Astronaut Kicks Lunar Field Goal

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Score three points for NASA. With time running out late in Apollo 15's mission to the Moon in 1971, Astronaut David Scott prepared to split the uprights and bring about yet another dramatic end-of-the-mission victory for NASA. Scott used a special lunar football designed for the rugged games held on the Moon. R1-D1, a predecessor to R2-D2, cheered from the sideline. Happy April Fools' Day from the folks at APOD. In reality, Astronaut Scott placed a drill that measured how temperature changed with lunar depth. The foreground device actually detected high-energy particles that escaped from the Sun.

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couth: Word of the day for April 1, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : couth , adj :
(obsolete) Familiar, known; well-known, renowned. (Scotland) Variant of couthie. Agreeable, friendly, pleasant. Comfortable; cosy, snug. […] Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined. To celebrate April Fools’ Day, we are featuring a series of less familiar cousins to common words – enjoy!

'Breaches Everywhere': Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, And Tough Questions Follow

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These Silicon Valley Investors’ Bets May Pay Off

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Call to Regulate Facebook, Explained

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Bezos’s Security Consultant Accuses Saudis of Hacking the Amazon C.E.O.’s Phone

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Bezos’s Security Consultant Accuses Saudis of Hacking the Amazon C.E.O.’s Phone

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verklempt: Word of the day for March 31, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : verklempt , adj :
(US, colloquial) Overcome with emotion, choked up. (US, colloquial) Flustered, nervous, overwhelmed.

3D 67P

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Put on your red/cyan glasses and float next to the jagged and double-lobed nucleus of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known as Comet 67P. The stereo anaglyph was created by combining two images from the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle OSIRIS camera taken on July 25, 2015 from a distance of 184 kilometers. Numerous jets are emanating from the small solar system world's active surface near its closest approach to the Sun. The larger lobe is around 4 kilometers in diameter, joined to a smaller, 2.5 kilometer diameter lobe by a narrow neck. Rosetta's mission to the comet ended in September 2016 when the spacecraft was commanded to a controlled impact with the comet's surface. Keep those 3D glasses on though. You can check out a new catalog of nearly 1400 stereo anaglyphs created from Rosetta image data on this website.

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pseudopatient: Word of the day for March 30, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : pseudopatient , n :
(dated) A person who pretends to be ill, especially to gain some benefit. (medicine) A person who poses as a patient so that research may be conducted or staff trained. Today is National Doctors’ Day in the United States, which recognizes the service rendered by physicians.

The Day The Dinosaurs Died

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Lyft Shares Soar in Trading Debut That Bodes Well for Wave of Tech I.P.O.s to Come

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YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes

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Hubble Spots Flock of Cosmic Ducks

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This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Messier 11 is also known as the Wild Duck Cluster, as its brightest stars form a “V” shape that somewhat resembles a flock of ducks in flight.

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The Week in Tech: Who Should Let Driverless Cars Off the Leash?

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Huawei Shrugs Off U.S. Clampdown With a $100 Billion Year

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chaotic: Word of the day for March 29, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : chaotic , adj :
Filled with chaos. Extremely disorganized or in disarray. (mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome. (role-playing games) Aligned against following or upholding laws and principles.

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The Mounting Federal Investigations Into Facebook

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Lyft Prices I.P.O. at $72 a Share, Marking Arrival of Gig Economy to Wall Street

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NASA Television to Broadcast Launch, Docking of Space Station Cargo Ship

Hello, Information from NASA A Russian Progress cargo ship is scheduled to launch on a three-hour flight to the International Space Station Thursday, April 4.

March 28, 2019
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Hubble Watches Spun-Up Asteroid Coming Apart

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A small asteroid was caught in the process of spinning so fast it’s throwing off material, according to new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.

