News tagged with orion
Born in beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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The Explosive Disintegration of a Young Stellar System in Orion
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars.
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Orionid meteor shower peaks Wednesday
(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Orionid meteor shower will peak in the hours before dawn on Oct. 21, according to the editors of StarDate magazine, who said the shower could produce up to 20 meteors per hour.
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Return to Sender: MISSE-6 Comes Home After More Than a Year in Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's been eight years since the first Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE, arrived at the orbiting laboratory. During that time, more than 4,000 materials samples have ...
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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NASA's Orion Spacecraft Passes Significant Design Milestone
NASA has taken a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle by completing the Orion Project's preliminary design review, or PDR. Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International ...
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
Aug 28, 2009 |
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A Look into the Hellish Cradles of Suns and Solar Systems
The dense star cluster RCW 38 glistens about 5500 light years away in the direction of the constellation Vela (the Sails). Like the Orion Nebula Cluster, RCW 38 is an "embedded cluster", in that the nascent ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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NASA Completes Assembly of Ares I-X Test Rocket
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter-century a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA's Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ares I-X rocket, its simulated crew module ...
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Aug 17, 2009 |
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Sharpest views of Betelgeuse reveal how supergiant stars lose mass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Betelgeuse -- the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) -- is a red supergiant, one of the biggest stars known, and almost 1000 times larger than our Sun. It is ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Air Force report: Ares I crew couldn't survive blast in first minute
The crew of NASA's newest spacecraft "will not survive" an explosion of the Ares I rocket within the first minute of launch because blazing chunks of solid-rocket fuel would melt the parachutes on the crew-escape system, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2009 |
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NASA Successfully Tests Alternate Launch Abort System for Astronaut Escape
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next generation of spacecraft will have the safest-ever astronaut escape system, a modern-day version of the reliable Apollo system. Like Apollo, the Orion launch abort system will ...
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Jul 08, 2009 |
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Astronomers discover pair of solar systems in the making
Two University of Hawai'i at Mānoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Red giant star Betelgeuse is mysteriously shrinking
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star in the constellation Orion, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.
Jun 10, 2009 |
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NASA Launch Tests Alternate Concept for Astronaut Escape System
NASA's Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, is scheduled to be tested June 15 at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The launch window extends from approximately 5:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. EDT.
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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White House orders review of NASA space plans
(AP) -- The White House has ordered a complete outside review of NASA's manned space program, including plans to return astronauts to the moon.
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May 07, 2009 |
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