Have a blast exploring the universe at a FREE open house event at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Explore@NASA Goddard, on Saturday, May 14, from 11am to 5pm rain or shine, is full of family fun, music, food, and science. Free satellite parking and transportation to Goddard… Read more“xplore@NASA Goddard: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. FREE!”
Day: May 12, 2011
NASA’s Fermi Spots ‘Superflares’ in the Crab Nebula
WASHINGTON — The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope first detected the outburst, which lasted six days. The nebula is the wreckage of an exploded… Read more“NASA’s Fermi Spots ‘Superflares’ in the Crab Nebula”
Galileo Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon
PASADENA, Calif. — New data analysis from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding heralds the first direct confirmation of this kind of magma layer at Io and explains why the moon is the… Read more“Galileo Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon”