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a timely reality check |
 Washington (AFP) July 5, 2009 
Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong realized the oldest dream of human civilizations when he became the first man to walk on the moon. As an estimated 500 million people around the world waited with bated breath crowded around fuzzy television screens and radios, Armstrong stepped down the lunar module's ladder and onto the lunar surface. "That's one small ... read more 
Amado AZ (SPX) Jul 06, 2009An international collaboration of 390 scientists reports the discovery of an outburst of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma radiation from the giant radio galaxy Messier 87 (M87), accompanied by a strong rise of the radio flux measured from the direct vicinity of its supermassive black hole. The combined results give first experimental evidence that particles are accelerated to extremely high ... more
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 06, 2009Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05 degrees C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2. Planck is equipped with a passive cooling system that brings its temperature down to about ... more 
Manoa HI (SPX) Jul 06, 2009Two University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral student Rita Mann and Dr. Jonathan Williams used the Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to make the observations. A binary star system consists of two stars bound together by ... more 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009At the start of the Obama administration, our young and energetic president made clear that NASA must shed its ennui and business as usual attitude and get back to executing some bold and daring projects. He appointed a transition team to look into changes. At that time, I recall there was talk of bringing various seemingly disparate agencies and departments together, especially the ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009The power of computer processing could one day solve the riddle of life's origin. Scientists think life appeared about 4 billion years ago, and ancient rocks on Earth can give us some idea of what the environment was like. Life may have originated in an ocean rich in chemicals. This primordial soup may have been simmering, or it may have been zapped by lightning. Certainly energy of some ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2009NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras - a low resolution Wide Angle Camera and a high resolution Narrow Angle Camera. Collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, they were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009As the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) reaches its six-month milestone, over a million people have already looked at the sky through a telescope for the first time, and even more have newly engaged in astronomy. This is just one of many achievements, as countless ongoing projects and planned initiatives indicate that the IYA2009 is well on the way towards achieving many of its goa ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2009In 2008, Ulysses was expected to cease functioning due to weakening power. But solid engineering know-how and on-the-fly innovation have eked out an additional year of important science returns, which has come to an end. Ulysses, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter mission, finally ended when ground controllers sent commands to shut down the satellite's communications. The event marks the con ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 1, 2009Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies. Their find - a black hole more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, on the fringe of galaxy ESO 243-249 - is reported in the latest issue of Nature, the British-based science journal. In terms of size, it lies ... more |
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