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February 08, 2010
A Little Telescope Goes A Long Way
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2010
NASA astronomers have successfully demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars. Their work, reported in the journal Nature, provides a new tool for ground-based observatories, promising to accelerate by years the search for prebiotic, or life-related, molecules on planets orbiting stars beyond our solar sy ... read more

Space Operations Institute Backs Up NASA's WISE Mission
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2010
At Capitol College's Space Operations Institute (SOI), astronautical engineering students will have impressive experience to add to their resume when they graduate. In addition to being the primary operations center for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), the Space Operations Institute and its students now serve as the Backup Mission Operations Center (BMOC) for NASA's Wide-field Inf ... more

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4000 Pounds Never Meant So Much
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010
The most amazing thing to come out of NASA has been the images from the Hubble Space Telescope. At least to this pair of eyes that were electrified with IMAX's presentation of the Hubble repair and impact. We all know that 3D makes a lot of movies more fun, but this experience was also touching. The Earth in the background while two white spacesuits glide to repair our telescope felt like ... more

Herschel Readies Itself For The Orion Nebula
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 20, 2010
ESA's Herschel observatory is back to full operation following the reactivation of its HiFi instrument. HiFi, having been offline for 160 days while engineers investigated an unexpected problem in the electronic system, is now perfectly placed to resume its study of forming stars and planets. HiFi, the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared, was built specifically to observe water in ... more

Snowflake-Shaped Galaxy From Hubble Helps Ring In New Year
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 21, 2010
As part of its Hubble Heritage program, NASA has released an image, taken by a team led by University of Arizona astronomer Rodger Thompson, of a galaxy that resembles a snowflake. A bluish-white spiral galaxy hangs delicately in the cold vacuum of space. Like snowflakes, no two galaxies are exactly alike. Known as NGC 1376, this snowflake-shaped beauty has features that make it a one of ... more

On The Trail Of A Cosmic Cat
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 21, 2010
ESO has just released a stunning new image of the vast cloud known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or NGC 6334. This complex region of gas and dust, where numerous massive stars are born, lies near the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, and is heavily obscured by intervening dust clouds. Few objects in the sky have been as well named as the Cat's Paw Nebula, a glowing gas cloud resembling the gigantic ... more

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    Flying Telescope Passes Key Test
    Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 11, 2010
    Most astronomers wouldn't dream of opening their observatory's doors in 100 mph winds. Yet NASA's new SOFIA telescope recently flew in an airplane at 250 mph with doors wide open. On Dec. 18th, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), flew in a modified Boeing 747 at 15,000 feet for one hour and 19 minutes. For two minutes of that time, the door by the telescope was ... more

    Hilo Grant Funds New Telescope Instrumentation
    Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Jan 11, 2010
    Hilo received a National Science Foundation grant to fund major research instrumentation for the Hoku Kea Telescope atop Mauna Kea. Funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, the award totals $141,664 over a three-year period. "We're delighted that NSF has awarded us this grant," says Hilo Professor Principal Investigator David James. "This project is an impor ... more

    Mirror Testing At NASA Breaks Superstitious Myths
    Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2010
    In ancient mythological times reflective surfaces like shiny metals and mirrors were thought to be magical and credited with the ability to look into the future. NASA is using mirrors to do just the opposite - look into the past. Fast forward a couple of centuries from ancient time and myths to find NASA is developing a primary mirror, 21.3 feet in diameter, for use on the James Webb Space ... more

    JWST Mirror Segments Shipped To Marshall Space Flight Center
    Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 08, 2010
    Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has shipped five James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) beryllium primary mirror segments as well as the engineering development unit (EDU) to Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for cryogenic temperature testing. Following completion of the six-mirror test in March 2010, nine of the 18 James Webb primary mirror segments will have successfully ... more

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