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Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to New Career
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 06, 2009 |
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The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of May 12, the telescope is ...
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Researchers 'clear away the dust,' get better look at youngest supernova remnant
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have used a mathematical model that allows them to get a clearer picture of the galaxy's youngest supernova remnant by correcting for the distortions caused ...
NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that ...
Seeing the universe through gamma-ray eyes
Jul 09, 2008 |
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The scientists have stopped holding their breath. Three weeks after the launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), researchers from Stanford University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and elsewhere ...
New Science Instruments for Hubble
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Oct 16, 2007 |
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To enhance the Hubble Space Telescope’s science capabilities, two new instruments – the Wide Field Camera 3 and Cosmic Origins Spectrograph - will be installed during the fifth and final shuttle servicing ...
The Crab Nebula: Energy for 100,000 Suns
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D.
Cosmic connections: Scientist locates the origin of cosmic dust
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time in new research out today (1 September 2008).
XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe
May 06, 2008 |
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ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe.
NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers
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Jan 15, 2008 |
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At a ceremony held today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind. The Great Observatories ...
Planck Satellite ready to measure the Big Bang
May 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The last tests of the Ariane 5 rocket system have been finished and ESA's Planck satellite is sitting ready for launch at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Together with ESA's space telescope ...
Mysterious Source of High-Energy Cosmic Radiation Discovered
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over ...
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