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... of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, provides new insight into the nature of a mysterious class of black holes ... Soria of Curtin University in Australia, who led the new study. The dramatic jump in X-ray brightness, according to the researchers, likely occurred because of a sudden increase in the ... 's Hubble Space Telescope to discover a bright blue source at the position of the X-ray source. The object had not been previously observed in a Magellan Telescope image taken ...

... : 12-086 NASA'S SWIFT NARROWS DOWN ORIGIN OF IMPORTANT SUPERNOVA CLASS'' WASHINGTON -- Studies using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA's Swift satellite provide new insights into the elusive ... and university students a chance to help design a deep space habitat. The Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge is accepting applications for the 2013 challenge, inviting students to design ...

... INNOVATION CHALLENGE'' WASHINGTON -- Five universities have been selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation. These universities ... selected these five teams from among a group of proposals received in May 2012. The X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge 2013 teams are: - California State Polytechnic University, Ponoma: Vertical Habitability Layout ...

... at Langley, but did get into what we called a closed loop simulation of the X-15 with the naval centrifuge at Johnsville, Pennsylvania. The idea here was that through the ... the centrifuge, they were able to fly reentries, which is the main task of the X-15, and experience the G forces. But their inputs from their control sticks and rudders ... out at the Cape and saw that one. That was eerie. That was almost like "X-Files." Laughter That thing, yes, it disappeared into the clouds after a very nominal-type ...

... repeatedly collect data that will be used to design future 'green' airliners, said Heather Maliska, X-48C project manager at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California. "It is bittersweet ... hybrid or blended wing aircraft. NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and Boeing funded the X-48 technology demonstration research effort, which supported NASA's goals of reduced fuel burn, emissions ...

... its 6mo lifetime. This launch was the first in a three mission program to study x-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays emitted by stellar sources, the other launches to be ... vehicle weighing 22 0001b; budget problems had reduced the size of the undertaking. However, the x-ray detector built by NRL as 1 of 4 experiments carried by HEAO 1 was ... numbered about 200; HEAO 1 might increase the list to several thousand. Celestial sources of x-ray emission included white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, products of stellar catastrophe, as ...

... systems. ( Johnson Space Center JSC Release 77-72) NASA reported that Dr. Lo I. Yin, x-ray researcher at GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER GSFC , had invented a hand-held device producing ... new technology, it contained off-the-shelf items such as the radioactive source and an x-ray phosphor screen besides he intensifier. Pulling a trigger unshielded the source, ending through the object being examined a low x-ray dose which the phosphor screen converted to visible light. The unit's high intensification ...

... ,570 meters) and then released it to a safe landing. NASA’s director of the X-37 program called the successful test, “a cause for celebration,” saying that incremental tests on prototype airplanes would ultimately make the X-37 program both cost-efficient and successful. Scientists hailed the safe landing of the X-40A as a triumph of cooperation among the U.S. military, NASA, and the Boeing ...

... radio telescopes on Earth and from spacecraft orbiting Earth, namely the HST and the Chandra X-ray Observatory . Researchers found that, although Jupiter’s magnetosphere deflects solar winds, shock waves carried ... magnetic pole. Existing theories could not explain either the pulsations or the location of the x-ray source. Scientists had posited that energetic oxygen and sulfur ions steadily precipitate from Jupiter ...

... radiation. Giacconi's projects had included NASA-funded research leading to his discovery of cosmic x-ray sources. A professor at Johns Hopkins University, Giacconi had been the first scientist to ... and the Principal Investigator for the Chandra Ultra-Deep Survey, which had obtained the deepest x-ray exposures with a millionth-second observation. (NASA, “Nobel Physics in Physics Awarded to Astronomer ...

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