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NASA data may have uncovered galaxy's youngest black hole
2013-02-14 06:32:45| CNET News.com
A rare distorted supernova explosion leads scientists to believe they may be witnessing the birth of a black hole for the first time ever. [Read more]
NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East
2013-02-12 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: An amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effects of a 2007 drought, according to a NASA study. The study, to be published Friday in Water Resources Research, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, examined data over seven years from 2003 from a pair of gravity-measuring satellites which is part of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment or GRACE. Researchers found...
NASA launches Landsat Earth observation satellite
2013-02-11 21:36:35| CNET News.com
The eighth spacecraft in a four-decade-long program to monitor the planet's surface is successfully boosted into orbit, kicking off an $855 million mission. [Read more]
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Earth-Observing Satellite Is Launched by NASA at Crucial Moment
2013-02-11 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: NASA is expected to launch today its newest Earth-observing satellite, Landsat 8, at a time when previous Landsat satellites have either stopped working or have developed serious technical problems. NASA scientists say the launch of the $855 million satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is vital to the space agencys mission of monitoring the Earth during a period of unprecedented environmental change from disappearing glaciers and sea ice, to widespread forest loss, to intensifying...
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NASA astronauts aboard ISS to host live Google+ Hangout
2013-02-08 04:34:20| CNET News.com
Curious how life changes without gravity? Three astronauts living in the International Space Station will answer those questions and more in a February 22 Google+ Hangout. [Read more]
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