In the News
- Noctilucent Clouds Get an Early Start
- 06.07.13 – The early start of the 2013 season appears to be caused by a change in atmospheric “teleconnections,” connections between different layers of the…
- NASA's IRIS Mission to Launch in June
- 06.04.13 – Understanding how energy travels through the lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere is the goal of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph scheduled to launch on June 26, 2013.
- IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge
- 05.29.13 – In late June 2013, NASA will launch a new set of eyes to offer the most detailed look ever of the sun's lower atmosphere, known as the interface region.
- 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.
- IRIS Q&A with Robert Carvalho
- 04.30.13 – Robert Carvalho is one of two flight controllers for the IRIS mission, and is helping design, develop and integrate flight controller software tools.
- NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON
- 03.29.13 – The Swift satellite observed a comet that may become one of the most dazzling seen in decades when it rounds the sun later this year.
- Van Allen Probes Discover a Surprise Circling Earth
- 02.28.13 – Shortly after the Van Allen Probes launched to study the radiation belts around Earth, they saw something no one had ever seen before: a new configuration, showing an extra, third belt extending out into space.
- NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin
- 02.27.13 – Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun.
- NASA Hosts Media Telecon About Black Hole Studies
- 02.25.13 – NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), Wednesday, Feb. 27, to announce black hole observations from its newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.
- WISE Feels the Heat from Orion's Sword
- 02.05.13 – The tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion's sword is showcased in a new, expansive view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
- Explaining the Ribbon in Space Discovered by IBEX
- 02.05.13 – Using NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), scientists have devised the best model yet for the appearance of a vast ribbon of neutral atoms that curls through the boundaries of Earth's solar system.
- IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated
- 01.18.13 – NASA's next Small Explorer mission, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which will study the little-understood lower levels of the…
