Category: Information and Update

Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections

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    A new NASA-funded study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., finds climate model projections that show a greater rise in global temperature are likely to prove more accurate than those showing a lesser rise. The findings, published today in the journal Science, could provide a… Read more“Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections”

Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the Universe

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Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at… Read more“Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the Universe”

Expedition 32 Lands Their Soyuz in Kazakhstan

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Expedition 32 and Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA landed their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 10:53 p.m. EDT. The trio arrived at the International Space Station on May 17, and spent four… Read more“Expedition 32 Lands Their Soyuz in Kazakhstan”

Kepler Finds Multiple Planets Orbiting Two Suns

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  NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first transiting circumbinary system — multiple planets orbiting two suns – 4,900 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus. In less than a year since the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, this discovery proves that more than one planet can form… Read more“Kepler Finds Multiple Planets Orbiting Two Suns”