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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2009 
An international team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, has taken the sharpest view of a dying mammoth star ever made. For the first time they could show, how the gas is moving in different areas over the surface of a distant star. This was made possible by combining three 1.8 m telescopes as an interferometer, giving the ... read more 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2009The Hinode satellite observing our sun captured images of the moon traversing the face of the sun during a solar eclipse this week. On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, a total eclipse of the Sun was visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow began in India and crossed through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After le ... more
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Paris (AFP) July 29, 2009A day on Saturn is pretty short, and it just got shorter. The time it takes the beringed behemoth to complete a spin on its axis has just been calculated by astrophysicists at 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds, more than five minutes shorter than previous estimates. A planet comprising clouds of gas driven by layers of mighty jetstreams, Saturn has no lasting visual landmarks as a rock ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2009At the most recent NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, a panel of scientists discussed different types of planets where we might find alien life. In the fifth segment of this series, the panelists address questions from the audience about the search for life on Mars and elsewhere. Tori Hoehler: I think the question of manned exploration crystallizes around Mars. That's the one tha ... more  
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2009Sensing technology developed by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system has begun its one-year mission to determine whether the polar regions of the moon contain ice. Launched aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter June 18 and activated July 8, the system, known as Mini-RF, will take high-resolution radar imagery of permanently shaded regions of the moon to ... more |
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Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 27, 2009Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere. As a partner on the IRIS team headed by Lockheed Martin, MSU will receive about $3 million to design an optical system for a telescope that could be launched on a NASA rocket in 2012, said solar physicist Charles Kankelborg. If Lockheed Martin agrees ... more  
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 27, 2009NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration to take the image of a new, expanding spot on the giant planet on July 23. Discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley ... more 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Plumes spewing from a tiny moon of Saturn - a moon roughly the width of Arizona - are filled with molecules that suggest that the moon, Enceladus, is likely another place in the solar system to look for life, Cassini scientist Jonathan Lunine of The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory said. When NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew through a plume erupting from Enceladus early ... more |
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