News tagged with ultraviolet telescope
Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities. Like grocery stores selling melons ...
Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission marks its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector ...
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Russia, China to launch space observatory
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Nov 07, 2006 |
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Russian and Chinese space agency officials say they will build and launch an ultraviolet space observatory to be placed into orbit in 2010.
Hubble observes LCROSS impact: Preliminary analysis shows no clear evidence for hydroxyl
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur rocket stage and shepherding ...
Far UV detector is part of new instrument to be installed on Hubble
May 07, 2009 |
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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 ...
'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image
Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Swift Satellite records early phase of gamma ray burst
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UK astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift Satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma ray burst - the most violent and luminous explosions occurring ...
Swift satellite images a galaxy ablaze with starbirth
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Combining 39 individual frames taken over 11 hours of exposure time, NASA astronomers have created this ultraviolet mosaic of the nearby "Triangulum Galaxy." "This is the most detailed ultraviolet image of ...
White Dwarf Lost in Planetary Nebula
Jun 03, 2008 |
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Call it the case of the missing dwarf. A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation). They have two suspects, traces of assault and battery, but no corpse.
Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera
May 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical ...
Ultraviolet gives view inside real 'death star'
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Scientists have, for the first time, observed a flash of ultraviolet light from within a dying star giving vital evidence of how stars turn into supernovae.
Large binocular telescope achieves first binocular light
Mar 06, 2008 |
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The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular" light.
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