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The Camera That Saved Hubble...Twice Pasadena CA (SPX) May 11, 2009 
First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things are definitely changing. On day four of the upcoming shuttle servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope, there will be another such significant first motion. It will begin when a bolt that has ... read more
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NOAA Predicts Mild Solar Storm Season
Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2009Although its peak is still four years away, a new active period of Earth-threatening solar storms will be the weakest since 1928, predicts an international panel of experts led by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center and funded by NASA. Despite the prediction, Earth is still vulnerable to a severe solar storm. Solar storms are eruptions of energy and matter that escape from the sun and ... more Creating The Astro-Comb To Locate Earth-Like Planets 
Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2009Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists are now able to examine hundreds of solar systems. Now researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. have created an "astro-comb" to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant stars. The Harvard group will pr ... more Hubble's WFPC2 Takes Final Photographs Of A Planetary Nebula 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 11, 2009The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, which was developed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., a planetary nebula has been imaged as the camera's final "pretty picture." This planetary nebula is known as Ko ... more Hubble To Receive High-Tech JWST Technology 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 11, 2009Scientists and engineers now creating new technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have realized they can be used to enhance the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing mission. One piece of new technology astronauts will be installing in Hubble during Servicing Mission 4 in May, 2009 is a small, specialized integrated circuit called an Application ... more Hubble To Get First Battery Replacement In 19 Years 
Detroit MI (SPX) May 08, 2009EaglePicher 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 ... more |
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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 Star Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel 
Bloomington IN (SPX) May 07, 2009Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. Charles Horowitz, a professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics, came to the conclusion after large-scale molecular dynamics computer simulations were conducted at Indiana Un ... more Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies Are a Global Affair 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) May 07, 2009Bursts of star making in a galaxy have been compared to a Fourth of July fireworks display: They occur at a fast and furious pace, lighting up a region for a short time before winking out. But these fleeting starbursts are only pieces of the story, astronomers say. An analysis of archival images of small, or dwarf, galaxies taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests that starbursts, ... more |
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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 Magnesium Detected During Second Flyby Of Mercury 
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 05, 2009NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium - an element created inside exploding stars and which is found in many medicine cabinets on Earth - clumped in the tenuous atmosphere of the planet. Scientists had suspected magnesium would be present, but were surprised ... more
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