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NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe

05.20.13 - Scientists seek to gain answers to questions about the formation of stars and galaxies with the launch of the CIBER sounding rocket on June 4 from Wallops.
Auroras Visible in Continental U.S.

05.20.13 - Coronal mass ejections that accompanied X-class flares early last week, arrived at Earth over the weekend and sparked a geomagnetic storm and aurora.
NASA Simulates 'Pulsar-On-A-Table' for Testing

05.20.2013 - A NASA team built a first-of-a-kind testbed to simulate the distinctive signature of pulsars - which radiate in regular bursts anywhere from seconds to milliseconds.
IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge

05.20.13 - NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission to observe a mysterious region of the solar atmosphere that may be crucial to understanding what powers space weather.
NASA’s STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun

05.17.13 - On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space.

NASA Data Pinpoints Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise

05.16.13 - 99% of all of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003 to 2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed just as much to sea level rise as the two ice sheets combined.
Goddard Invites Children, Families to Learn About Contamination, Coatings of Engineering

05.09.13 - This May edition of Sunday Experiment will uncover the world of thermal coating and contamination engineering.
NASA Extends Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract

05.07.13 - NASA has extended its interim contract with MEI Technologies Inc. of Houston for electrical systems engineering services.
NASA Announces Winners of Student 'Reel Science Communications' Video Contest

05.06.13 - NASA has selected the winners of NASA's educational "REEL Science Communications" video contest.
NASA Partners With Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab

05.03.13 - Goddard has entered into a Space Act Agreement with Utah State University to develop a high-resolution optical encoder.