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NASA Sets Sights On Lunar Dust Exploration Mission Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2008 
NASA is preparing to send a small spacecraft to the moon in 2011 to assess the lunar atmosphere and the nature of dust lofted above the surface. Called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the mission will launch before the agency's moon exploration activities accelerate during the next decade. LADEE will gather detailed information about conditions near the surface ... read more |
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Witnessing The Formation Of Distant Galaxies
London, UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2008UK astronomers have produced the most sensitive infrared map of the distant Universe ever undertaken. Combining data over a period of three years, they have produced an image containing over 100,000 galaxies over an area four times the size of the full Moon. Some of the first results from this project will be presented by Dr Sebastien Foucaud from the University of Nottingham ... more Quasars Quash Star Formation In Active Galactic Nuclei 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2008An ambitious study of active and inactive galaxies has given new insights into the complex interaction between super-massive black holes at the heart of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and star formation in the surrounding galaxy. Results will be presented in a talk by Paul Westoby at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast. Along with colleagues, Carole Mundell and Ivan Baldry from ... more Old Galaxies Stick Together In The Young Universe 
Nottingham, UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2008Using the most sensitive images ever obtained with the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT), astronomers have found convincing evidence that galaxies which look old early in the history of the Universe reside in enormous clouds of invisible dark matter and will eventually evolve into the most massive galaxies that exist in the present day. University of Nottingham PhD student Will ... more The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 08, 2008Not one of the participants in NASA's 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race was old enough to have seen the 1969 movie, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies. Nevertheless, the racers all looked like stars of that film as they careened about the simulated lunar terrain race course in a motley variety of strange vehicles. These high school and college students, representing 20 states, Puerto ... more IU Asteroid Program Records Final Chapter 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 08, 2008The Indiana Asteroid Program began with a borrowed lens and a bet over a chocolate ice cream cone. Almost 60 years later, its final chapter was written with the naming of a heavenly body after one of the most dedicated staff members Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Astronomy has ever seen. The program -- launched in 1949 by Hoosier astronomy legend Frank Edmondson -- aimed to ... more |
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Manchester, UK (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Researchers at The University of Manchester have used graphene to measure an important and mysterious fundamental constant - and glimpse the foundations of the universe. The researchers from The School of Physics and Astronomy, led by Professor Andre Geim, have found that the world's thinnest material absorbs a well-defined fraction of visible light, which allows the direct determination of the ... more UMaine Engineering Team To Test Inflatable Habitats For NASA Moon Mission 
Orono ME (SPX) Apr 04, 2008NASA faces many challenges in its quest to establish a colony on the moon by 2020, and providing suitable shelter for the next generation of space explorers is at the top of the list. An inflatable lunar habitat, one of several concepts now on the drawing boards, must be lightweight and flexible enough to minimize packaging size and transportation costs. Once deployed, the expanded structure ... more Black Hole Found In Omega Centauri 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 04, 2008Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behind omega Centauri's peculiarities may be a black hole hidden in its centre. One implication of the discovery is that it is very likely that omega Centauri is not a globular cluster at all, but ... more Northrop Grumman Awarded Five Study Contracts For NextGen Astronomy Missions 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Northrop Grumman is a partner on five contracts awarded by NASA to investigate concepts for next-generation space telescopes. The concepts include a powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, three planet finding missions, and a futuristic x-ray space telescope. The study results will be submitted for consideration to the scientific community during the upcoming National Academy of ... more |
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Irvine CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2008UC Irvine scientists have discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that is 11.4 billion light years from Earth - the farthest of its kind ever to be detected. These galaxies are so distant that the universe was in its infancy when their light was emitted. The galaxy proto-cluster, named LBG-2377, is giving scientists an unprecedented look at galaxy formation and ... more Advanced LIGO Project Funded By National Science Foundation 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2008The Advanced LIGO Project, an upgrade in sensitivity for LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories), was approved by the National Science Board in its meeting on March 27. The National Science Foundation will fund the $205.12 million, seven-year project, starting with $32.75 million in 2008. This major upgrade will increase the sensitivity of the LIGO instruments by a ... more Focused Solar Explosions Get Hotter 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2008A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused". "A flare typically divides its energy between directly heating the solar atmosphere and accelerating particles," said Dr. Ryan Milligan of the Oak Ridge Association of Universities, Tennessee, who is stationed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ... more Scientists Discover 10 New Planets Outside Solar System 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2008An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these other worlds, some of which are quite exotic. The system is expected to revolutionize scientific understanding of how planets form. Two participating astronomers from the U.S. ... more
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