WASHINGTON — “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band will participate in the 57(th) Inauguration of the President of the United States on Jan. 21, 2013. This marks the Marine Band’s 54(th) consecutive inaugural appearance, a tradition that dates back to Thomas Jefferson in 1801. Providing the inaugural soundtrack since 1801, the Marine Band provides music […]
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NASA’S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
WASHINGTON — The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission. GALEX has since been loaned to the California […]
NASA’s NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy Web
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside. The new image is being released Monday along with NuSTAR’s view of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, Calif. […]
NASA’S Kepler Mission Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun’s “habitable zone,” the region in the planetary system where liquid water might exist on the surface of a planet. Based on observations conducted […]
Researchers Identify Water Rich Meteorite Linked To Mars Crust
WASHINGTON — NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water than other Martian meteorites from unknown origins. This new class of meteorite was found in 2011 in the Sahara Desert. Designated Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, and nicknamed […]
