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Monday, June 19, 2017

NASA's Kepler Reveals Potential New Worlds

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June 19, 2017: Launched in 2009, the Kepler space telescope is our first mission capable of identifying Earth-size planets around other st...

NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates

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June 19, 2017: NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candi...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Highlights from Three-In-One Nebula Image | ESO

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This compilation shows a few of the many highlights in an enormous three gigapixel image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) that incl...

A Nebula Three-In-One | ESO

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June 14 , 2017: Two of the sky’s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbor in this enormous new three gigapix...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Hubble's Variable Nebula: NGC 2261

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Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out s...

Elephant's Trunk Nebula

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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located ...

Celebrating Flag Day | NASA

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June 14, 2017: NASA astronaut Jack Fischer took this photograph of an American flag in one of the windows of the International Space Stat...

Russian Resupply Ship Launches to International Space Station

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June 14, 2017: The unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 67 cargo ship launched atop a Soyuz booster June 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Ka...

Russian Resupply Ship Readied for International Space Station Launch

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June 14, 2017: The unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 67 cargo ship launched atop a Soyuz booster June 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kaza...

Tim Peake: Spacewalk training at NASA | European Space Agency

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British ESA astronaut Tim Peake on ‘Extravehicular activity’, or EVA, training with German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer at the Neutral ...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Jupiter | NASA Juno Mission

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of So...

Turquoise Swirls in the Black Sea | NASA Earth

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Image from orbit of Black Sea with phytoplankton swirls June 12, 2017: Most summers, jewel-toned hues appear in the Black Sea. The turquoi...
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

The Paris Agreement: COP21 | International Space Station

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ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of France: "I took the Paris Agreement to the International Space Station: Seen from space, climate ch...

Sea Ice as a Way of Life: Northern Canada | NASA Aqua Satellite

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June 6, 2017: The rhythms of sea ice play a central role in many communities along Hudson Bay, the shallow inland sea in northern Can...

Contributors to sea-level rise | European Space Agency

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June 5, 2017: The physical processes causing global sea-level rise are highlighted in this animation. The main causes are thermal expansi...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

Greenland Ice Loss 2002-2016 | NASA

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The mass of the Greenland ice sheet has rapidly declined in the last several years due to surface melting and iceberg calving. Research ...