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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 09, 2009 
The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83. Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. The sharp "eye" of the Wide Field ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2009NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send their experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon. The annual NASA project provides near space access for 12 undergraduate and graduate student experiments to be carried by a NASA high-altitude research balloon. The flights typically last 15 to 20 hours and reach an ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 09, 2009Chandrayaan-II moon mission, which will help in analysis of mineral composition and undertake terrain mapping of the moon, will be completed by 2012-13, Project Director of Chandrayaan Dr M Annadurai has said. "The Rs 425 crore project will be completed by 2012-13. As opposed to Chandrayaan-1 which was a moon orbiter, in Chandrayaan-2, the two moon rovers will actually land on the moon ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2009NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 6, 2009The US space probe Messenger's third and final fly-by of the planet Mercury in September revealed an almost complete view of the solar system's smallest planet, leaving only the polar regions to be surveyed, NASA said. Flying at a low altitude, the Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) probe's cameras have now mapped some 98 percent of Mercury's surface ... more |
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MOffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2009A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world. The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging spacecraft, known as MESSENGER, flew by Mercury on Sept. 29. The probe completed a critical gravity assist to ... more  
Stanford, Calif. (UPI) Nov 4, 2009 U.S. and Welsh researchers say they've obtained a detailed picture of the early universe using a telescope in the Antarctic. The researchers led by Professors Walter Gear of Cardiff University and Sarah Church of Stanford University said their measurements of the cosmic microwave background provide further support for the standard cosmological model of the universe. They said the ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2009The Cassini spacecraft has weathered the Monday, Nov. 2, flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus in good health and has been sending images and data of the encounter back to Earth. Cassini had approached Enceladus more closely before, but this passage took the spacecraft on its deepest plunge yet through the heart of the plume shooting out from the south polar region. Scientists are eagerly sifting thr ... more |
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