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Astronauts to undertake fourth walk to repair Hubble telescope
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May 17, 2009 |
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US astronauts on Sunday will undertake a fourth in a series of five daily spacewalks intended to equip the 19-year-old Hubble Space Telescope for at least another five years of valuable scientific work.
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Los Alamos observatory fingers cosmic ray 'hot spots'
Nov 24, 2008 |
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A Los Alamos National Laboratory cosmic-ray observatory has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays. The research calls into question ...
Cosmic connections: Scientist locates the origin of cosmic dust
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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).
European astroparticle physicists to celebrate 100 years of cosmic ray experiments
Oct 02, 2009 |
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From 10 to 17 October 2009, in France, Italy, Spain and many other countries, astroparticle physicists will meet the public to reveal some of the most exciting mysteries of the Universe. Within the first European Week of ...
NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
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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 ...
Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe
Feb 16, 2009 |
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During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in ...
Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy ...
Cosmic Dance Helps Galaxies Lose Weight
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study published this week in the journal Nature offers an explanation for the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The research may settle an outstanding puzzle in unders ...
Integral looks at Earth to seek source of cosmic radiation
Mar 16, 2006 |
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Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: observing ...
Integral looks at Earth to seek source of cosmic radiation
Feb 13, 2006 |
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Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: observing ...
Radiation flashes may help crack cosmic mystery
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics.
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