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 Panaji, India (AFP) Aug 30, 2009 
The head of India's state-run space agency on Sunday hailed the country's first moon mission a success, despite losing contact with the spacecraft. "The mission was a great success," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters in the state capital of Goa, Panaji, where a conference on low-budget space missions opens this week. Nair, who sai ... read more 
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 31, 2009Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), of which the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council is a partner, have captured a stunning new image of the Trifid Nebula, showing just why it is a firm favorite of astronomers, amateur and professional alike. This massive star factory is so named for the dark dust bands that trisect its glowing heart, and is a rare ... more
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 31, 2009Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of astronomy when a combination of X-ray and optical observations led to the conclusion that it was a black hole, the first such identification. The Cygnus X-1 system consists of a black hole with a ... more 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 29, 2009India's first moon mission, launched amid much fanfare last year, came to an abrupt end Saturday after controllers lost contact with the country's lunar craft, the national space agency said. India launched an unmanned satellite and put a probe on the moon's surface late last year in an event that the national space agency hoped would give the country international "brand recognition" in the ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009A discovery about the moon made in the 1960s is helping researchers unlock secrets about Earth's ocean today. By applying a method of calculating gravity that was first developed for the moon to data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, known as Grace, JPL researchers have found a way to measure the pressure at the bottom of the ocean. Just as knowing atmospheric pressure a ... more |
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Hilo HI (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Old stars are keys to understanding the nature of the first stars and the earliest stages of the formation of the universe. Observations with the Subaru Telescope, fitted with its High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS), have yielded data about the chemical composition of an old, bright star - BD+44 493 - that shed light on how the early stars may have developed during the infancy of the universe. ... more  
Hanover NH (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the Physical Review Letters, the flagship journal of the American Physical Society, Dartmouth researchers propose a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory on a much-tinier scale ... more  
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2009Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found. By comparing proteins present in more than 3000 different prokaryotes - a type of single-celled organism without a nucleus - molecular biologist James A. Lake from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for ... more |
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