Monday 8 July 2013

NASA Hosts July 10 Online Media Briefing on Solar System Finding

NASA will host its first Google+ Hangout news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10, on a new finding from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission.

via NASA Breaking News

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/july/nasa-hosts-july-10-online-media-briefing-on-solar-system-finding

Astronaut Mike Hopkins, Next Station Crew Meet Media

The next International Space Station crew, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy, will be available for news media interviews and filming opportunities Wednesday, July 17, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

via NASA Breaking News

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/july/astronaut-mike-hopkins-next-station-crew-meet-media

Matter-antimatter asymmetry: Using the sun to illuminate a basic mystery of matter

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Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to researchers. The finding sheds light on the puzzling strong asymmetry between matter and antimatter by gathering data on a very large scale using the Sun as a laboratory.

via Science Daily

Center of The Swan Nebula Skateboards

Cosmic dust belts without dust

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Planets and asteroids, red giants and brown dwarfs – there are all kinds of objects in our Universe. Debris disks are among them. These are belts consisting of countless dust particles and planetesimals, circling around one central star. Debris disks are an important piece in the puzzle to be able to better understand the variety of planetary systems.

via Science Daily

Meet MIRI