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  • Small Planets Don't Need Stars With Heavy Metal Content To Form

    06.13.12 - New ground-based observations, combined with data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope, shows small planets form around stars with a wide range of heavy element content.

  • NASA'S Fermi Detects The Highest-Energy Light From A Solar Flare

    06.11.12 - WASHINGTON -- During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role as a solar observatory, a powerful new tool for understanding solar outbursts during the sun's maximum period of activity.

  • Black Hole Growth Found To Be Out Of Sync

    06.11.12 - New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.

  • NASA'S NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off

    06.13.12 - WASHINGTON -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at noon EDT (9 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, beginning its mission to unveil secrets of buried black holes and other exotic objects.

  • NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR Launch

    06.06.12 - NASA will host a news teleconference 3 p.m. EDT June 11 to discuss the upcoming launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft which is scheduled for no earlier than 11:30 a.m. EDT June 13.

  • NASA Announces Media Accreditation For August Mars Rover Landing

    06.05.12 - Media representatives planning to cover the Aug. 5, 2012, landing of the most advanced rover ever sent to Mars can apply online for access to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

  • NASA'S Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously

    06.07.12 - The faint, lumpy glow from the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

  • Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy

    06.04.12 - Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour.

  • Students Nationwide To Exhibit NASA Spacecraft Lunar Images

    05.31.12 - Media representatives are invited to see middle-school students and their teachers demonstrate science lessons and highlight selected images provided by twin NASA spacecraft studying the moon from crust to core.

  • NASA'S Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision

    05.31.12 - NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.