 |  Big Red Eye is Ready
The world's biggest infrared camera for Europe's newest telescope left the UK today for Chile. The 67 million pixel camera will equip VISTA - a UK provided survey telescope being constructed in Chile for ESO. VISTA will map the infrared sky faster than any previous telescope, studying areas...  |
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01-19-2007
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| | SOHO prepares for comet McNaught
Recently, sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere have been enjoying the sight of Comet McNaught in the twilight sky. Now, solar physicists using the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft are getting ready for their view. For four days in January, the comet will pass through SOHO's line of sight and could... |
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01-13-2007
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| | Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of "Clumpy" Dark Matter in 3-D
An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created the first three-dimensional map of the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the universe.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/1/1/0/1/Dist-dark-matter_thumb.jpgDark matter is an invisible form... |
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01-11-2007
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| | Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality"
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/1/1/0/1/web_printnow_thumb.jpgHubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys gleaned these new observations during a... |
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01-10-2007
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| | Astronomers Map a Hypergiant Star's Massive Outbursts
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, Kameula, Hawaii, astronomers have learned that the gaseous outflow from one of the brightest super-sized stars in the sky is more complex than originally thought. ... |
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01-08-2007
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| | Google Joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project
Google has joined a group of nineteen universities and national labs that are building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/LSST_thumb.jpgScheduled to begin operations in 2013, the 8.4-meter LSST will be able to survey the entire visible... |
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01-07-2007
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| | X-ray evidence supports possible new class of supernova
Evidence for a significant new class of supernova has been found with the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These results strengthen the case for a population of stars that evolve rapidly and are destroyed by thermonuclear explosions. Such... |
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01-06-2007
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| | Titan Has Liquid Lakes
Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan in this week's journal Nature cover story.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/titan_liquid_thumb.jpgRadar imaging data from a July 22, 2006, flyby provide... |
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01-04-2007
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| | True Fakes: Scientists make simulated lunar soil
Life is tough for a humble grain of dirt on the surface of the Moon. It's peppered with cosmic rays, exposed to solar flares, and battered by micrometeorites--shattered, vaporized and re-condensed countless times over the billions of years. Adding insult to injury, Earthlings want to strip... |
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01-01-2007
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| | NASA Telescope Picks Up Glow of Universe's First Objects
New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the Universe. The recent data indicate this patchy light is splattered across the entire sky and comes from clusters of... |
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12-21-2006
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| | NIST Math Technique Opens Clearer Window on Universe
A fast, efficient image enhancement technique developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and originally applied to improving monochrome microscope images has proved itself equally effective at the other end of the scale- sharpening details on color images of... |
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12-14-2006
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| | Mars Express scientists find a different Mars underneath
With results that the principal investigator of the Mars Express MARSIS radar, Giovanni Picardi, from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', describes as unprecedented, Mars is showing scientists that it has an older, craggier face buried beneath its surface. ... |
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12-13-2006
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| | Do Galaxies Follow Darwinian Evolution?
Using VIMOS on ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of French and Italian astronomers have shown the strong influence the environment exerts on the way galaxies form and evolve.
The scientists have for the first time charted remote parts of the Universe, showing that the distribution... |
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12-11-2006
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| | NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/pia09028_thumb.jpg"These observations give the strongest evidence to date that... |
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12-07-2006
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| | Hubble finds evidence for dark matter in early universe
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present for most of the universe's history. Dark energy is a mysterious repulsive force that causes the universe to expand at an increasing rate. ... |
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12-04-2006
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| | 2006 Transit of Mercury
Mark your calendar: On Wednesday, Nov 8th, the planet Mercury will pass directly in front the Sun. The transit begins at 2:12 pm EST (11:12 am PST) and lasts for almost five hours. Good views can be had from the Americas, Hawaii, Australia and all along the Pacific Rim: visibility map. ... |
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11-08-2006
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| | Spitzer and Hubble Create A Colorful Masterpiece
A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet and visible-light colors. It was "painted" by hundreds of baby stars on a canvas of gas... |
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11-07-2006
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10-31-2006
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| | 1000 days on Mars
NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will finish its 1,000th Martian day Thursday, continuing a successful mission originally planned for 90 Martian days.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/PIA01907_thumb.jpgA color 360-degree panorama released today -- produced from... |
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10-26-2006
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| | Hubble Yields Direct Proof of Stellar Sorting in a Globular Cluster
Imagine trying to understand how a football game works based on just a few fuzzy snapshots of the game in play. Astronomers have faced this challenge when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the beehive swarm of stars in the globular star clusters that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy. ... |
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10-24-2006
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