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NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Kompasu transitioning over Korea and China
2 September 2010, 4:00 am
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Terra satellite captured the changing Tropical Storm Kompasu over Korea and China very early today, as it makes its way east to northern Japan. It is becoming extratropical.

NASA catches heavy rainfall happening in Category 4 Earl as it approaches the US
2 September 2010, 4:00 am
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Hurricane Earl is still a powerful category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale as it approaches the North Carolina coast today. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the high rates rain was falling within Earl, in some areas more than 2 inches per hour. Today, the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft is also flying into the eye of Hurricane Earl at altitudes of 60,000 feet to gather information about the storm.

NASA sees Depression Nine become Gaston then back to a depression
2 September 2010, 4:00 am
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Depression Nine strengthened yesterday into Tropical Storm Gaston, but today it ran into dry and stable air and weakened back into a depression again.

Bermuda in warnings as the GOES-13 Satellite catches Fiona approaching
2 September 2010, 4:00 am
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Bermuda has warnings up as Tropical Storm Fiona approaches, and GOES-13 satellite imagery from today shows that Fiona, although packing a punch, is a much smaller system that her brother, the Category 4 Hurricane Earl.

Cluster turns the invisible into the visible
2 September 2010, 4:00 am
(European Space Agency) Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental processes that occur across the universe. And there is more work to do.

Hubble observations of supernova reveal composition of 'star guts' pouring out
2 September 2010, 4:00 am
(University of Colorado at Boulder) Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of "star guts" being ejected into space following the explosion, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Recipe for water: Just add starlight
2 September 2010, 4:00 am
(European Space Agency) ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapor.

Infrared NASA image shows strong convection in new Atlantic Depression 9
1 September 2010, 4:00 am
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The Atlantic Ocean is in overdrive this week, and NASA satellite imagery captured the birth of the ninth tropical depression in the central Atlantic Ocean today, trailing to the east of Tropical Storm Fiona.

The superwind galaxy NGC 4666
1 September 2010, 4:00 am
(ESO) The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the center of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 4666 is a remarkable galaxy with very vigorous star formation and an unusual "superwind" of out-flowing gas.

NASA infrared data sees convection building in Fiona's clouds
1 September 2010, 4:00 am
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed some strong convection building in Tropical Storm Fiona, and her maximum sustained winds increased from 40 mph yesterday to 60 mph this morning.