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Rebirth of an icon: Hubble's first images since Servicing Mission 4

Rebirth of an icon: Hubble's first images since Servicing Mission 4

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration, with the release of observations from four of its six ...


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Far UV detector is part of new instrument to be installed on Hubble

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created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA's final mission to the 17-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, which begins May 11, will deliver a new instrument partly built by University of California, Berkeley, physicists to map the structure of the ...


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NASA Invites Public to Choose Hubble's Next Discovery

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before.





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Researchers 'clear away the dust,' get better look at youngest supernova remnant

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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

NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery

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created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 15

(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 ...


Cosmological simulations key to understanding the universe

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Tiziana Di Matteo, associate professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University is harnessing the power of supercomputing to recreate how galaxies are born, how they develop over time and, ultimately, how they collapse.


Wide Field Camera 3

New Science Instruments for Hubble

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created Oct 16, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

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 ...


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Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe

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created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

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 ...


The Eiffel Tower (centre) and the Montparnasse Tower (left) in Paris

'Cosmic opera' set for Paris tower

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The rooftop of a Paris skyscraper is to be transformed into a cosmic-ray laboratory in an unusual week-long experiment due to start on Saturday.


Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery

Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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 ...


Dust around a primitive star sheds new light on universe's origins

Dust around a primitive star sheds new light on universe's origins

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created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell-led team of astronomers has observed dust forming around a dying star in a nearby galaxy, giving a glimpse into the early universe and enlivening a debate about the origins of all ...


European astroparticle physicists to celebrate 100 years of cosmic ray experiments

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created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

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 ...


Cosmic rays hit space age high

Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high.



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