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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2009 
The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal , the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has allowed the stunning Jewel Box star cluster to be seen in a whole new light. Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 29, 2009Satellite 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 ... 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  
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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Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 27, 2009On Dec. 31, 2007, the Sun awoke from the relatively quiescent period between Solar Cycles 23 and 24 to produce a solar flare that spewed high-energy neutrons into interplanetary space. The Neutron Spectrometer flying aboard NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft recorded the event, giving scientists a first-ever, up-close look at neutron production from a solar flare. In fact, it was the first time ... more 
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 |
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