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    Home SpaceRef SpaceRef Business OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy More Will Follow By Keith Cowing on January 30, 2013 10:13 PM View Comments Columbia : Thinking Back Looking Ahead Excerpt from New Moon Rising by Frank Sietzen , Jr . and Keith Cowing At the end of the event , Rona Ramon , Ilan's widow , spoke last . Steeling her emotions with grace and clarity , she spoke elegantly and briefly . She thanked all for coming . And then

  • Satellite Image Shows Eastern U.S. Severe Weather System

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  • NASA Is Still Trying To Figure Out This Whole IT Security Thing

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  • Stealth Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group Telecons

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  • Painting The Sky With Lithium

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  • Rocket Launch Colors the Sky Red With Lithium

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  • Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is Worried About NASA's Budget

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  • Is NASA SMD Following the Decadal Survey?

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  • When a planet behaves like a comet Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA CIO Cureton Is Leaving NASA

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  • Andromeda's Colorful Rings

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    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Andromeda's Colorful Rings By Keith Cowing Posted January 29, 2013 2:35 PM View Comments ESA Andromeda The ring-like swirls of dust filling the Andromeda galaxy stand out colorfully in this new image from the Herschel Space Observatory , a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation . The glow seen here comes from the longer-wavelength , or far , end of the infrared spectrum , giving astronomers the chance to identify the very coldest dust in our galactic neighbor . These light

  • When a Planet Behaves Like a Comet

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    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology When a Planet Behaves Like a Comet By Keith Cowing Posted January 29, 2013 2:30 PM View Comments ESA Venus' Ionosphere ESA's Venus Express has made unique observations of Venus during a period of reduced solar wind pressure , discovering that the planet's ionosphere balloons out like a comet's tail on its . nightside The ionosphere is a region of weakly electrically charged gas high above the main body of a planet's atmosphere . Its shape and density are partly controlled by the internal magnetic

  • Relaunching Space Commerce

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  • Mars rover Curiosity uses arm camera at night Astronomy Magazine

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  • Stellarvue†s 6.3-inch refractor field-tested Astronomy Magazine

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  • Stellar Effervescence on Display

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    Home About SpaceRef SpaceRef Business SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia SpaceRef Canada NASA Watch Get Our Daily Newsletter Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astrobiology Stellar Effervescence on Display By Keith Cowing Posted January 28, 2013 8:19 PM View Comments NASA superbubble DEM L50 This composite image shows the superbubble DEM L50 a.k.a . N186 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years from . Earth Superbubbles are found in regions where massive stars have formed in the last few million years . The massive stars produce intense radiation , expel matter at high speeds , and race through their evolution to explode as supernovas . The winds

  • Iran Sends a Monkey into Space

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  • Challenger +27

    Updated: 2013-01-28 18:18:15
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    Iran Sends a Monkey into Space (Video), PressTV "According to Iran state media, Iran launched a suborbital rocket last week with a monkey onboard and recovered the capsule a short time later with the monkey still alive. The space capsule was code-named Pishgam (Pioneer)."

  • Once Again NASA's Space Station "Team" Doesn't Talk Among Itself

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  • NSF-funded Team Samples Antarctic Lake Beneath the Ice Sheet

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  • NASA SMD Uses a Bullhorn to Say 'No Thanks'

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  • Spend a day skywatching in Tucson Astronomy Magazine

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  • Lamar Smith Takes Over House Science Leadership

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  • SLS Performance Specs Fall Under ITAR

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