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Huawei Security ‘Defects’ Are Found by British Authorities

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The Gaia Stars of M15

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Messier 15 is a 13 billion year old relic of the early formative years of our galaxy, one of about 170 globular star clusters that still roam the halo of the Milky Way. About 200 light-years in diameter, it lies about 35,000 light years away toward the constellation Pegasus. But this realistic looking view of the ancient globular star cluster is not a photograph. Instead it's an animated gif image constructed from remarkably precise individual measurements of star positions, brightness, and color. The astronomically rich data set used was made by the sky-scanning Gaia satellite which also determined parallax distances for 1.3 billion Milky Way stars. In the animated gif, twinkling stars are M15's identified RR Lyrae stars. Plentiful in M15, RR Lyrae stars are evolved pulsating variable stars whose brightness and pulsation period, typically less than a day, are related.

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atompunk: Word of the day for March 28, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : atompunk , n :
(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1965).

Microsoft Seizes Websites It Traces to Iranian Hackers

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Turing Award Won by Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence

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Joan Stupik, Guidance and Control Engineer

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When Joan Stupik was a child, her parents bought her a mini-planetarium that she could use to project the stars on her bedroom ceiling.

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A Favorite Tool While Reporting on Start-Ups: Paper?

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Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win Turing Award

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Protecting Your Internet Accounts Keeps Getting Easier. Here’s How to Do It.

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wagon: Word of the day for March 27, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : wagon , n :
A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan. Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”). (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”). (rail transport) A freight car on a railway. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car. (Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.

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NASA Administrator Statement on Return to Moon in Next Five Years

Hello, Information from NASA The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Tuesday’s announcement by Vice President Mike Pence, at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council, about putting American astronauts back on the Moon in the next five years:

March 26, 2019
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NASA Selects Three Additional Informal Learning Institutions to Engage Learners in its Mission

Hello, Information from NASA NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) has selected three additional informal education organizations to supplement the initial group selected in June 2018.

March 25, 2019
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Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program

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A.I. Is Flying Drones (Very, Very Slowly)

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Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Hot-Fire Test

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A static hot-fire test of the Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor to help qualify the motor for human spaceflight, to help ensure Orion is ready from liftoff to splashdown for missions to the Moon.

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AE Aurigae and the Flaming Star Nebula

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Is star AE Aurigae on fire? No. Even though AE Aurigae is named the flaming star, the surrounding nebula IC 405 is named the Flaming Star Nebula, and the region shape gives the appearance of fire, there is no fire. Fire, typically defined as the rapid molecular acquisition of oxygen, happens only when sufficient oxygen is present and is not important in such high-energy, low-oxygen environments such as stars. The material that appears as smoke is mostly interstellar hydrogen, but does contain smoke-like dark filaments of carbon-rich dust grains. The bright star AE Aurigae, visible just to the lower right of the image center, is so hot it glows blue, emitting light so energetic it knocks electrons away from surrounding gas. When a proton recaptures an electron, light is emitted, as seen in the surrounding emission nebula. Featured here, the Flaming Star nebula lies about 1,500 light years distant, spans about 5 light years, and is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga).

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felicitous: Word of the day for March 26, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : felicitous , adj :
Characterized by felicity. Appropriate, apt, fitting. Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. Causing happiness or pleasure. (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.

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NASA Updates Spacewalk Assignments, Announces Final Preview Briefing

Hello, Information from NASA With the first in a series of three spacewalks successfully completed at the International Space Station, NASA has updated astronaut assignments for the remaining two spacewalks and will preview the third in an upcoming news conference on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

March 25, 2019
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NASA Television to Broadcast Fifth Meeting of the National Space Council

Hello, Information from NASA NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage of the fifth meeting of the National Space Council starting at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 26.

March 25, 2019
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Apple Unveils News Service to Run on Its Devices

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Nick Hague Completes First Spacewalk

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NASA astronaut Nick Hague completed the first spacewalk of his career on Friday, March 22, 2019. He and fellow astronaut Anne McClain worked on a set of battery upgrades for six hours and 39 minutes, on the International Space Station’s starboard truss.

