• Dwarfed by Saturn

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  • A Ghost in Cepheus

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:01:34
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets A Ghost in Cepheus By Keith Cowing Posted October 31, 2012 11:01 AM View Comments NASA Ced 201 Described as a dusty curtain or ghostly apparition , mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 really is very faint . Far from your neighborhood on this Halloween Night , the cosmic phantom is nearly 1,400 light-years . away Also catalogued as Ced 201, it lies along the northern Milky Way in the royal constellation Cepheus . Near the edge of a large molecular cloud , pockets of interstellar dust in the region block light

  • Nearby galaxy steals from neighbor Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:55:33
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  • Nearby galaxy steals from neighbor Astronomy Magazine

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  • New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:41:38
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation By Keith Cowing Posted October 30, 2012 6:41 PM View Comments NASA The Moon False Color New research , funded by the NASA Lunar Science Institute NLSI theorizes that our early Earth and moon were both created together in a giant collision of two planetary bodies that were each five times the size of . Mars This new theory about how Earth's moon formed is challenging the commonly believed giant impact hypothesis , which suggests that Earth's moon formed from a colossal impact

  • Fingerprinting Martian Minerals

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:32:54
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Fingerprinting Martian Minerals By Keith Cowing Posted October 30, 2012 6:32 PM View Comments NASA MSL image of Mars NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in . Hawaii The minerals were identified in the first sample of Martian soil ingested recently by the rover . Curiosity used its Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument CheMin to obtain the results , which are filling gaps and adding confidence

  • SLS: Cool Ideas + No Budget = No Payload

    Updated: 2012-10-30 20:31:27
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  • Dogs are Not Hippos - Even in Space

    Updated: 2012-10-30 18:43:34
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  • SDO Website Offline Due to Hurricane That Is Not Even Here Yet (Update)

    Updated: 2012-10-30 17:55:39
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  • Hurricane Damages Bubble Protecting Shuttle Enterprise

    Updated: 2012-10-30 15:37:28
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  • Prospects for Commercial Space Continue to Rise

    Updated: 2012-10-30 15:22:23
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  • Latest on Hurricane Sandy (Updated)

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:25:00
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  • Beautiful objects from the Index Catalogue Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-10-30 02:34:02
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  • Jupiter brightens the December sky Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-10-30 02:34:02
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  • December 2012 Curiosity†s first days on Mars Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA Hurricane Hunter

    Updated: 2012-10-30 00:43:04
    NASA Preps Drone Hurricane Hunters, But Misses Sandy, Wired "Hurricane Sandy has slammed onto the eastern seaboard. There's been widespread damage and flooding across more than six states. There's been loss of life. But at NASA, researchers are developing a pair of experimental unmanned drones to track future storms in the hope of being better prepared for when they strike."

  • A deeper glimpse at star formation Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-10-29 18:26:58
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  • Watch the Curiosity rover in action Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-10-29 18:26:51
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  • Astronomy tests Celestron†s SkyProdigy 6 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Astronomy tests Celestron†s SkyProdigy 6 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Skidmore Apps Dark Sky Finder Astronomy Magazine

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  • Skidmore Apps Dark Sky Finder Astronomy Magazine

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  • Explore Scientific ED152 f 8 Air-Spaced Triplet Astronomy Magazine

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  • Hurricane Sandy Tracking and Views from the Space Station

    Updated: 2012-10-29 16:31:58
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  • NASA Watch Updating

    Updated: 2012-10-29 16:10:11
    Keith's note: Power will eventually go out here in the metro DC area as hurricane Sandy strikes. When I go offline Marc Boucher will keep NASA Watch up to date from Toronto, Canada until such time as I get power back. Of course Toronto is going to get hammered too at some point so we may not update for a while. Who knows. Stay safe. Keith's note: Amazingly we did not lose power and had no damage but others were not so lucky.

  • Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble

    Updated: 2012-10-29 14:28:00
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  • Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

    Updated: 2012-10-29 13:22:50
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble By Keith Cowing Posted October 29, 2012 9:22 AM View Comments ESA Wolf-Rayet star HD 50896 The cosmic cauldron has brewed up a Halloween trick in the form of a ghostly face that glows in X-rays , as seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope . The eerie entity is a bubble bursting with the fiery stellar wind of a live fast , die young' . star The bubble lies 5000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major , the greater dog' , and can be imagined to take on a dog- or

  • Lugo's GRC Reorganization Plan Continues

    Updated: 2012-10-29 00:23:44
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  • SpaceX Dragon Safe Splashdown

    Updated: 2012-10-28 23:34:18
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  • NOAA's GOES-13 Satellite Image: Hurricane Sandy Expands

    Updated: 2012-10-28 22:24:11
    NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC (9:02 a.m. EDT). The line of clouds from the Gulf of Mexico north are associated with the cold front that Sandy is merging with. Sandy's western cloud edge is already over the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. Credit: NASA GOES Project. Larger image

  • Satellites Monitor Hurricane Sandy

    Updated: 2012-10-27 15:42:03
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Satellites Monitor Hurricane Sandy By Keith Cowing Posted October 27, 2012 11:42 AM View Comments NOAA NASA GOES Satellite Imagery of Sandy Sandy weakened to a Tropical Storm and strengthened back into a hurricane early on Saturday Oct . 26, and its pressure was dropping , meaning that the storm is intensifying as it becomes an extra-tropical . storm This image was created combining NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite imagery on Oct . 27 and shows the cloud cover from Hurricane Sandy interacting with the long

  • Bride of Frankenstorm

    Updated: 2012-10-26 18:52:06
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Bride of Frankenstorm By Keith Cowing Posted October 26, 2012 2:52 PM View Comments NASA TRMM View of Hurricane Sandy NASA's TRMM satellite revealed Hurricane Sandy's heavy rainfall and the storm is expected to couple with a powerful cold front and Arctic air to bring that heavy rainfall to the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern . U.S Some forecasters are calling this combination of weather factors Frankenstorm because of the close proximity to Halloween . However , because Sandy is a woman's name , the storm could be

  • Hurricane Sandy Makes Landfall Over Cuba

    Updated: 2012-10-26 16:54:12
    Early in the morning on Oct. 25, 2012, the Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Sandy after it made landfall over Cuba and Jamaica, capturing this highly detailed infrared imagery, showing areas of deep convection around the central eye. Besides the highly detailed infrared imagery, the satellite shows visible-like imagery of the cloud tops, along with the city lights of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Image Credit: NOAA/NASA. Larger image

  • The constellation Triangulum the Double Cluster in Perseus and spiral galaxy NGC 891 Astronomy Magaz

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  • Bolden Seeks To Force Mars Goal Commitment From Obama

    Updated: 2012-10-25 17:55:10
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  • Planetary Nebula Survey

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    A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from now, when it expands to become a red giant.

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