Items tagged with nasa

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Most Recent Supernova in Our Galaxy Thursday, May 15th, 2008 - 10:08:52 - Ehud Rattner The most recent supernova in our galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA's Chandra X-ray... read more

Space Telescope Recycled for Bomb Detection Sunday, May 11th, 2008 - 19:29:12 - Ehud Rattner The 9-year mission of NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ended in 2000 with a plunge into the Pacific Ocean. But its spare parts are living on — as... read more

Space Shuttle Columbia Hard Drive Survives Saturday, May 10th, 2008 - 08:19:44 - Iddo Genuth Researchers who extracted data from a hard drive onboard the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia say the device was so thoroughly damaged in the... read more

NASA Completes Series of Ares Engine Tests Friday, May 9th, 2008 - 20:16:57 - Ehud Rattner NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages... read more

Wave Pattern in Saturn's Atmosphere Thursday, May 8th, 2008 - 23:44:34 - Iddo Genuth Scientists have discovered a wavepattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years, according to two studies... read more

NASA to Recive 10 PFlops Supercomputer Thursday, May 8th, 2008 - 08:49:22 - Iddo Genuth Intel and supercomputers is a combination of words we have been hearing quite a bit lately. Today we learned that the company has secured another... read more

Space Shuttle Arrives at Launch Pad Monday, May 5th, 2008 - 12:32:17 - Ehud Rattner After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery now awaits its next major milestone for the upcoming... read more

Probe to the Sun? Sunday, May 4th, 2008 - 14:40:11 - Ehud Rattner The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds... read more

New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 - 10:51:19 - Iddo Genuth University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted... read more

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