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Sky-Map Site To Show The Beauty Of The Universe To Everybody Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2007 
Technological progress has altered many of the ways in which humans live, but has done little to change human beings themselves. Man has been trying to find his place in the world for thousands of years. We are still eager to understand our role in the universe and the universe itself. That is why it is hard enough to find a person who would stay indifferent or apathetic to the questions of cosm ... read more |
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AAS Supports Emergency NASA Appropriations
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2006The American Astronomical Society has announced it is supporting the efforts of Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, to secure emergency appropriations for NASA's science efforts. "NASA science is fundamental to the Vision for Space Exploration," said J. Craig Wheeler, the AAS president, in a statement. "By introducing this amendment, Senators Hutchison and ... more Mikulski NASA Amendment Passes Key Senate Committee 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2006Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., senior minority member of the Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations subcommittee, announced Friday that the full Appropriations Committee has approved her amendment to the 2007 CJS spending bill, offered with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, chairwoman of the Science and Space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, to provide $1 billion in feder ... more Astronomers Find Nearby Galactic Highway 
Calgary, Alberta (SPX) Jun 09, 2006Astronomers have discovered a long, slender stream of ancient stars racing across the northern sky. The stream is about 30,000 light-years from Earth and flowing high over the Milky Way at some 230 kilometers per second, or more than half a million miles per hour. The discovery was made by Canadian astronomer Carl Grillmair and his colleague Odysseas Dionatos from the Astronomical Observat ... more Researchers Find Hidden Greek Text On Oldest Astronomy Computer 
Athens (AFP) Jun 07, 2006The size of a shoebox, a mysterious bronze device scooped out of a Roman-era shipwreck at the dawn of the 20th century has baffled scientists for years. Now a British researcher has stunningly established it as the world's oldest surviving astronomy computer. A team of Greek and British scientists probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism has managed to decipher ancient Greek inscri ... more American Astronomical Society Releases Statement On Alma 
Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2006The American Astronomical Society, representing more than 6500 astronomers from the US and abroad, released the following statement on the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). This instrument is under construction in Chile and is a joint project of North America and Europe with future anticipated participation from Japan. The statement has been made in response to the support for the pr ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Mar 24, 2006A team of astronomers from Boston University's Institute for Astrophysical Research has produced the clearest map to-date of the giant gas clouds in the Milky Way that serve as the birthplaces of stars. Using a powerful telescope, the astronomers tracked emissions of a rare form of carbon monoxide called 13CO to chart a portion of our home galaxy and its star-forming molecular clouds. The ... more VLT Finds Very Cool Brown Dwarf In The Neighborhood 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 22, 2006Astronomers have discovered a unique brown dwarf located, relatively speaking, right in the solar neighborhood. The rare object, designated SCR 1845-6357B, is only 12.7 light years away, circling a primary star that itself was discovered only recently in the southern hemisphere constellation Pavo, the Peacock. Only one other brown dwarf system has been found closer to Earth, and it is only ... more Aurora Season Begins 
Hadley MA (SPX) Mar 21, 2006"The kids started screaming when the sky changed. Even the teens were excited," says Rick Thayer of Hadley, Massachusetts. He and his family (including 6 teenagers from a nearby birthday party) were outdoors at sunset on Sept 7th 2005 when a solar wind gust hit Earth's magnetic field. The impact triggered colorful Northern Lights that people saw all the way from Europe to the western US. " ... more Astronomers Weigh Adopted Twin Brown Dwarfs 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2006Astronomers for the first time have precisely measured the mass of a pair of elusive brown dwarfs, and the data from the twin objects&endash;not quite big enough to be stars, but too large to be planets&endash;match well with theoretical predictions. "These two brown dwarfs provide the first translation between their masses and their other physical properties," team leader Keivan Stassun of ... more Deriving The Shape Of The Galactic Stellar Disc 
Padua, Italy (SPX) Mar 17, 2006While analysing the complex structure of the Milky Way, an international team of astronomers from Italy and the United Kingdom has recently derived the shape of the Galactic outer stellar disc, and provided the strongest evidence that, besides being warped, it is at least 70% more extended than previously thought. Their findings will be reported in an upcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophy ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Nov 09, 2005Europe's first mission to Venus was successfully launched Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and emitted a first signal at the start of its 163-day journey to the turbulent planet. The Venus Express probe separated from the Soyuz Fregat carrier around 90 minutes after the 0333 GMT blast-off on the first expedition to Earth's closest neighbour in over 10 years. "A perf ... more Venus Express Countdown Activities Started 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (ESA) Nov 09, 2005All final countdown activities for the launch of ESA's Venus Express spacecraft, planned for tomorrow, 9 November at 04:33 Central European Time (CET), have started. The 'countdown team', composed of specialists from ESA and industrial partners from Astrium SAS and Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, moved to the bunker near the launch pad at 18:00 CET, from where Venus Express will be made ready f ... more Venus Express Team In Launch Countdown 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (ESA) Nov 08, 2005At 07:00 CET Monday, the Venus Express mission clock began ticking down to Wednesday's launch. The excitement at ESOC and particularly in the Main Control Room is palpable as launch preparations get under way. Throughout Monday, the Mission Control Team (MCT) ran through final checks and verifications. This is no simulation: the communications loop is live; the tracking stations are on net, ... more Pre-Launch Sequence 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (ESA) Nov 07, 2005After the completion of the activities of 5 November, the first day on the launch pad, the spacecraft was switched-off, and only a small "baby-sitting" team remained in the bunker over night to be able to cover any contingency situations. 6 November started with the arrival of the countdown team at the Venus Express bunker next to the launch pad at 10:00 (04:00 UTC) in the morning. Preparati ... more Lost And Found: Earth Reaches Out To Love-Lorn Venus 
Paris (AFP) Nov 06, 2005Poor Venus. The twinkling planet named after the Goddess of Love has a relationship with Man that is as turbulent as a plot in an airport novel. For years, her beauty was the stuff of dreams. Then, when that beauty was stripped away to reveal horror, she was abandoned. Now Earth wants to reach out to her once more. If all goes well, at 0333 GMT on Wednesday, a Russian rocket will ... more
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