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adytum: Word of the day for March 25, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : adytum , n :
(Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in an ancient temple, from where oracles were given. (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum. Today is Greece’s Independence Day, which marks the day in 1821 when the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire was declared.

Hey, Look at Me! I’m a Venture Capitalist.

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Depressed and Anxious? These Video Games Want to Help

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Zooming in on Star Cluster Terzan 5

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are less than 200 left. Over the eons, many globular clusters were destroyed by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center. Surviving relics are older than any Earth fossil, older than any other structures in our Galaxy, and limit the universe itself in raw age. There are few, if any, young globular clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy because conditions are not ripe for more to form. The featured video shows what it might look like to go from the Earth to the globular cluster Terzan 5, ending with a picture of the cluster taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. This star cluster has been found to contain not only stars formed in the early days of our Milky Way Galaxy, but also, quite surprisingly, others that formed in a separate burst of star formation about 7 billion years later.

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get cold feet: Word of the day for March 24, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : get cold feet , v :
(intransitive, originally US, informal) To become nervous or anxious and reconsider a decision about an upcoming event.

Netflix's 'Love, Death, & Robots' Offers Gorgeous & Gross Bite-Sized Glimpses Of The Future

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Four Towers and the Equinox Moon

Astronomy news update from NASA :
The first Full Moon of northern spring rises behind four distant towers in this telescopic view. In an image captured from some 40 kilometers west of the city of Madrid, this moonrise also represents a near coincidence of the full lunar phase with lunar perigee and the March equinox. Close to the horizon, the Full Moon's strangely rippled and distorted shape has more to do with the long sight-line through a layered atmosphere, though. Tantalizing visible effects of the substantial atmospheric refraction include the appearance of a thin floating sliver just above the lunar disk. The remarkable optical mirage is related to the more commonly witnessed green flash of the setting Sun.

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bulldog clip: Word of the day for March 23, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : bulldog clip , n :
A binder clip with rigid handles. (surgery) A surgical instrument with serrated jaws and a spring-loaded handle used to grip blood vessels or similar organs. Today is celebrated as National Puppy Day in the United States. The commemoration was founded in 2006 by Colleen Paige to celebrate the relationship between young dogs and humans, and to promote adoption of orphaned puppies and highlight the cruelty of puppy mills.

These New NASA Images Of Jupiter's Storms Are Gorgeous

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Pinterest, Ahead of I.P.O., Reveals Fast Growth and Losses

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Hubble Captures the Brilliant Heart of a Massive Galaxy

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This fuzzy orb of light is a giant elliptical galaxy filled with an incredible 200 billion stars.

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The Week in Tech: Our Future Robots Will Need Super-Smart Safety Checks

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A Symphony in Northern Winter Skies

Astronomy news update from NASA :
Despite the cold, a chance to view the shimmering northern lights coaxed this skygazer onto the frozen surface of Lake Superior on the west coast of the Keweenaw Peninusla and offered this nocturnal crescendo as a reward. A northern late winter night sky also plays across the panoramic composition of images made between 10pm and 1am on the night of February 28/March 1. At left, a faint band of Zodiacal light rises sharply from the horizon crossing Mars and the Pleides star cluster. Both the distant galaxy M31 and our own Milky Way shine above the greenish auroral arc. Navigational north pole star Polaris is centered above and accompanied on the right by the northern night's most recognizable asterism, the Big Dipper. Terrestrial lights include markers for two breakwaters on the the horizon near the center of the scene.

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dihydrogen monoxide: Word of the day for March 22, 2019

Our new 'Word Of The Day' article update : dihydrogen monoxide , n :
(inorganic chemistry, humorous) H₂O, water. Today is designated by the United Nations as World Water Day, which focuses on the importance of fresh water and the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway.

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Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know.

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Margaret W. ‘Hap’ Brennecke: Trailblazer

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Margaret W. ‘Hap’ Brennecke was the first female welding engineer to work in the Materials and Processes Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

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I Deleted Facebook Last Year. Here’s What Changed (and What Didn’t).

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