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First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 5 mins ago - 7 reports

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula's True Shape

A Hubble Heritage ReleaseMay 23, 2013: The distinctive shape of the Ring Nebula, the glowing shroud around a dying Sun-like star, makes it a popular celestial object that appears in many astronomy books. New observations of the Ring Nebula by NASA's Hubble ... [Published Hubble Site - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Ring Nebula

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 14 mins ago - 6 reports

NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission

Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. ... [Published KTVU - 14 mins ago]

Entities: Planetoid, NASA, Charles Bolden

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 5 reports

Next week features convergence of planets

SAN ANGELO, Texas — A high-resolution graphic depicting the convergence of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will be available Saturady through Tuesday on StarDate Magazine’s website at stardate.org/mediacenter.The three planets will be closest together Saturday ... [Published San Angelo Standard-Times - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Jupiter, Mercury

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

NASA

Live: NASA chat with astronaut Chris Hadfield

Three astronauts who recently returned to Earth after living aboard the International Space Station will answer questions from the public in a live Google Hangout on Thursday.The online chat starts at noon PDT, and you can watch it live right here.(The ... [Published Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Chris Hadfield, Cosmonaut, NASA

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 5 reports

Pegaso

Satellite collides with Russian space junk

A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, Quito's space agency said yesterday. Ecuador's space agency EXA warned on Wednesday that a space fender-bender was likely between its "Pegaso" satellite and the remains ... [Published Shanghai Daily - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Pegaso, Jiuquan (China), Madagascar, Cosmonaut, Ecuador

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

Photos: NASA captures images of Alaska's Pavlof volcano

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed these striking views of Pavlof Volcano on May 18, 2013. The oblique perspective from the ISS reveals the three dimensional structure of the ash plume, which is often obscured by the ... [Published Anchorage Daily News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Volcano, NASA, Plume, International Space Station

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 16 reports

Nutrients

NASA Attempting To Make Space Pizza

Photo by thepizzareviewWhen a new technology is introduced, it takes awhile for it to reach its full potential. Something like chewing gum, created roughly 5,000 years ago, didn't really find its true way until the last few decades. The hammer, the first ... [Published KCET - 1 hour ago]

Entities: NASA, 3D Printing, Shelf Life, Nutrients, Cosmonaut

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 7 reports

Strawberry Cocktail Nebula Revealed Like Never Before In New Photograph

TagsNebula, astronomy, Space, Star formation, IC 2944A "strawberry cocktail" nebula called IC 2944 has just been photographed like never before to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Very Large Telescope (VLT).This star-forming region 6,500 light years ... [Published ITechPost - 4 hours ago]

Entities: European Southern Observatory, Bart Bok, Radiation, Star Formation

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 6 reports

Ecuador satellite hit

A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, Quito's space agency said Thursday.Ecuador's space agency EXA had warned on Wednesday that a space ... [Published Global Times - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Ecuador, Pegaso

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 3 hours ago - 24 reports

Space Telescopes Capture Rare Birth of Mega-Galaxy

WASHINGTON, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – US researchers have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study published this week ... [Published RIA Novosti - 3 hours ago]

Entities: NASA, European Space Agency, University of California Irvine, Hubble Space Telescope

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 7 reports

NASA's SDO Observes Another Mid-level Solar Flare

, from the ESA%2FNASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory shows the conjunction of two coronal mass ejections streaming away from the sun. This image is what's known as a coronagraph, in which the light of the sun is blocked in order to make its dimmer atmosphere, ... [Published ScienceNewsline - 7 hours ago]

Entities: SDO, Solar Flare, NASA

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 22 reports

The future of food: NASA's printed pizza

Unlike the meat printing company, NASA has a semi-legitimate need for the pizza. With the estimated travel time to Mars in the decade-plus rangeâshould they figure out how the technical aspects of getting thereâNASA runs into an issue of food. The food ... [Published ECN - May 22 2013]

Entities: NASA, Advantage Business Group, Shoprite Holdings Ltd

Quotes

"Ecuador still has its satellite, the people still have Pegasus" he wrote, saying it could take upup to 48 hours to assess damage

Ecuador's only satellite may have been damaged in space collision [Published UPI - 15 mins ago]

"We're on track for significant commercial operations here at the Cape" Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana said last week at a National Space Club Florida meeting in Cape Canaveral

NASA puts shuttle launch pad in Florida up for lease [Published Reuters UK - 21 mins ago]

In a statement on the deal, Google said, "We hope it helps researchers construct more efficient, effective models for everything from speech recognition, to Web search, to protein folding." From improving its search functionality to literally investigating (and perhaps replicating) the way that cells function, Google's approach to the quantum...

Google and NASA Make Quantum Leap With New Computer [Published Nasdaq - 30 mins ago]

Nader said "Pegaso might be damaged or be in an uncontrolled rotation, but since it is still in orbit we hope its mission can continue."

Ecuador confirms Russian rocket remains hit its satellite [Published Xinhua News Agency - 43 mins ago]

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Blogs

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Audio/Video

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Russian animal astronauts return to Earth [Published Reuters Video: Top News - May 22 2013]
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