 |  Mission to Hubble Making Hubble More Powerful Than Ever
On October 10, 2008, astronauts will board the Space Shuttle Atlantis for Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), the final trip to the Hubble Telescope. Over the course of five spacewalks, they will install two new instruments, repair two inactive ones, and perform the component replacements that will keep the...  |
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09-16-2008
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 | NASA to Explore "Secret Layer" of the Sun
Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun. It is, in short, the birthplace of space weather. Researchers hope it is about to yield its secrets. |
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09-15-2008
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09-12-2008
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 | Mind the gap VLT instrument hints at the presence of planets in young gas discs
Astronomers have been able to study planet-forming discs around young Sun-like stars in unsurpassed detail, clearly revealing the motion and distribution of the gas in the inner parts of the disc. This result, which possibly implies the presence of giant planets, was made possible by the... |
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09-09-2008
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 | Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This is further evidence that most of the planet's small, inner moons orbit within partial or complete rings. |
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09-08-2008
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 | Barred Spiral Galaxies Are Latecomers to the Universe
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/1/1/0/1/web_print_279030_thumb.jpgA frequent sign of the maturity of a spiral galaxy is the formation of a ribbon of stars and gas that slices across the nucleus, like the slash across a "no smoking" sign.
In a landmark study of more than 2,000... |
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07-29-2008
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07-12-2008
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| | Ancient impact on Mars
Evidence of an ancient impact on mars explains it's two faced look.
Scientists Think Big Object Whacked Mars - AOL News |
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06-26-2008
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| | Hints of 'time before Big Bang'
A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang.
The discovery comes from studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), light emitted when the Universe was just 400,000 years old.
Their model may help... |
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06-11-2008
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| | Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet
A team of astronomers led by Mark Swain of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. The breakthrough, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is an... |
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03-22-2008
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03-19-2008
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| | The Vanishing Rings of Saturn
Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.
Red Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing.
Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open... |
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03-19-2008
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| | NRL To Design Telescope to See Into the Dark Ages
A team of scientists and engineers led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will study how to design a telescope on the Moon for peering into the last unexplored epoch in the Universe's history. NASA has announced that it will sponsor a series of studies focusing on next-generation... |
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03-13-2008
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| | Cassini Spacecraft to Dive Into Water Plume of Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/cassini_thumb.jpgThe spacecraft, orchestrating its closest approach to date, will skirt along the edges of huge... |
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03-11-2008
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| | Saturn's Moon Rhea Also May Have Rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/rhea_thumb.jpgA broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been... |
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03-06-2008
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| | Spacecraft at Mars Prepare to Welcome New Kid on the Block
Three Mars spacecraft are adjusting their orbits to be over the right place at the right time to listen to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander as it enters the Martian atmosphere on May 25.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/phoenix-lander_thumb.jpgEvery landing on Mars is difficult.... |
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03-04-2008
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| | Total Lunar Eclipse
Tonight, Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse—the last one until Dec. 2010.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/koehn_EST_thumb.jpgThe Sun goes down. The Moon... |
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02-20-2008
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02-19-2008
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| | Astronomers Eye Ultra-Young, Bright Galaxy in Early Universe
NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages," just 700 million years after the beginning of our universe. ... |
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02-16-2008
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| | A Newly Discovered Solar System
A team of international astronomers reports in the Feb. 15 issue of Science the discovery of a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away containing scaled-down versions of Jupiter and Saturn. Their findings suggest that our galaxy could conceivably contain many star systems similar to our... |
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02-15-2008
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