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Shanghai's Own Moon Vehicle Passes Test Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008 
Shanghai has developed a lunar rover that it hopes to be chosen for China's first moon landing in 2013, the city government announced yesterday. The Shanghai Science and Technology Commission said the key technology of the rover has passed a technical appraisal by the government. The technology mainly covers the rover's maneuverability and detection sensors. The rover, which hasn't been gi ... read more |
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Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team Appointed By ESA
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 28, 2008An expert advisory team has been appointed by ESA with the purpose of advising the Agency on the best scientific and technological roadmap to pursue in order to address one of the most exciting goals in modern astrophysics: the characterization of terrestrial exo-planets (up to the possible detection of biomarkers). The Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team (EPR-AT) will consult with the scient ... more Galaxies Gone Wild 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2008Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures. Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on oth ... more Plan To Identify Watery Earth-Like Planets Develops 
Erie PA (SPX) Apr 25, 2008Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by researchers at Penn State and the University of Hawaii. "We are looking for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of their star, a band not too hot nor too cold for life to exist," says Darren M. Williams ... more KAGUYA Captures First Successful Shooting Of A Full Earth-Rise 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2008The 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 ... more GLOBE At Night 2008 Results A Solid Step Toward IYA 2009 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2008The international star-hunting activity known as GLOBE at Night inspired 6,838 measurements of night-sky brightness by citizen scientists around the world, including 660 digital measurements using handheld sky-quality meters. The third edition of GLOBE at Night was held from February 25-March 8, with assistance from the educational outreach networks of the Astronomical Society of the Pacif ... more |
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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 The Moon And The Magnetotail 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 18, 2008Behold the full Moon. Ancient craters and frozen lava seas lie motionless under an airless sky of profound quiet. It's a slow-motion world where even a human footprint may last millions of years. Nothing ever seems to happen there. Right? Wrong. NASA-supported scientists have realized that something does happen every month when the Moon gets a lashing from Earth's magnetic tail. "Earth's ... more |
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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 Milky Way's Giant Black Hole Awoke From Slumber 300 Years Ago 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2008Using NASA, Japanese, and European X-ray satellites, a team of Japanese astronomers has discovered that our galaxy's central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago. The finding helps resolve a long-standing mystery: why is the Milky Way's black hole so quiescent? The black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"), is a certified monster, containing about 4 million t ... more
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