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'First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument

On NASA's Suomi NPP satellite, the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth, helping to assure availability of measurements of the energy leaving the Earth-atmosphere system.

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NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon's Far Side

A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has returned its first view of the far side of the moon. GRAIL consists of two spacecraft, recently named Ebb and Flow, each equipped with a MoonKam.

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Composite image of supernova remnant G350.1+0.3

Remnant of an Explosion With a Powerful Kick?

Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of their explosions. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has studied many of these supernova remnants sprinkled across the Galaxy.

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SpaceX Test Fires Engine Prototype for Astronaut Escape System

One of NASA's industry partners, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), completed a full-duration, full-thrust firing of its new SuperDraco engine prototype at the company’s Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas.

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IBEX: Glimpses of the Interstellar Material Beyond Our Solar System

The spacecraft IBEX methodically measures samples of the mysterious neighborhood beyond our home. IBEX scans the entire sky once a year, and every February, its instruments point in the correct direction to intercept incoming neutral atoms.

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NASA Releases First Multi-Player Facebook Game

Who was the first American to walk in space? Who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket? If you know the answers to these questions, or are just curious to find out, you're ready to play Space Race Blastoff, NASA's first online game.

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Sun Unleashes An X1.8 Class Flare On Jan. 27, 2012

Initial movies from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) look as though there was an eruption and coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with the event, and NOAA’s GOES satellite also detected a solar energetic particle (SEP) event.

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NASA Images

Dione on a Diagonal

Saturn and Dione appear askew in this Cassini spacecraft view, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if they were threaded along on the thin...