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Hubble To Get First Battery Replacement In 19 Years Detroit MI (SPX) May 08, 2009 
EaglePicher Technologies has been one of NASA's most trusted suppliers since America's early days in Space-from powering launches, to helping astronomers see deeper into the unknown-its technology is relied on time and time again. A great example of the company's proven reliability is the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been powered by EaglePicher's nickel hydrogen batteries since its la ... read more
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Jeffrey Hoffman On Fixing The Hubble Space Telescope
Boston MA (SPX) May 07, 2009"3 Questions" gives members of the community the opportunity to sound off on current events in their field of expertise. Jeffrey Hoffman, professor of the practice in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is a former space shuttle astronaut whose five flights included the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission in 1993. He offered his thoughts on what the next repair cre ... more Outer Space Oreos 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 08, 2009Outer space is known to be unfriendly to biology, but it has been hard to determine just how long it takes for life and life-related compounds to be negatively affected. A new research project plans to monitor samples of organic compounds and living organisms as they orbit the Earth in a small satellite. The hope is that this will give astrobiology researchers vital data about chemical evo ... more Precursors Of Life Maybe Lost In Space 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) May 08, 2009Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new detail in the warm clouds of gas and dust around young stars. He hopes to gain insights into how organic molecules form in space, and possibly, how life formed on Earth. "The chemis ... more The Asteroids Are Coming 
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 04, 2009This isn't just "buzz" to get you excited about a new movie coming; we really are being buzzed by asteroids and other NEOs (Near Earth Objects), and one day these conjunctions could become collisions! There are lots of NEOs out there orbiting the sun. Some, like comets, are less worrisome since they are composed primarily of ice and small, rocky particles that dissipate upon entering Earth ... more Study Plunges Standard Theory Of Cosmology Into Crisis 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2009As modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous "dark matter" to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, much effort has gone into the detection of this mysterious substance in the last two decades, yet no direct proof could be found that it actually exists. Even if it does exist, dark matter would be unable to reconcile all the current discrepancies between actual measuremen ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009This coming July 20 marks the 40th anniversary of men first landing on another celestial body. And in looking back at this historic time, lawmakers from the state that's home to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) want the nation to honor two major firsts from the early days of America's space program, starting with the lunar landing. Florida's two U.S. senators, joined by three of their House co ... more World Premiere Of Touching The Edge Of The Universe 
Paris, France (ESA) May 07, 2009ESA will present the world premiere of Touching the Edge of the Universe, a stunning new planetarium show, starting 7 May 2009 at 30 planetaria in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The premiere comes just days before the launch of Herschel and Planck, two of the show's starring missions, scheduled for 14 May. Both missions will make fundamental contributions to astronomy and cosmology and ... more Michigan Astronomer To Search In Space For Precursors Of Life 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) May 07, 2009Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new detail in the warm clouds of gas and dust around young stars. They hope to gain insights into how organic molecules form in space, and possibly, how life formed on Earth. "The chemi ... more NASA's Fermi Explores High-Energy "Space Invaders" 
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2009Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away. At the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, Colo., Fermi scientists have revealed new details about high-energy particles implicated in a nearby cosmic mystery. "Fermi's Large Area Telesc ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) May 05, 2009Deepest photograph of the universe. Hubble's famous "Deep Field" picture, taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, left the world with its mouth agape when it was first revealed in 1996. In just a small patch of sky, more than 1,000 galaxies located billions of light-years away could be seen floating in space like sea creatures at the bottom of an endless ocean. Our world and our ga ... more Watching Solar Activity Muddle Earth's Magnetic Field 
Paris, France (ESA) May 05, 2009Scientists have found that extreme solar activity drastically compresses the magnetosphere and modifies the composition of ions in near-Earth space. They are now looking to model how these changes affect orbiting satellites, including the GPS system. The results were obtained from coordinated in-situ measurements performed by ESA's four Cluster satellites along with the two Chinese/ESA Dou ... more Servicing Mission 4 - The Fifth And Final Visit To Hubble 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 04, 2009On 11 May 2009 the Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch with a crew of seven to visit the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and carry out the fifth and final servicing mission. The replacement and repair of several instruments will see Hubble equipped to continue its program of discovery well into the next decade. The combination of Hubble's powerful suite of instruments and its position far a ... more Rogue Black Holes May Roam Milky Way 
Boston, UK (SPX) May 04, 2009It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way. Good news, howev ... more
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