NASA Administrator Tours Earth Missions Under Construction in California

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 13, to see progress on two Earth-observing missions currently undergoing preparation for launch in 2014.

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Physicists discover atomic clock can simulate quantum magnetism

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Researchers at JILA have for the first time used an atomic clock as a quantum simulator, mimicking the behavior of a different, more complex quantum system.



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Hubble finds source of Magellanic Stream: Astronomers explore origin of gas ribbon wrapped around our galaxy

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Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy. New Hubble observations reveal that most of this stream was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud some 2 billion years ago, with a smaller portion originating more recently from its larger neighbor.

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The Challenge is On: NASA-WPI 2014 Robot Prize Competition Registration Open

In pursuit of new technological solutions for America's space program and our nation's future, NASA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass., have opened registration for the $1.5 million 2014 Sample Return Robot prize competition.

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http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/august/the-challenge-is-on-nasa-wpi-2014-robot-prize-competition-registration-open

Hubble finds source of Magellanic Stream

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(Phys.org) —Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have solved the 40-year-old mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around the Milky Way. New Hubble observations reveal that most of this stream was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud some two billion years ago, with a smaller portion originating more recently from its larger neighbour.



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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Finds Source of Magellanic Stream

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.

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Hubble Finds Source of Magellanic Stream

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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.

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http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/27/

Molecules form 2-D patterns never before observed: Experiments produce elusive 5-vertex tilings

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Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Johannes Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago – and that more recently have caught the eye of both artists and crystallographers – can now be seen in the laboratory. They first took shape on a surface more perfectly two-dimensional than any sheet of writing paper, a single layer of atoms and molecules atop an atomically smooth substrate. Physicists coaxed these so-called Kepler tilings "onto the page" through guided self-assembly of nanostructures.



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Great Clouds of the Corina Nebula Poster

Great Clouds of the Corina Nebula Poster

A detailed closeup of the region of the Corina Nebula known as 'the Great Clouds'. Bringing to mind the vibrant colors and dreamlike quality of Maxfield Parrish's work, one can get lost in the heavens captured here by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Subaru Telescope’s imaging discovery of a 'second Jupiter' shows the power and significance of the SEEDS project

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Astronomers have recently discovered and captured an image of the least massive planet ever imaged so far -- a so-called "second Jupiter". This discovery marks an important step toward the direct imaging of much fainter Earth-like planets in the future and may lead to new models of planet formation.

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Star Birth in Constellation Cygnus, The Swan Mugs

Star Birth in Constellation Cygnus, The Swan Mugs

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous star forming region in Constellation Cygnus (The Swan). This Hubble image shows a dust-rich, interstellar gas cloud with a new-born star in the centre of the hour-glass shape. The glowing blue of the hydrogen in this nebula is due to the jets being emitted from the forming star as dust falls into into it and this causes the heating and turbulence of the hydrogen. The star, known as S106 IR, is reaching the end of its birth and will soon enter the much quieter period of adulthood known as the main stage.

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Image credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA

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