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Space

New Horizons spacecraft
APL hosts New Horizons talk
Published July 15, 2013
Alan Stern, lead investigator for NASA's mission to Pluto, will speak on July 23
Space
APL staffer selected for NASA astronaut training
Published June 25, 2013
Christina Hammock created complex scientific instruments bound for space. Now, as one of eight new NASA astronaut candidates, she has her own chance to explore the stars.
Emissions testing
Shedding light on black holes
Published June 14, 2013 Video
Researchers solve mystery of high-power X-ray light emissions
Noise reduction
Published May 20, 2013 Video
JHU undergraduates help design space stethoscope for NASA that tunes out ambient sound
Saturn moon topography
Moon shots
Titan, bumps and all
Published May 16, 2013
APL-led team creates first topographic map of Saturn's largest moon / Applied Physics Laboratory
Distant supernova
Outta sight
Stellar discovery
Published April 4, 2013
Johns Hopkins team uses Hubble to discover farthest known supernova
Voyager 1
Those old models? Wrong
Published Spring 2013
Thirty-five years into a four-year mission, Voyager is still making surprising discoveries / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Idea: Smashing asteroids
Published Spring 2013
If a large asteroid were headed toward Earth, how would we defend ourselves? APL's Andy Cheng has an idea / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Belt expansion
Published Feb 28, 2013
APL-built spacecraft discover previously undetected third radiation belt around Earth / Applied Physics Laboratory
About space
Cosmic coincidence
Published Feb 15, 2013 Video
Meteor that entered atmosphere over Russia likely unrelated to giant asteroid flyby, Johns Hopkins expert says