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NASA sees Tropical Storm Sanvu continue to intensify

Two NASA satellites have provided infrared and rainfall data that has shown Tropical Storm Sanvu continues to intensify as it heads toward Iwo To, Japan. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

X-ray quasars, and a distance record

Quasars are thought to be galaxies whose bright nuclei contain massive black holes around which disks are actively accreting matter. The accretion process releases vast amounts of energy, often including a ...

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created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

GOES satellite movie tracked tornadic Texas trouble

A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system moving through the ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA sees cyclone Lua strengthening for March 17 landfall

Northern Australia's Pilbara coast is under warnings, alerts and watches as powerful Cyclone Lua nears for a landfall. NASA's Aqua satellite has been providing infrared, visible and microwave data on Lua that ...

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created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA studies March 3 severe weather outbreak with infrared, microwave vision

A NASA satellite used infrared and microwave "vision" to analyze the storm system that created the March 3 severe weather outbreak in the U.S.

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Citizen scientists reveal a bubbly Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Irina getting loopy

Two NASA satellites have been measuring rainfall and cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm as it has been "going loopy" in the Mozambique Channel over the last couple of days. Irina is making a cyclonic ...

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created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellite movie shows movement of tornadic weather system

A satellite animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES satellite ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's TRMM satellite measures heavy rainfall in Madagascar from System 92S

A weak tropical low pressure area known as System 92S, and locally called Irina caused flooding over northern Madagascar less than two weeks after deadly flooding by Tropical Cyclone Giovanna in the south ...

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created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rain-soaked Madagascar again threatened by Cyclone Giovanna

Rainfall data from NASA's TRMM satellite revealed that parts of Madagascar's east coast received over a foot (30 cm) of rainfall from Cyclone Giovanna's passage, and new satellite data shows Cyclone Giovanna ...

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees Cyclone Giovanna moving through the Mozambique Channel

Infrared NASA satellite imagery showed Cyclone Giovanna moving south through the Mozambique Channel on Thursday, February 16, 2012. Infrared data showed that Giovanna was regaining strength in the warm waters ...

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created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees Giovanna reach cyclone strength, threaten Madagascar

Tropical Storm 12S built up steam and became a cyclone on February 10, 2012 as NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead. Residents of east-central Madagascar should prepare for this cyclone to make landfall ...

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's TRMM satellite sees Cyclone Jasmine in 3-D

Data from NASA's TRMM satellite was used to create a 3-Dimensional look at Cyclone Jasmine, currently moving through the South Pacific Ocean.

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees Tropical Storm 12S - a possible threat to Madagascar

The twelfth tropical depression formed in the Southern Indian Ocean today and quickly became a tropical storm, dubbed Tropical Storm 12S. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm and captured infrared data that revealed ...

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0