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Created with the help of supercomputers, this still from a simulation shows the formation of a massive galaxy during the first 2 billion years of the universe. Hydrogen gas is gray, young stars appear blue, and older stars are red. The simulation reveals that ... More »
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with members of the asteroid initiative team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thursday. Later, Bolden and some team members spoke with media inside a JPL lab where advanced technology propulsion systems are built and te... More »
On Monday, May 13, 2013, Grammy-winner Koji Nakamura brought his skills as a Taiko drummer to the Pasadena Waldorf School (PWS) campus for a special performance with seven students from the Eighth Grade class. Mr. Nakamura is the leader of the Los Angeles base... More »
The three NASA-built instruments and associated ground support equipment for the U.S./European Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite are removed from a Cargo Lux 747-800 transport plane in Luxembourg on May 21, 2013, following a transatlantic flight. The instrumen... More »
Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). The galaxies, collectively called HXMM01, are churning out the ... More »
Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn’s moon Titan. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the many seas and lakes that bejewel T... More »
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Thursday will be at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena to see a prototype ion thruster being tested for NASA’s mission to capture and relocate an asteroid, it was announced today. JPL and NASA’s Glenn Resear... More »
In 1959, Dr. Richard Feynman, the famous CalTech theoretical physicist, issued a challenge at a meeting of the American Physical Society that effectively ushered in the field of nanotechnology. “I want to offer a prize of $1,000 to the first guy who makes an... More »
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity drilled into this rock target, “Cumberland,” during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (May 19, 2013) and collected a powdered sample of material from the rock’s interior. Analysis of the Cumberland sample us... More »
The pale rock in the upper center of this image, about the size of a human forearm, includes a target called “Esperance,” which was inspected by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Data from the rover’s alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) indicate ... More »
On the 3,309th Martian day, or sol, of its mission on Mars (May 15, 2013) NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drove 263 feet (80 meters) southward along the western rim of Endeavour Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cerna... More »
How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one. This image was captured in infrared light by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telesco... More »
