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Voyager 1 exits Solar system, enters interstellar space 13 September 2013
This is extremely exciting news for the Star Wars fans. NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered interstellar space, which is the space between two stars. In simple language, this means the craft has ventured outside our...
Keywords: Voyager enters interstellar space, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Voyager 1, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Read MoreThis is how Earth looks for Saturnians 03 August 2013
Earth glows, even from 1.5 billion kilometers in space. Two NASA interplanetary spacecrafts offered us one black and white and one color photo of Earth from millions of miles away. Some days back, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped Earth and its...
Keywords: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory., NASA Science, Earth from Saturn's orbit, Saturn's rings and Earth
Read MoreChinese hackers axe NASA websites 02 March 2012
In a shocking development, Chinese hackers broke into the internet security cordon of the NASA’s websites and took control of the USA’s prestigious space mission centre Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) last November. This was disclosed in a report released by...
Keywords: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA’s websites, JPL website hacked by Chinese hackers, NASA sites hacked
Read MoreDust rings around stars need not be planets 16 May 2012
Major contention has been scripted by a new study over the formation of cosmic rings around stars. This study reveals that sharp rings of dust around stars can even form on their own and need not necessarily be planets. This...
Keywords: NASA, NASA, exoplanet, Fomalhaut
Read MoreMassive planet with four suns, 125 light-years away 07 March 2015
Astronomers have discovered a massive planet with four suns only 125 light-years from Earth. The planet is at least 10 times as big as Jupiter and probably has no actual surface to stand on. If you could fly a spacecraft...
Keywords: Astrnomy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Astrnomy, Robo-AO adaptive optics system
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