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News Archive
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Earth Science Week 2008: Videos
View videos produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as part of Earth Science Week 2008.
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James Webb Telescope Model Will Fly to Germany
The model of the James Webb Space Telescope has been making a lot of "orbits" around the world, and is now slated to "land" at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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Apollo Heat Shield Uncrated After 35 Years, Will Help with New Crew Vehicle
NASA scientists have uncrated heat shields used on the Apollo missions to aid development of the upcoming Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.
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Top Winners Announced for Discovery 3M Challenge
Melissa Rey from Chesterfield, Mo., was named "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
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Rising Arctic Storm Activity Sways Sea Ice, Climate
NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century directly accelerated the rate of arctic sea ice drift which is a harbinger of climate change.
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Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age.
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Discovery 3M Challenge to Conclude Oct. 6 at Goddard
The final day of competition for The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist concludes the evening of Oct. 6, 2008.
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NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere
Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision and found that it is not a perfect sphere.
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Infrared Echoes Give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova Flashback
Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope say that hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments.
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A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears
Astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- and then vanished.
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NASA Commemoration Includes Discovery Challenge at Goddard
Ten middle school student finalists from across the country will vie for the title of "America's Top Young Scientist" at Goddard in early October.
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NASA Data Show Arctic Saw Fastest August Sea Ice Retreat on Record
NASA data are showing that for a four-week period in August 2008, sea ice melted faster during that period than ever before.
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Scientists Detect Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Across Billions of Light Years
Scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters.
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NASA Satellite Sees the Oldest-Ever Gamma-ray Burst from the Edge of the Visible Universe
NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast arose from a star 12.8 billion light-years away.
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NASA Selects Contractor for Landsat Mission Operations Element
NASA selected The Hammers Company, Greenbelt, Md., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE).
Media Resources
Return to Hubble
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Hubble Servicing Mission 4
Read about the upcoming Servicing Mission 4, scheduled to be the last time astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Goddard View showcases people and achievements at Goddard that contribute to transforming human understanding of Earth and space through innovation, exploration and discovery.