Astronomers using data from three of NASA’s space telescopes — Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler — have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapor on a gaseous planet outside our solar system. The planet is about the size of Neptune, making it the smallest planet from which molecules of any kind have been detected.
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Statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM).
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Tropical Depression Fung-Wong skirted the coast of mainland China and is moving through the East China Sea.
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Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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The image is a mosaic of “postage stamp” regions taken during the engineering test run this spring by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft operating in the two-wheel K2 mode. Highlighted in the image are two open clusters Messier 35 (top) and NGC 2158 (bottom).
The shape of the image is due to the fact that K2, like Kepler, only brings back “postage stamp” regions surrounding targets of interest. For single stars, the postage stamps are small, but for clusters, it is often the case that large super apertures are used and placed together to collect light in a large grouping of pixels, often of odd rectangular shapes, made to fit the sizes of the clusters.
Learn more about the K2 mission in the Kepler mission manager update.
Credit: NASA Ames/T Barclay/W Stenzel
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The K2 mission has successfully completed its first official science observations and the data are on the ground! Campaign 2 is underway.
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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, a flight engineer with Expedition 40 currently aboard the International Space Station, and Expedition 26/27 NASA astronaut Cady Coleman will speak with former President Bill Clinton during the closing session of the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York at 4:10 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 24.
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Alan Lindenmoyer, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Program at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, was presented a prestigious medal for government service at a gala in Washington Monday.
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Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Tropical Storm Kalmaegi made landfall on September 17 near the border of Vietnam and China and moved inland.
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