http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened in flight. http://www.physorg.com/news180629542.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:10:07 EST news180629542 (PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception on the Salt Lake City campus. http://www.physorg.com/news176551313.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:30:01 EST news176551313 (PhysOrg.com) -- The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has joined the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT). As an Observer, China will participate in planning the development of what will be the world's most advanced and capable astronomical observatory. http://www.physorg.com/news177701830.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:40:01 EST news177701830 CSIRO has chosen the major science projects that its Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope will tackle in its first five years. http://www.physorg.com/news171727552.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:20:02 EST news171727552 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May. http://www.physorg.com/news177872673.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:07:27 EST news177872673 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 pulsating neutron stars. http://www.physorg.com/news172858253.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:12:47 EST news172858253 (PhysOrg.com) -- A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. http://www.physorg.com/news177092798.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:50:02 EST news177092798 Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon. http://www.physorg.com/news172772441.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:10:05 EST news172772441 Astronomers around the world are gearing up for three days of intense sky-watching in honour of Galileo, whose observations 400 years ago revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos. http://www.physorg.com/news175416565.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:58:39 EST news175416565 (PhysOrg.com) -- It's an unlikely place to build a NASA telescope: a leafy estate in Irvington, N.Y., that once belonged to the son of Alexander Hamilton. Inside a hangar-like building on the site, which is home to Columbia`s Nevis Laboratories for experimental physics, Charles Hailey is assembling mirrors for NuSTAR, the most sensitive X-ray telescope ever constructed. http://www.physorg.com/news180286322.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:34:11 EST news180286322 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for testing in the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility. http://www.physorg.com/news172242817.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:50:01 EST news172242817 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using first observations with the PACS Instrument on board ESA`s Herschel Space Telescope, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutions have for the first time resolved more than half of this radiation into its constituting sources. Observations with Herschel open the road towards understanding the properties of these galaxies, and trace the dusty side of galaxy evolution. http://www.physorg.com/news180196797.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:41:01 EST news180196797 (PhysOrg.com) -- MIT planetary scientist Sara Seager has been studying exoplanets - planets circling stars other than the sun - for many years. http://www.physorg.com/news178220229.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:20:02 EST news178220229 (PhysOrg.com) -- A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB). The result is reported in the Dec.10 issue of Nature magazine by the team of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) astronomers who built and operate the telescope and its unique scientific camera, named RINGO. http://www.physorg.com/news179593825.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:11:24 EST news179593825 The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth. No human is thought to have ever been there but it is expected to yield images of the heavens three times sharper than any ever taken from the ground. http://www.physorg.com/news170932769.html Space & Earth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:08:09 EST news170932769