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 New York NY (SPX) Aug 19, 2009 
Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle [Abrams; November 2009; hardcover], by author and filmmaker Michael Benson, assembles an outstanding collection of astronomical images from observatories around the world and in space. This fantastically illustrated and authoritatively written journey into the universe arrives in November 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, and the 400th anniversary of the ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2009GOES- 14, formerly GOES-O, has achieved another significant milestone with the release of the first formal Solar Image from the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI). The engineering and operations team has finished its initial instrument calibration and alignments and produced the image of the sun on August 13, 2009 at approximately 10:05 EDT. The SXI instrument is built by Lockheed Martin Advanced ... more
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 17, 2009A team of scientists in Australia and the United States, led by Associate Professor Miroslav Filipovic from the University of Western Sydney, have discovered a new class of object which they call "Super Planetary Nebulae." They report their work in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Planetary nebulae are shells of gas and dust expelled by stars near the end of ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 18, 2009Will the universe expand outward for all of eternity and end in a vast, dark, cold, sterile, diffuse nothingness? Or will the "Big Bang" - the gargantuan explosion that formed the universe 14 billion years ago - end in the "Big Crunch?" Planets, stars and galaxies all hurtle inward and collapse into an incredibly hot, dense mass a billion times smaller than the period at the end of this ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 18, 2009NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. "Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet," said Dr. Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our discovery supports the ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2009"Why is the sun's corona so darned hot?" asks James Klimchuk, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Solar Physics Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. The mystery of why temperatures in the solar corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, soar to several million degrees Kelvin (K) -much hotter than temperatures nearer the sun's surface-has puzzled scientists for decades. New observations ... more  
Beijing, China (China Daily) Aug 17, 2009Ouyang Ziyuan, academician at China Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of China's moon exploration project, talked with China Daily's Ma Chao about Chang'e 1, the first spacecraft sent by China to the lunar orbit as well as the future of China's exploration of the moon. CD: Between October 2007 and March of this year, the Chang'e 1 spacecraft circled the moon for nearly 18 months. ... more 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 13, 2009In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon. Going further than any explorers before them, they gazed at the barren, cratered landscape beneath them, saw the Moon's far side with their own eyes, and took some history-making photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. On Christmas Eve, the crew made a live television broadcast to millions of ... more |
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