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Planck Sees Light Billions of Years Old
Aug 14, 2009 |
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The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe.
Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy
Nov 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have long puzzled over why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood.
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NASA Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Study Cosmos
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Spitzer Space Telescope: Warmed Up and Ready to Go
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Jul 28, 2009 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has put its infrared eyes back on the sky to observe the cold and dusty universe.
Scientist fine-tune Hubble Space Telescope
Mar 25, 2009 |
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A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology has expanded the Hubble Space Telescope's capability without the need for new instruments or billions of dollars.
Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope to focus on Mars
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Mar 24, 2009 |
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Microsoft and NASA on Tuesday announced an alliance to focus the software giant's virtual WorldWide Telescope on space agency images of Mars and other celestial bodies.
Galileo's telescope on historic visit to Philly
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Though it looks like a cardboard tube that got left out in the rain, it's a priceless instrument whose owner changed the world. The mottled brown cylinder on display at The Franklin Institute science ...
CSIRO sets science path for new telescope
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Sep 09, 2009 |
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CSIRO has chosen the major science projects that its Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope will tackle in its first five years.
Astronauts take final spacewalk for Hubble repairs
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May 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Monday to finish repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, never to be touched by human hands again.
Keeping a 'trained eye' on the James Webb Space Telescope
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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NASA and Northrop Grumman are keeping a "trained eye" on the James Webb Space Telescope, by training their engineers on how to handle and assemble the telescope's Optical Telescope Element (OTE), also known ...
Australia gets $72 million for the Giant Magellan Telescope
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Pasadena, CA-The Australian government has announced that it will provide $88.4 million AUD ($72.4 million USD) to help fund the revolutionary 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) to be sited at Las Campanas ...
NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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