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- NASA Announces Winners of 2012 George M. Low Award for Quality
- Catch that bug!
- Colliding Galaxy Pair
- Safe splashdown for Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle
- European Space Agency United Kingdom (EN) Update
- ESA’s Earth satellites are stars
- Image of the week
- NASA's Space Launch System Program Kicks Off Preliminary Design Review
- NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury
- IRIS Preps for Launch
| NASA Announces Winners of 2012 George M. Low Award for Quality Posted: 21 Jun 2013 11:29 AM PDT 06/21/2013 12:00 AM EDT Two companies that share a commitment to teamwork, technical and managerial excellence, safety, and customer service have been selected to receive NASA's premier honor for quality and performance, the George M. Low Award.  |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2013 11:27 AM PDT 21-06-2013 02:52 PM CEST  Spiders, beetles and worms might look creepy, but these creatures tell us a lot about biodiversity. Students are being challenged to count the creepy-crawlies' eyes, legs and antennae and compare them with specimens found by astronauts on an underground adventure in September.  |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2013 11:25 AM PDT 06/21/2013 12:00 AM EDT  The pair contains the disturbed, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2936, along with its elliptical companion, NGC 2937 at lower left. Once part of a flat, spiral disk, the orbits of the galaxy's stars have become scrambled due to gravitational tidal interactions with the other galaxy. This warps the galaxy's orderly spiral, and interstellar gas is strewn out into giant tails like stretched taffy. Gas and dust drawn from the heart of NGC 2936 becomes compressed during the encounter, which in turn triggers star formation. These bluish knots are visible along the distorted arms that are closest to the companion elliptical. The reddish dust, once within the galaxy, has been thrown out of the galaxy's plane and into dark veins that are silhouetted against the bright starlight from what is left of the nucleus and disk. The companion elliptical, NGC 2937, is a puffball of stars with little gas or dust present. The stars contained within the galaxy are mostly old, as evidenced by their reddish color. There are no blue stars that would be evidence of recent star formation. While the orbits of this elliptical's stars may be altered by the encounter, it's not apparent that the gravitational pull by its neighboring galaxy is having much of an effect. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team  |
| Safe splashdown for Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle Posted: 21 Jun 2013 11:20 AM PDT |
| European Space Agency United Kingdom (EN) Update Posted: 21 Jun 2013 11:16 AM PDT |
| ESA’s Earth satellites are stars Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:15 AM PDT |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2013 04:14 AM PDT |
| NASA's Space Launch System Program Kicks Off Preliminary Design Review Posted: 20 Jun 2013 03:17 PM PDT 06/19/2013 12:00 AM EDT   |
| NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury Posted: 20 Jun 2013 03:16 PM PDT 06/20/2013 12:00 AM EDT At a meeting in Rome Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Enrico Saggese signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation on the European Space Agency- (ESA) led BepiColombo mission to Mercury, strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation between NASA and ASI in planetary exploration.  |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2013 03:12 PM PDT 06/20/2013 12:00 AM EDT  The fully integrated spacecraft and science instrument for NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is seen in a clean room at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Sunnyvale, Calif. facility. The solar arrays are deployed in the configuration they will assume when in orbit. IRIS is scheduled to launch on June 26, 2013. Understanding the interface between the photosphere and corona remains a fundamental challenge in solar and heliospheric science. The IRIS mission opens a window of discovery into this crucial region by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromosphere and transition region into the corona using spectrometry and imaging. IRIS is designed to provide significant new information to increase our understanding of energy transport into the corona and solar wind and provide an archetype for all stellar atmospheres. The unique instrument capabilities, coupled with state of the art 3-D modeling, will fill a large gap in our knowledge of this dynamic region of the solar atmosphere. The mission will extend the scientific output of existing heliophysics spacecraft that follow the effects of energy release processes from the sun to Earth. Image Credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin  |
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