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With Science Bryan Walls sng.curator@nasa.gov http://science.nasa.gov/images/HomeXtra/SNGLogo.gif http://science.nasa.gov 122 90 Science http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/18feb_coolmovie.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/18feb_coolmovie.htm Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST 03:11 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/coolmovie/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory amazed onlookers last week when it flew past a sundog and destroyed it. Must-see videos of the event captured shock waves from the rocket billowing through the sundog, eliciting cries of delight and amazement from the crowd below. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_coolmovie_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/17feb_3dsun.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/17feb_3dsun.htm Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST 03:49 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/3dsun/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun directly to your cell phone. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_3dsun_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/10feb_friendlyskies.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/10feb_friendlyskies.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST 04:54 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/friendlyskies/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) surge through thunderstorms at about the same altitude where commercial airliners fly. Do these blasts of gamma-radiation pose a hazard to air travelers? </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_friendlyskies_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/05feb_sdo.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/05feb_sdo.htm Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST 10:14 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/sdo/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality movies of solar explosions, peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's inner dynamo, and--researchers hope--unravel the mysteries of solar variability. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_sdo_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/02feb_asteroidcollision.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/02feb_asteroidcollision.htm Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/asteroidcollision/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_asteroidcollision_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/29jan_firefly.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/29jan_firefly.htm Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 05:24 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/firefly/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> There's a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_firefly_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26jan_mars.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26jan_mars.htm Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/mars/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at any time between 2008 and 2014. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_mars_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26jan_spirit.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26jan_spirit.htm Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 04:49 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/spirit/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA announced today that Mars rover Spirit cannot be freed from its Martian sandtrap. Now the rover will begin a second career as a stationary science platform. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_spirit_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/15jan_ibex2.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/15jan_ibex2.htm Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 03:41 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/ibex2/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> Evidence is mounting that a strong magnetic field lurks just beyond the edge of the solar system. This could explain the recent discovery of a &quot;giant ribbon&quot; in space by NASA's IBEX spacecraft. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_ibex2_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/14jan_planetsafari.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/14jan_planetsafari.htm Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 04:44 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/planetsafari/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is designed to study stars and galaxies. Astronomers are beginning to realize, however, that Webb will make a great planet hunter too. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_planetsafari_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/08jan_flyingtelescope.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/08jan_flyingtelescope.htm Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 04:34 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/flyingtelescope/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> Most astronomers wouldn't dream of opening their observatory's doors in 100 mph winds. Yet NASA's new SOFIA telescope recently flew in an airplane at 250 mph with doors wide open. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_flyingtelescope_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/07jan_nustar.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/07jan_nustar.htm Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 05:41 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/nustar/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA is building a new space telescope named &quot;NuSTAR&quot; to answer a question that has been vexing astrophysicists for decades: Why won't the supernova explode? </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_nustar_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/04jan_fiveplanets.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/04jan_fiveplanets.htm Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 04:07 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/images/fiveplanets/frontpage2.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2010_fiveplanets_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/31dec_uncertainfuture.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/31dec_uncertainfuture.htm Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST 04:58 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/uncertainfuture/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA's Mars rover Spirit is about to mark six years of Red Planet exploration. However, the upcoming Martian winter could end the roving career of the beloved, scrappy robot. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2009_uncertainfuture_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29dec_bluemoon.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29dec_bluemoon.htm Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST 03:20 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/bluemoon/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> Party planners take note. For the first time in almost twenty years, there's going to be a Blue Moon on New Year's Eve. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2009_bluemoon_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/23dec_voyager.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/23dec_voyager.htm Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST 04:36 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/voyager/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2009_voyager_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/18dec_titanglint.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/18dec_titanglint.htm Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST 03:53 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/titanglint/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2009_titanglint_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17dec_whenaurorascollide.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17dec_whenaurorascollide.htm Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST 05:18 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/whenaurorascollide/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> A continent-wide network of all-sky cameras has photographed a never-before-seen phenomenon: colliding auroras that produce explosions of light. The must-see images have solved a long-standing mystery of Northern Lights. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2009_whenaurorascollide_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/11dec_climateonestop.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/11dec_climateonestop.htm Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST 02:17 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/climateonestop/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> This week, researchers attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen unveiled a unique web site that gathers and organizes climate data for decision makers, professional scientists and lay people. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2009_climateonestop_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/08dec_geminids.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/08dec_geminids.htm Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST 03:35 <p><img src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/geminids2009/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" /> The Geminid meteor shower has been intensifying in recent years, and researchers say 2009 could be the best year yet. This year's display peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th. </p> <p>Please vote for this podcast at <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825">PodcastAlley</a>! </p> <p><a href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2009_geminids2009_story.mp3">Get this podcast story. </a></p> no