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 Paris, France (ESA) Oct 29, 2009 
Satellite operations for the CoRoT mission have been extended until 31 March 2013. The decision by the French Space Agency, CNES, and the mission partners, including ESA, was taken on 23 October at a specially convened meeting at the CNES Headquarters in Paris. Launched in December 2006, with a nominal lifetime of 3 years, CoRoT has steadily pursued its dual mission objectives of searching ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 29, 2009Following the first and primary trajectory correction manoeuvre 22 October, Rosetta is lined up nicely for the approach to Earth. The manoeuvre provided an 8.8 cm/s change in orbital velocity and the thruster performance was accurate. Closest approach to Earth is now scheduled for 08:45 CET on 13 November. The results of last Thursday's trajectory correction manoeuvre (TCM) have been ... more
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2009During its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope mapped the extreme sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. It captured more than 1,000 discrete sources of gamma rays - the highest-energy form of light. Capping these achievements was a measurement that provided rare experimental evidence about the very structure of space and time, unified as space-time ... more 
Mount Pleasant MI (SPX) Oct 29, 2009Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. "This panorama image shows ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2009The first of a series of lectures to be delivered by the world's topmost scientists, a new Internet project of Dmitry Zimin's Dynasty Foundation and RIA Novosti, has been shown. The lectures are part of the ongoing project, Science without Borders, organized by the Dynasty Foundation and RIA Novosti's Mosaics of Knowledge club. The first lecturer was Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather. ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2009Astronomers know the answer and would therefore have been able to answer the One-Million-Euro question in the 250th episode of Gunter Jauch's hit TV show 'Wer wird Million�r?' (Who wants to be a millionaire?): What is an eclipsing binary? An eclipsing binary is a special binary star system. A binary star is a system comprising two stars which lie close to one another and which move around ... more  
Riga, Latvia (RIA Novosti) Oct 26, 2009No one was injured after a meteorite fell near a small town in northern Latvia on Sunday, local Latvian media reported. According to media reports, the meteorite fell near a residential house on the outskirts of Mazsalaca town in the Valmiera district of Latvia, leaving a crater of some 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter and 10 meters (33 feet) deep. A spokesperson for the Latvian State Fire ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 26, 2009Right now, the Moon is a ghost town. Nothing stirs. Here and there, an abandoned Apollo rover - or the dusty base of a lunar lander - linger as silent testimony to past human activity. But these days, only occasional asteroid impacts disrupt the decades-long spell of profound stillness. And this stillness presents scientists with an important opportunity. Currently, the Moon's ... more |
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