Two Guinness World Records Set With Help From Goddard Space Flight Center
*NASA* Setting two world records in two consecutive months, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., helped share some of NASA's amazing accomplishments. The awards highlight the...
View ArticleNASA Using Sounding Rockets To Study Our Ionosphere
*Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* Way up in the Earth’s atmosphere is a layer of charged particles called the ionosphere, which plays a crucial role in the transmission of radio and...
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It's Here! The 2013 Summer Solstice
Patch Woonsocket, RI -- Today is the first day of summer, also known as the summer solstice. It's the longest day of the year, and the shortest night. The actual moment of the solstice will occur when...
View ArticleCassini to Take Another Photo of Earth From Saturn
One of the most famous images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is of Saturn as it eclipses the Sun. With the gas giant bathed in shadow, a tiny speck called Earth can be seen in the photo. This week,...
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Moon will Look its Largest This Weekend with 'Supermoon'
Those who look up to a clear sky this weekend may be surprised to see an extra large moon, as Sunday, June 23 is the day when the moon will become a "supermoon." It will appear to be 14 to 30 percent...
View ArticleFIve Big Myths About Supermoons
Send us your supermoon photos this weekend! You can tweet your photos with hashtag #HPsupermoon. Or, you can submit them directly to our "Supermoon 2013" slideshow, which will be featured in our...
View ArticlePhoto blog: Supermoon over the Bay Area
On Sunday night, the full moon will be at its closest point to Earth this year. It will appear 15 percent larger and 20 percent brighter than usual, and will not be so close again until August 2014....
View ArticleThat's No Moon, It's a ... Supermoon!
Patch Palatine, IL -- If the skies are clear Saturday night, the moon we'll see will appear super large and super close. It'll be what's called a "Supermoon," where the moon is at perigee — its...
View ArticleAre Apple and Microsoft Trading Places?
Filed under: Investing In 1999, *Microsoft* was the company to which all others were compared... and then the stock spent the next decade trading sideways. Last fall, *Apple* won the title of "biggest...
View ArticleSuomi NPP Satellite Images Show Earth's Vegetation In Great Detail
*redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online* New high-resolution images released earlier this week by NASA provide a bird’s-eye view of the areas of Earth where there is lush vegetation,...
View ArticleSun Produced Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection On 20 June
*Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online* As the world embraces for an upcoming supermoon, the sun is proving it will not be outdone as it produced another coronal mass ejection (CME)...
View ArticleUp in the sky, look: It's Supermoon!
The heavens will deliver a rare treat to moonstruck romantics and werewolves Sunday who rise before the sun. A feat of lunar synchronicity will create a Supermoon. This happens when the moon is full...
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Supermoon to Fill the Skies Above Caldwells Tonight
Patch Caldwells, NJ -- Will the skies cooperate over the Caldwells so we can all witness the Supermoon tonight? The answer is more than likely. The weather forecast is calling for clear skies for the...
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Supermoon to Fill the Skies Above Livingston Tonight
Patch Livingston, NJ -- Will the skies cooperate over Livingston so we can all witness the Supermoon tonight? The answer is more than likely. The weather forecast is calling for clear skies for the...
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Tonight is the night of the super moon, When the moon is supposed to be...
Patch St. Charles, IL -- Tonight is the night of the super moon, When the moon is supposed to be closest to the earth that has been a while. Reported by Patch 6 hours ago.
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Supermoon Looms Bright In Night Sky (Photos)
Look up in the sky for a super sight: the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. The so-called supermoon will appear 14 percent larger than normal early Sunday as our celestial neighbor swings...
View ArticleAP PHOTOS: Supermoon looms bright in night sky
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View ArticleMammal, Amphibian Found Cohabitating In Fossilized Burrow
*redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online* Sorry, Felix and Oscar, but an international team of researchers have found a real-life odd couple that puts Neil Simon’s famous duo to shame...
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Supermoon Looms Bright in Night Sky
Look up in the sky for a super sight: the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. The so-called supermoon will appear 14 percent larger than normal early Sunday as our celestial neighbor swings...
View ArticleNASA Marks Fifth Anniversary Of TWINS Mission
*redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online* This month marks the fifth anniversary of NASA’s Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) missions, which are...
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