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 In the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden delivers a "state of the agency" address at NASA’s televised fiscal year 2016 budget rollout event with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana looking on, at right. NASA’s Orion, SpaceX Dragon and Boeing CST-100 spacecraft were on display. Photo credit: NASA/Gianni Woods The Obama Administration today (Feb. 2) proposed a NASA budget allocation of $18.5 Billion for the new Fiscal Year 2016, which amounts to a half-billion dollar increase over the enacted budget for FY 2015, and keeps the key manned capsule and heavy lift rocket programs on track to launch humans to deep space in the next decade and significantly supplements the commercial crew initiative to send our astronauts to low Earth orbit and the space station later this decade. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden formally announced the rollout of NASA's FY 2016 budget request today during a "state of the agency" address at the (...)
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Post tags: ARM, astronauts, boeing CST 100, Charlie Bolden, CST-100, Deep space exploration, Dragon V2, EFT-1, EM-1, europa mission, FY 2015, FY 2016, HST, Hubble Space Telescope, humans to Mars, ISS, James Webb Space Telescope, Journey to Mars, jwst, KSC, Mars, NASA, NASA Budget, Orion crew module, Orion EFT-1, SLS, Space Launch System (SLS), SpaceX Dragon V2
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 Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is a finished work of art known to billions. After 13.8 billion years, the Universe remains an unfinished work. Planck Observatory data revealing the Milky Way’s magnetic field is morphed into a Starry Night of June 1889. (Credits: Vincent Van Gogh, ESA, Illustration – J.Schmidt, T.Reyes) From the vantage point of a window in an insane asylum, Vincent van Gogh painted one of the most noted and valued artistic works in human history. It was the summer of 1889. With his post-impressionist paint strokes, Starry Night depicts a night sky before sunrise that undulates, flows and is never settled. Scientific discoveries are revealing a Cosmos with such characteristics. Since Vincent’s time, artists and scientists have taken their respective paths to convey and understand the natural world. The latest released images taken by the European Planck Space Telescope reveals new exquisite details of our Universe that begin to touch upon the paint strokes of the great master and at the same time looks back nearly to the beginning of time. Since Van Gogh – the passage of 125 years – scientists have constructed a progressively intricate and incredible description of the Universe. (...)
Read the rest of How We’ve ‘Morphed’ From “Starry Night” to Planck’s View of the BICEP2 Field (1,408 words)
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Post tags: Art and Science, BICEP2, CMB, Cosmic Background Radiation, Einstein, esa, James Clerk Maxwell, magnetic field, Max Planck, milky way, Picasso, Planck Observatory, Planck Telescope, van Gogh
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 A new jet issues from a fissure in the rugged, dusty surface of Rosetta’s comet. Credit: ESO/Rosetta/Navcam It only makes sense. Sunlight heats a comet and causes ice to vaporize. This leads to changes in the appearance of surface features. For instance, the Sun’s heat can gnaw away at the ice on sunward-facing cliffs, hollowing them out and eventually causing them to collapse in icy rubble. Solar heating can also warm the ice that’s beneath the surface. When it becomes a vapor, pressure can build up, cracking the ice above and releasing sprays of gas and dust as jets. New images compared to old suggest the comet’s surface is changing as it approaches the Sun.(...)
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Post tags: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, comet, jets, rosetta
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 The 33 largest objects in our Solar System, ordered by mean radius, using the best images available as of January, 2015. Credit and copyright: Radu Stoicescu. Lined up like familiar faces in your high school yearbook, here are images of the 33 largest objects in the Solar System, ordered in size by mean radius. Engineer Radu Stoicescu put this great graphic together, using the highest resolution images available for each body. Nine of these objects have not yet been visited by a spacecraft. Later this year, we'll visit three of them and be able to add better images of Ceres, Pluto and Charon. It might be a while until the remaining six get closeups. "This summer, for the first time since 1989," Stoicescu noted on reddit, "we will add 3 high resolution pictures to this collection, then, for the rest of our lives, we are not going to see anything larger than 400 km in high definition for the first time. It is sad and exciting at the same time."
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Post tags: ceres, Charon, Emily Lakdawalla, Pluto, Solar System
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Almost all the planet hunting has been done from space. But there’s a new instrument installed on the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6 meter telescope called the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher which has already turned up 130 planets. Is this the future? Searching for planets from the ground?
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 Planck view of BICEP2 field. Credit: ESA/Planck Collaboration. Acknowledgment: M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, CNRS – Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-XI, Orsay, France. Last March, international researchers from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope at the South Pole claimed that they detected primordial “B-mode” polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. If confirmed, this would have been an incredibly important discovery for astrophysics, as it would constitute evidence of gravitational waves due to cosmic inflation in the first moments of the universe. Nevertheless, as often happens in science, the situation turns out to be more complicated than it initially appeared. (...)
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Post tags: BICEP2, Cosmology, Gravitational Waves, Planck, Primordial Gravitational Waves
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 NASA pays tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia Today, Feb. 1, concludes the most somber week in NASA history as we remember the fallen astronauts who gave their lives exploring space so that others could reach to the stars – venturing further than ever before! In the span of a week and many years apart three crews of American astronauts made the ultimate sacrifice and have perished since 1967. Heroes all ! – They believed that the exploration of space was worth risking their lives for the benefit of all mankind.(...)
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Post tags: 3 lost astronaut crews, Apollo 1, apollo program, Charlie Bolden, Day of Remembrance, fallen astronauts, KSC, KSCVC, NASA, slc-34, space shuttle challenger, space shuttle columbia, STS-107, STS-51L
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 Global mosaic of Mars showing the dark basaltic Syrtis Major Planus region made from Viking Orbiter images. (NSSDC) Mars is often referred to as the Red Planet. But its signature color is only skin-deep – or, I should say, dust-deep. Beneath its rusty regolith Mars has many other hues and shades as well, from pale greys like those found inside holes drilled by Curiosity to large dark regions that are the result of ancient lava flows. Now, researchers think we may have an actual piece of one of Mars’ dark plains here on Earth in the form of a meteorite that was found in the Moroccan desert in 2011. (...)
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Post tags: Black Beauty, breccia, Brown University, geology, Mars, meteorite, NWA 7034, planet
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 NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory, on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, is seen after the mobile service tower was rolled back Friday, Jan. 30 at Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Story updated At dawn this morning (Jan. 31) NASA launched an advanced Earth science satellite aimed at making measurements of our planet's surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw states from space that will revolutionize our understanding of the water, energy, and carbon cycles driving all life on Earth, aid weather forecasting and improve climate change models. NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory thundered off the pad at (...)
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Post tags: cats, CATS ISS, Delta II rocket, Earth, Earth Observation, Earth science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA, smap, soil moisture active passive, soil moisture measurements, ULA, United Launch Alliance, Vandenberg Air Force Base, water cycle
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New video of 2004 BL86 and its moon
Newly processed images of asteroid 2004 BL86 made during its brush with Earth Monday night reveal fresh details of its lumpy surface and orbiting moon. We’ve learned from both optical and radar data that Alpha, the main body, spins once every 2.6 hours. Beta (the moon) spins more slowly. The images were made by bouncing radio waves off the surface of the bodies using NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Radar “pinging” reveals information about the shape, velocity, rotation rate and surface features of close-approaching asteroids. But the resulting images can be confusing to interpret. Why? Because they’re not really photos as we know it.(...)
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Post tags: 2004 BL86, asteroid, Doppler shift, Goldstone, radar
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