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May night sky happenings
May is a great month to see a lovely collection of constellations with your own eyes and view objects studied by NASA spacecraft and telecopes. Use the moon to help locate the constellations this month. - On May 13 the crescent moon is between the...
Tags: NASA, Science and Technology
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NASA gets view of Saturn's extreme "hurricane"
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is...
Tags: Science, Science and Technology, Hurricanes, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Successful launch from Wallops Island opens new gateway to space
ReporterA successful launch from a NASA spaceport in eastern Virginia is a pivotal moment for Virginia and the commercial space industry. The unmanned rocket blasted off from Wallops Island Sunday afternoon. With the test flight, Orbital Sciences Corporation...Tags: Wallops Island (Accomack, Virginia), NASA, Science and Technology, Skype, Orbital Sciences Corporation
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Antares rocket launch visible this afternoon
Officials rescheduled the launch of the Antares rocket until Sunday at 5 p.m. The rocket will eventually help carry cargo to the International Space Station. Orbital Sciences Corp. planned to launch the rocket at 3 p.m. However, excessive wind levels...
Tags: Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Science and Technology, SpaceX
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Swirling storms discovered on Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back photos an enormous swirling storm near Saturn's north pole. The images were photographed at a distance of 250,000 miles away from the planet. These phenomena is similar to what Cassini found at Saturn's south pole a...
Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA to launch 2 sounding rockets from Va.
Two suborbital sounding rockets are scheduled to be launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore on Friday and Saturday. NASA plans to launch a Terrier-Improved Malemut carrying four university experiments Friday morning....
Tags: NASA, Science and Technology
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NASA flies unmanned aircraft into Hurricane Leslie
NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight from California to Virginia. With the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3)...
Tags: Science, Wallops Island (Accomack, Virginia), Tropical Weather, NASA, Atlantic Ocean
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Governor McDonnell releases vetoes, amendments to legislation
Gov. Bob McDonnell has vetoed at least seven bills passed by the 2012 General Assembly and amended dozens more. One of the amendments would allow cities, counties and towns to phase in 5 percent pay raises that teachers and local employees will have to...
Tags: Voting, Music, Crime, Law and Justice, Taxation, Executive Branch
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New NASA satellite sees tornadoes like never before
On Jan. 22 and 23, 2012, more than 37 tornadoes struck the southern USA. Ten of them tore across the Lower Mississippi Valley into Alabama. Worst hit were St. Clair and Jefferson County, Ala., where 2 people were killed, about 100 others injured, and...
Tags: Tornadoes, Satellite Technology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southern U.S. Storms (2011), NASA
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Aurora borealis may be visible tonight
UPDATED 10:47PM: So far tonight, the best viewing of the aurora has stayed in the New England states and in Canada. There's the outside chance that we could catch a glimpse late tonight, but it doesn't appear to be as active as the one was a few months...Tags: NASA
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New satellite sends back stunning images of Earth
NASA'snewest Earth-watching satellite has sent back a breathtaking image of our "Blue Marble" that offers a taste of the orbiting observatory's vast capabilities.
The image release comes just a day after the satellite was given a new name: Suomi NPP,...Tags: Satellite Technology, Science, NASA, Weather Science
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Full snow moon lights the sky
February's full moon peaked Tuesday evening. The full "Snow Moon" as it was named by Native American tribes since heavy snows typically occur in the northern regions during February.
The full moon for each month occurs when the moon is on the opposite...Tags: Snow Storms, NASA
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