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Telescopes to probe the dawn of time Paris (AFP) May 12, 2009 
Visiting the future may remain a sci-fi fantasy, but on Thursday a rocket is set to hoist aloft two European spacecraft designed to probe the distant past... all the way back to the origins of the Universe some 14 billion years ago. With a combined cost of 1.6 billion euros (2.17 billion dollars), the Herschel and Planck telescopes represent Europe's greatest-ever investment in orbital astro ... 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 The Crowded Universe 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 12, 2009Planets, planets everywhere. Many have been detected in our cosmic neighborhood, but none of them resemble our own. One planet guru thinks that is about to change. He argues in his new book that we are on the verge of uncovering a universe crowded with Earths. Alan Boss, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is well-known for his work on theories of planet formati ... more Hubble To Be Upgraded With e2v CCD Imaging Sensors 
Chelmsford, UK (SPX) May 12, 2009On May 11, 2009 e2v Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensors were launched into space by NASA, on board the space shuttle Atlantis, as part of a mission to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. e2v CCD imaging sensors will equip Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new instrument that will be installed on Hubble to take large-scale, extremely clear and detailed pictures of the univers ... 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 The Camera That Saved Hubble...Twice 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 11, 2009First 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 ... more |
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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 |
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Boulder CO (SPX) May 08, 2009A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder to probe the evolution of galaxies, stars and intergalactic matter from its perch on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is on schedule for its slated May 11 launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA's space shuttle Atlantis. riginally scheduled for launch in 2004, NASA's Hubble Servicing mission has ... more Lessons From Schon - The Worst Physics Fraudster 
Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional construction of the smallest ever transistor, the repercussions of Jan Hendrik Schon's fraud are still felt today, seven years after he was found guilty of scientif ... more Lawmakers To Honor Space Pioneers 
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
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