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Bright Fireball Kicks Off Perseid Meteor Shower
A meteor entered the atmosphere 70 miles above the town of Paint Rock, Ala., on August 3, leaving a flare that was six times brighter than the planet Venus.
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A Galactic Spectacle
Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer have pooled resources to view a beautiful collision within the Antennae Galaxies.
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NASA Lightning Research Happens in a Flash
For 40 riveting days this summer, NASA lightning researchers will peer inside storms in a way they never have before.
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Taking a Shot at the Sun
This July, for a thrilling eight minutes, NASA researchers will get a peek at one of the sun's most mysterious regions.
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James Webb Space Telescope Completes Cryogenic Mirror Test
Recently, six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments completed a series of cryogenic tests at the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Center.
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Black Hole Gets Jerked Around -- Twice
This Chandra image shows the effects of a giant black hole that has been flipped around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction.
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Black Hole Blows Big Bubble
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has viewed a powerful microquasar on the outskirts of NGC 7793, a nearby galaxy that is 12.7 million light years away.
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DM-2 Motor Testing
Preparations are under way for the testing of NASA's next-generation, five-segment solid rocket development motor, or DM-2, in September.
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NASA Tests Engine Technology to Assist With Future Space Vehicle Landings
NASA, in partnership with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR), recently completed the fourth and final series of tests on the Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE).
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CID-42: A Black Hole 'Slingshot'
Evidence for a recoiling black hole has been found using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and several ground-based telescopes.
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NASA Avionics Testing
An avionics system is the "brains" for a launch vehicle.
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CH Cyg: Codependent Stellar Living
A new Chandra image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth.
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NASA's FASTSAT Satellite Readies for Shipment to Alaska
NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit.
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Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina Rocketeers Take Top Trophies in University Division of 2009-10 NASA Student Launch Projects
NASA has named the top university winners in the 2009-10 NASA Student Launch Projects, its annual rocketry challenge.
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Small-Scale Rocket Motor Tests New Materials
NASA engineers successfully tested a sub-scale solid rocket motor on May 27.
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Stellar Shrapnel Shows Explosion Aftermath
Observations from Chandra have captured a stellar "bullet" traveling at five million miles an hour away from a supernova explosion.
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Hinode Discovers the Origin of White Light Flare
A joint Japan-United States research team has identified the origin of the white light emission in solar flares.
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Using 'Polka Dots' for Precision
NASA is developing a fuel tank dome for its next-generation launch vehicles.
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Using Satellites to Check for...Ticks?
Using state-of-the-art NASA satellite information, students are busy checking state forests for ticks that may carry Lyme disease.
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The Sculptor Wall
Observations from Chandra and XMM-Newton have detected a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about 400 million light years from Earth.