system. What a difference 50 years makes. Modern, ground-based telescopes and NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have now co...
Russian Meteor Plume Tracked and Modeled by NASA 17 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Atmospheric physicist Nick Gorkavyi missed witnessing an event of the century last winter when a meteor exploded over his hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia. From Greenbelt, Md., however, NASA’s Gorkavyi...
Phobos Eclipses Deimos as Seen From the Curiosity Mars Rover 17 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. Large craters on Phobos are clearl...
AAVSO Alert Notice 489: Nova Delphinus 2013 = PNV J20233073+2046041 17 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
AAVSO Alert Notice 489 Nova Delphinus 2013 = PNV J20233073+2046041 August 16, 2013 Event: Nova Del 2013 = PNV J20233073+2046041 Discovered by: Koichi Itagaki (Teppo-cho, Yamagata, Japan), reported...
