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- NASA Cassini images may reveal birth of a Saturn moon
- Cosmic slurp: Supercomputers help astronomers understand and predict how black holes swallow stars
- International Space Station to beam video via laser back to Earth
| NASA Cassini images may reveal birth of a Saturn moon Posted: 14 Apr 2014 03:03 PM PDT NASA's Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the formation of the planet's known moons. |
| Cosmic slurp: Supercomputers help astronomers understand and predict how black holes swallow stars Posted: 14 Apr 2014 12:08 PM PDT A 'tidal disruption' occurs when a star orbits too close to a black hole and gets usurped. Researchers are using supercomputers to simulate tidal disruptions to better understand the dynamics of the process. Doing so will help astronomers find many more possible candidates of tidal disruptions in sky surveys and reveal details of how stars and black holes interact. |
| International Space Station to beam video via laser back to Earth Posted: 14 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT A team of about 20 working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., through the lab's Phaeton early-career-hire program, led the development of the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) investigation, which is preparing for an April 14 launch to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX-3 mission. The goal? NASA's first optical communication experiment on the orbital laboratory. |
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