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a timely reality check |
 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 07, 2009 
Two astronomers at The University of Arizona will screen their 45-minute documentary this week on the impact of the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA on the careers of one specific group of astronomers. The film, "Hubble's Diverse Universe," will show this Friday, July 10, at 7 p.m. at the Museum of African-American Technology and Science Village in Oakland, Calif. It will air there a second ... read 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
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 07, 2009CSIRO astronomers have revealed the hidden face of an enormous galaxy called Centaurus A, which emits a radio glow covering an area 200 times bigger than the full Moon. The galaxy's radio waves have been painstakingly transformed into a highly detailed image, which is being unveiled to the public for the first time. Centaurus A lies 14 million light-years away, in the southern ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2009A shining and 'well functioning' Sun is critical for our survival on Earth. The Sun was formed almost five billion years ago. At that time, a gas and dust cloud became so condensed due to its own gravity that hydrogen nuclei began to merge with each other and release huge amounts of energy in a process known as nuclear fusion. Fortunately, the Sun's supply of hydrogen is so great that it ... more 
San Marcos TX (SPX) Jul 07, 2009Famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has long been a favorite of Texas State University-San Marcos faculty members Don Olson and Russell Doescher. In 2003, the physics department researchers connected the blood-red sky of Munch's anguished masterpiece "The Scream" to the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa on the other side of the globe. They turned their attention to Munch's beloved ... 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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Bangalore, India (PTI) Jul 06, 2009India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-II is likely to be launched by 2013, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Saturday. 'Chandrayaan-II should take place by 2013. Our first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-I, has given us a substantial understanding about entering the moon's orbit. But ensuring the safe landing of the rover on the lunar surface is still ... more  
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jul 03, 2009The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $30 million contract to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-Band radars and supporting operations centers that will detect and report on objects and debris orbiting the Earth. Lockheed Martin was one of three industry teams to receive contracts. The Air Force Materiel Command's Electronic Systems Center at Han ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2009Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered a black hole weighing more than 500 solar masses, a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier supermassive black holes, in a distant galaxy. This discovery is the best detection to date of a new class that has long been searched for: intermediate mass black holes. Due to appear tomorrow in the journal Nature, ... more 
Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, "SpARCS" detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrared ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
Oxford Physicists Reach Fourth-Order Quantum Squeezing With Trapped Ion
Sub-Neptunes Vanish Around Red Dwarf Stars in McMaster Exoplanet Survey |
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