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KAGUYA Captures First Successful Shooting Of A Full Earth-Rise Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2008 
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) successfully captured a movie of the "Full Earth-Rise"*1 using the onboard High Definition Television (HDTV) of the lunar explorer "KAGUYA " (SELENE) on April 6, 2008 (Japan Standard Time, JST, all the following dates and time are JST.) The KAGUYA is currently flying in a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 10 ... read more |
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Solar Flares Set The Sun Quaking
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 21, 2008Data from the ESA/NASA spacecraft SOHO shows clearly that powerful starquakes ripple around the Sun in the wake of mighty solar flares that explode above its surface. The observations give solar physicists new insight into a long-running solar mystery and may even provide a way of studying other stars. The outermost quarter of the Sun's interior is a constantly churning maelstrom of hot ga ... more Moondust And Duct Tape 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 22, 2008At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same way. The sound of gray tape being torn from rolls practically filled the race course as dozens of college and high school student engineers busily assembled and repaired their homemade moonbu ... more New NASA Moon Mission Begins Integration Of Science Instruments 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2008Several instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface have been installed on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The powerful equipment will bring the moon into sharper focus and reveal new insights about the celestial body nearest Earth. Engineers and technicians on the LRO Integration and Test Team work almost around the clock in a clean room at NASA's Goddard ... more Saturn Images Showcased In New York City 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008A selection of the best images from Saturn, its rings and moons will appear in an exhibition opening on April 26 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The show, called "Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission," will run through March 29, 2009. It features dramatic, up-close-and-personal images in small individual views and super-large mosaics. Roughly 50 image ... more Is There Anybody Out There 
Norwich, UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2008Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such as humans to evolve and the remaining life span of Earth. Structurally complex and intelligent life evolved late ... more |
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Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 16, 2008A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University has found that gravitational radiation-widely expected to provide "smoking gun" proof for a theory of the early universe known as "inflation"-can be produced by another mechanism. According to physics scholars, inflation theory proposes that the universe underwent a period of exponential expansion right after the big bang. A key ... more Astronomers Listen To An Exoplanet-Host Star And Find Its Birthplace 
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 16, 2008By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of our Milky Way. The yellow-orange star Iota Horologii, located 56 light-years away towards the ... more Confusion Over Asteroid Calculation Sorted As NASA Issues Clarification 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 16, 2008A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdame ... more German whizzkid got it wrong: NASA 
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2008It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to be wrong, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday. The agency, sounding a bit like a weary math ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called Omega Centauri, this sparkling orb of stars is like a miniature galaxy. It is the biggest and brightest of the more than 150 similar objects, called globular clusters, that orbit around the outside of our Milky Way galaxy. Stargazers at southern latitudes can spot the stellar ge ... more Moondust In The Wind 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 14, 2008Moondust is dry, desiccated stuff, and may seem like a dull topic to write about. Indeed, you could search a ton of moondust without finding a single molecule of water, so it could make for a pretty "dry" story. But like the dust in your mother's attic, moondust covers something interesting - the moon - and even the dust itself has curious tales to tell. A group of NASA and University of ... more The Coldest Brown Dwarf Ever Observed: Closing The Gap Between Stars And Planets 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 14, 2008An international team of astronomers has discovered the coldest brown dwarf star ever observed. This finding, to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, is a new step toward filling the gap between stars and planets. An international team led by French and Canadian astronomers has just discovered the coldest brown dwarf ever observed. Their results will soon be published in Astronomy a ... more New Rocky Planet Found In Constellation Leo 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2008Spanish and UCL (University College London) scientists have discovered a possible terrestrial-type planet orbiting a star in the constellation of Leo. The new planet, which lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth, has a mass five times that of our planet but is the smallest found to date. One full day on the new planet would be equivalent to three weeks on Earth. The team of as ... more
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