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Star-gazing brings Vatican's chief astronomer 'closer to God'Castel Gandolfo, Italy (AFP) May 4, 2010 Jesuit priest Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican's astronomic observatory, says star-gazing brings him closer to God. "I became an astronomer in order to get closer to God who created the universe," said Funes at the observatory in the vast park surrounding the pope's summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. "We wonder the same things that our secular colleagues do - how does the universe work, how did it originate, are there planets similar to Earth?" said Funes, 47. Both F ... read more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2010Using information provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California San Diego have successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2 were m ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 27, 2010New images from ESA's Planck space observatory reveal the forces driving star formation and give astronomers a way to understand the complex physics that shape the dust and gas in our Galaxy. Star formation takes place hidden behind veils of dust but that doesn't mean we can't see through them. Where optical telescopes see only black space, Planck's microwave eyes reveal myriad glowing str ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 27, 2010Studying comets can be quite dangerous - especially from close up. Because the tiny particles of dust emitted into space from the so-called active regions on a comet's surface can damage space probes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have now developed a computer model that can locate these regions using only the information available from Earth ... more |
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Cassini Measures Tug Of EnceladusPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2010 NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be gliding low over Saturn's moon Enceladus for a gravity experiment designed to probe the moon's interior composition. The flyby, which will take Cassini through the water-rich plume flaring out from Enceladus's south polar region, will occur on April 27 Pacific time and April 28 UTC. At closest approach, Cassini will be flying about 100 kilometers (60 miles) above the moon's surface. Cassini's scientists plan to use the radio science instrument to measure the ... read more |
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