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Korean snow

NASA Seeks the Gold in Winter Olympics Snow (Video)

Greenbelt, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—February 9, 2018 By: Kasha Patel  NASA engineer Manuel Vega can see one of the Olympic ski jump towers from the rooftop of the South Korean weather office where he is stationed. Vega is not watching skiers take flight, preparing for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Paralympic games. Instead,[Read More…]

TRAPPIS ! system

New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres (Video)

CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—February 5, 2018 By: Elizabeth Landau In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40 light-years away. Thanks to data from a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes, we know more about[Read More…]

brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars, NASA, STScI

Hubble Finds Substellar Objects in the Orion Nebula

Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey stars, researchers not only found several very-low-mass brown dwarf[Read More…]

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