Wednesday, June 19, 2013

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


Cassini probe to take photo of Earth from deep space

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 01:19 PM PDT

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge the historic interplanetary portrait as it is being taken.

The turbulent, high-energy sky is keeping NuSTAR busy

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 04:44 AM PDT

NuSTAR has been busy studying the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Recently, a few high-energy events have sprung up, akin to "things that go bump in the night." When one telescope catches a sudden outpouring of high-energy light in the sky, NuSTAR and a host of other telescopes stop what they were doing and take a better look.

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