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USN fired a Hydra-Iris sea-launched sounding rocket. to 184-mi. altitude carrying a 100-lb. payload. The rocket ...

... their formation. Astronomers did not know before the new study whether the disk around TW Hydrae contained enough material to form new planets similar to our own. Before, we had to ... fresh look at the disk with the space telescope to analyze light coming from TW Hydrae and pick out the spectral signature of a gas called hydrogen deuteride. Simple hydrogen molecules ... other stars, said Glenn Wahlgren, Herschel program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Whether TW Hydrae's large disk will lead to an exotic planetary system with larger and more numerous ...

... a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around TW Hydrae. The gap is 1.9 billion miles wide and the disk is 41 billion miles ... grow through the slow accumulation of smaller debris. Complicating the story further is that TW Hydrae is only 55 percent as massive as our sun. It's so intriguing to see ... theories as to how you can actually form a planet very far out." The TW Hydrae disk also lacks large dust grains in its outer regions. Observations from the Atacama Large ...

... should appear completely dark — the team could determine just how the optics focus incoming light. IRIS can then be recalibrated to accommodate any changes that may have happened during launch into ... the Explorer Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin designed the IRIS observatory and manages the mission for NASA. '''Sounding Rocket EVE Supporting Tune-up of SDO ...

... views of these structures along with information about their velocity, temperature and density." After launch, IRIS will travel in a polar, sun-synchronous orbit around Earth, crossing nearly directly over the ... utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas. Other IRIS contributors include the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.; Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont ...

... official naming of Pluto’s newest small moons—Nix and Hydra, names from Greek mythology. The HST had discovered Nix and Hydra, previously known as S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2 ... January 2006 toward the Pluto system. Scientists expected that New Horizons would map Nix and Hydra in detail when the spacecraft flew by Pluto in summer 2015. ''Kenneth Chang, “Moons of ... Renamed,” New York Times, 23 June 2006; NASA, “Pluto and Its Moons: Charon, Nix and Hydra,” 23 June 2006, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/plutos_moons_prt.htm (accessed ...

... million years old and located about 175 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Hydra. The frigid watery haze detected by Hogerheijde and his team is thought to originate from ... is a testament to the instrument-builders that such weak signals can be detected." TW Hydrae is an orange dwarf star, somewhat smaller and cooler than our yellow-white sun. The ... they contain on freshly created worlds through impacts, giving rise to oceans. Astronomers believe TW Hydrae and its icy disk may be representative of many other young star systems, providing new ...

... .m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4, about the upcoming launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. The briefing will be held at NASA Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in ... Earth's climate. The panelists for the briefing are: -- Jeffrey Newmark, IRIS program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Alan Title, IRIS principal investigator, Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif. -- Gary ...

... Thursday, July 25, to present the first images from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which was launched June 27 on a mission to study the sun. After its telescope ... , Washington S. Pete Worden, director, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Alan Title, IRIS principal investigator, Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif. Gary Kushner ...

... ., manages DLN for the agency. -end- ''RELEASE: C10-033'' ''NASA AWARDS LAUNCH SERVICES CONTRACT FOR IRIS MISSION'' CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., to launch ... current solar observational capabilities. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the IRIS project. NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center is responsible for program management ...

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