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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 moreSpace Operations Institute Backs Up NASA's WISE Mission 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2010At 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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US warns China against 'stillborn' climate deal
Businessman to fly African flags on space trip NASA to launch solar observatory Europe battles declining influence Prius: world's most popular hybrid Russia wants to charge more for rides to space: report Russia, China agree on nuclear construction cost: report China-born aerospace engineer gets 15 years for spying Mexico climate summit set for early December in Cancun Climate change impact of soil underestimated: study 
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4000 Pounds Never Meant So Much
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010The 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, 2010ESA'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, 2010As 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, 2010ESO 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, 2010Most 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, 2010Hilo 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, 2010In 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, 2010Ball 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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