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Canada's Space Telescope Celebrates Birthday Number Six Mississauga, Canada (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 
Microsat Systems Canada is delighted to announce the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite - Canada's First Space Telescope. The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars) microsatellite was launched June 30, 2003 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a 12-month mission to study the vibration of distant stars and draw inferences about their hidden composition - a technique called asterose ... read moreMagnetic Field On Bright Star Vega 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 25, 2009Astronomy and Astrophysics is publishing the first detection of a magnetic field on the star Vega, one of the brightest stars in the sky. Using the high-sensitivity NARVAL spectropolarimeter installed at the Bernard-Lyot telescope (Pic du Midi Observatory, France), a team of astronomers detected the effect of a magnetic field (known as the Zeeman effect) in the light emitted by Vega. ... more
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Herschel's First Picture Of An Object In Space
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2009The European space telescope Herschel captured its first image of an object in the Universe. Scientists are talking about the comparatively high quality of the picture taken by Herschel's PACS instrument. The image shows the galaxy M51, known as the 'Whirlpool Galaxy'. Although at this early stage all the settings of the telescope are not fully calibrated, its performance already exceeds expecta ... more Space Giant Moves To New Home 
LOndon, UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2009The largest space telescope ever constructed in Britain is to be taken out of storage at the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre to go on display at the Science Museum in London. The JET-X (Joint European X-Ray Telescope) instrument is a 3.5 m focal length X-ray telescope built by a consortium of groups from Italy and Russia and scientific groups from the UK; from the ... more Herschel hatch cover opens 
Paris (UPI) Jun 15, 2009 The Herschel space telescope, launched in May by the European Space Agency, opened its protective hatch Sunday. The removal of the cover protecting the instruments from contamination is the first major milestone for the telescope, the BBC reported. "We need the lid open or we can't see the sky, so it's a really important event," said Matt Griffin, a scientist involved with the pr ... more Commissioning Hubble - Preparing For Science Observations 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 12, 2009The fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope may be over but for the ESA Hubble scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, USA, the end of the servicing mission signalled the start of a period of intense investigation and analysis as the two new, and two repaired, instruments are commissioned and prepared for scientific observations. ... more |
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Peering Deep Into Space
Coral Gables FL (SPX) May 29, 2009People have always wondered where we, our Earth, our galaxy, come from. A group of scientist has now driven that quest one step further and taken a peak at how the stars that gave rise to most of the material found on our universe formed over cosmic history. University of Miami professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Joshua Gundersen is part of an international research ... more Successful Mission Leaves Hubble Better Than Ever 
Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2009Take one space shuttle, seven highly trained astronauts, tons of equipment, and one legendary orbiting telescope and you have the 5.3 million-mile odyssey that was the final servicing mission for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. After months of training and a seven-month postponement, the STS-125 crew's mission got under way with an on-time launch into a brilliant-blue Florida sky. The May ... more Most Efficient Spectrograph To Shoot The Southern Skies 
Paris, France (SPX) May 26, 2009ESO's Very Large Telescope - Europe's flagship facility for ground-based astronomy - has been equipped with the first of its second generation instruments: X-shooter. It can record the entire spectrum of a celestial object in one shot - from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared - with high sensitivity. This unique new instrument will be particularly useful for the study of distant explodin ... more Giant Galaxy Messier 87 Finally Sized Up 
Garching, Germany (SPX) May 22, 2009Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 and were surprised to find that its outer parts have been stripped away by still unknown effects. The galaxy also appears to be on a collision course with another giant galaxy in this very dynamic cluster. The new observations reveal that Messier 87's halo of stars has been cut sho ... more |
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