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Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS): NASA launches satellite to study Sun’s atmosphere

July 2, 2013

The U.S. space agency NASA launched a satellite to uncover the secrets of the Sun’s lower atmosphere. NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) was launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket off the California coast. About IRIS mission: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph ..

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NASA’s Cassini to photograph Earth from Saturn

June 21, 2013

On July 19, 2013 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will be taking the first-ever natural-colour image of the Earth as seen from the Saturn system, from 1.44 billion kilometres away. The US space agency is inviting the public to help recognize the historic interplanetary ..

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Fact Box: Magnetar; NASA's observatory finds Magnetar "SGR 0418"

May 28, 2013

Scientists at NASA have discovered exotic neutron star called Magnetar named SGR 0418 by using Chandra X-ray Observatory and other satellites. What are Magnetars? Magnetar are the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation. It is a type of ..

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Kepler-62e, 62f and 69c: Earth-like planets that could host life discovered by NASA

April 25, 2013

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems. Kepler-62 system Kepler-69 system The Kepler-62 system has five planets: 62b 62c 62d 62e 62f Kepler-62 system has five planets: 62b, 62c, 62d, 62e and 62f orbiting a Sun-like star called ..

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India, USA agree to cooperate on future missions to the Moon and Mars

March 29, 2013

Subsequent to successful collaboration in Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission, India and the US have agreed to cooperate on future missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA and ISRO collaborated successfully for the Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission in 2008. Thus, building upon the partnership further, both NASA and ..

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Curiosity finds key ingredients required to support life on mars

March 15, 2013

NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is exploring Mars, has identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients required to support life – in the powder it drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ..

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“W49B”: The Youngest black hole in our galaxy discovered by the Scientists

February 26, 2013

Recent  data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted the youngest black hole yet in the Milky Way galaxy named “W49B”. W49B is just 1000-years-old and only 26,000 light-years away from Earth.

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Fact Box “Europa”

February 22, 2013

About Europa: Moon of Jupiter 6th closest moon of Jupiter Smallest of Jupiter’s 4 Galilean satellites Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei Slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon Composition: – Primarily made of silicate rock – Likely has an iron core ..

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NASA discovers 'Youngest Black Hole' in Milky Way:

February 21, 2013

NASA has claimed to have discovered the youngest black hole, named W49B, in Earth’s galaxy or the Milky Way. The black, located within a supernova remnant, was formed by a rare supernova explosion of a massive star. The agency’sChandra X-ray ..

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NASA launches TDRS satellite

February 7, 2013

NASA launched an unmanned Atlas V rocket carrying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). It is a communication satellite to stay in touch with its space station astronauts and relay more Hubble telescope images. This is the 11th TDRS ..

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