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- NASA prepares for first Virginia coast launch to moon
- NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation completes second Dream Chaser captive-carry test
- A fluffy disk around a baby star
| NASA prepares for first Virginia coast launch to moon Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:13 AM PDT In an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon, NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. |
| NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation completes second Dream Chaser captive-carry test Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:12 AM PDT NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of Louisville, Colo., successfully completed a captive-carry test of the Dream Chaser spacecraft Thursday, Aug. 22, at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif. |
| A fluffy disk around a baby star Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:11 AM PDT Astronomers have observed a disk around the young star RY Tau (Tauri). The team's analysis of the disk shows that a "fluffy" layer above it is responsible for the scattered light observed in the infrared image. Detailed comparisons with computer simulations of scattered light from the disk reveal that this layer appears to be a remnant of material from an earlier phase of stellar and disk development, when dust and gas were falling onto the disk. |
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