Thursday, June 12, 2014
NASA Updating Status of LDSD ‘Flying Saucer’ at 1 p.m. EDT
The LDSD test article in the clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, preparing for shipment to Hawaii for its first test launch this summer. LDSD will help land bigger space payloads on Mars or return them back to Earth. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace / Robert Fisher
Map of universe questioned; dwarf galaxies don’t fit standard model
This picture of the galaxy UGC 10214 was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in March during Servicing Mission 3B.
The solar wind breaks through the Earth’s magnetic field
The study has been carried out with data from the four Cluster satellites. (Photo Credit: Image: ESA)
via sciencecodex
EXO-200 narrows its search for Majorana neutrinos
- This image shows the insertion of the EXO-200 detector into the cryostat 650 meters below ground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad (New Mexico). Image courtesy SLAC.
Kepler space telescope ready to start new hunt for exoplanets
Artist’s impression of the Kepler telescope. Image courtesy NASA, Ames, JPL-Caltech.
Krauss, Wilczek honored with first prize from Gravity Research Foundation
The Krauss-Wilczek paper describes how the recent claimed discovery of gravitational waves from the early universe can provide definitive evidence that gravity must be understood as a quantum theory.
via asunews
