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NASA | StarTrackers Light the Way
The concept of a Star Tracker can be traced back to the early sailors who used to navigate the open seas using star field patterns. Star Trackers act as the eyes of the satellite pointing it in the right direction. This is important to...
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Hubble's 31st Anniversary: Giant Star on the Edge of Destruction
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy,...
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Getting SET - The Mission to Protect Satellites from Radiation
Summer 2019, NASA's Space Environment Testbeds, or SET, will launch on its mission to study how to better protect satellites in space. SET studies the very nature of space itself -- which isn't completely empty, but brimming with...
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Study shows moisturizers with SPF not as effective as sunscreen
A study conducted by the British Association of Dermatologists shows that using a moisturizer with sun protection factor isn't as effective as applying sunscreen.
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NASA/NOAA | A Weather Satellite Watches The Sun
GOES is a series of weather satellites providing continuous delivery of real time data helping meteorologists predict weather on Earth with great accuracy. The GOES satellites also look at the Sun and send critical data to space weather...
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NASA | We Did All That in 50 Years!
Humans have always looked up at the sky. They used astronomy to track time, orient their cities, decide when to plant their crops, and even based their religious practices on their celestial world. But there was much more to learn.
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Exploring Our Solar System with Dr. Amy Simon
Dr. Amy Simon has always been fascinated with space. From a young age she dreamed of lifting off in the space shuttle, just like her hero, astronaut Sally Ride. Over the years her interest in space remained, and she eventually found...
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Why Does NASA Observe the Sun in Different Colors?
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, spacecraft was launched on Feb. 11, 2010, and began collecting science data a few months later. With two imaging instruments – the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly and the Helioseismic and Magnetic...
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NASA | Sentinels of the Heliosphere
What NASA calls its 'Heliophysics Observatory' is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories...
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NASA | X Marks the Spot: SDO Sees Reconnection
Two NASA spacecraft have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all explosions on the sun: magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection happens when magnetic field lines come together, break...
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Launching Rockets Through the Leak in Earth's Atmosphere
NASA scientists are seeking a strange breed of northern lights in the Arctic. When these auroras shine, Earth’s atmosphere leaks into space. In the tiny Arctic town of Ny-Ålesund, where polar bears outnumber people, winter means three...
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Five Things about Radiation Donuts
Have more questions about Earth’s radiation donuts? Ask our scientists in the comments below! Join Van Allen Probes scientists Feb. 12 from 1-3 p.m. EST10 a.m. - 12 p.m. PST to get your questions answered! Earth is surrounded by giant,...
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1966 rocket booster finally breaks free from Earth
Earth’s so-called “second moon” will make one final pass this week before floating out into space forever.
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Weather Things: Weather Cycles
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
Intelligence Squared
Reuel Marc Gerecht - How we should deal with Iran
Reuel Marc Gerecht is speaking at the IQ2 debate "Iran is a paper tiger" on February 24th 2011. Reuel Marc Gerecht - IQ2 highlights
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NASA | Sun for Kids
We look at the sun rising every day. It's bright, it's big and it warms us up. Our sun happens to be the brightest object in our universe and it has captured our curiosity and imaginations throughout history. Our sun is very dynamic and...
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NASA | IBEX | What are the Boundaries of our Solar System?
IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our Solar System called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out of the sun inflates a bubble that we call the...
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Magnetic Bubbles on the Moon Reveal Evidence of "Sunburn"
Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation -- and the Moon has the scars to prove it. Research using data from NASA's ARTEMIS mission — short for Acceleration, Reconnection,...
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5 New Discoveries from NASA's Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has returned unprecedented data from near the Sun, culminating in new discoveries published on Dec. 4, 2019, in the journal Nature. Among the findings are new understandings of how the Sun's constant...
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Weather Things: Storms
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
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NASA’s New Views of Venus’ Surface From Space
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its...
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NASA | Top Solar Discoveries: #5
A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. An introduction plus Number 5 in...
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NASA | STEREO Solar Conjunction
Since February 2011, the two spacecraft of NASA's the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory or STEREO mission have been providing scientists with unprecedented views of the far side of the sun. The spacecraft travel at different...
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NASA | From Stonehenge to STEREO
Humans have always wanted to learn about the Sun, but our understanding of our favorite star has changed through the centuries. In prepartion for Sun360, when the STEREO spacecrafts will provide the first uninterrupted view of the Sun,...