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University Celebrates Telescope's 'First Light' Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 05, 2009 
The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11, symposium and reception on the Salt Lake City campus. The new Willard L. Eccles Observatory's 32-inch reflecting telescope took its first pictures the night of Oct. 15. The "first light" photo is an edge-on view of the spiral ... read moreSpitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2009Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young star with evidence for the same kind of orbital hyperactivity. Young planets circling the star are thought to be disturbing smaller comet-like bodies, causing them to collide and kick up a huge halo of dust. ... more
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Eye Of JWST Marks Major Milestone As Mission Moves Forward
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2009The telescope element of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC - News), has successfully passed a critical design review verifying it will perform as designed, and now moves forward to final manufacturing steps and integration of all subsystems. The Optical Telescope Element (OTE), which is the eye of the Observatory, includes a giant ... more Mexico University Creates First Network Of Telescopes In Latin American 
Mexico City, Mexico (XNA) Oct 26, 2009Experts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have created the first network of radio-telescopes in Latin America to promote the research of the activities of the sun, the moon and the planets. The network aimed to promote the scientific research and facilitate the intercommunication between radio-telescopes, the UNAM, one of the major universities in Latin America, said ... more NIRSpec Instrument Engineering Test Unit Model Is Completed 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 19, 2009The Engineering Test Unit model of NIRSpec - the innovative and pioneering Near Infrared Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope - has been completed by the prime contractor, EADS Astrium, and is ready to be shipped to NASA for testing. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large (6.5 m), cold ( 50 K), infrared-optimised telescope designed to address a number of key topics in ... more China, Germany Build Astronomical Observatory In Tibet 
Lhasa, Tibet (XNA) Oct 14, 2009Chinese and German scientists are establishing an astronomical observatory in a Tibetan county 4,300 meters above sea level. Construction of the observatory began on Monday in Yangbajain Township, of Damxung County in the suburbs of Tibet's regional capital Lhasa, said project leader Wang Junjie Tuesday. The observatory would be operational in early 2011, after a state-of-the-art telescope ... more |
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Keck: Twin 10-meter Telescopes Spot Double Dust Cloud
Kamuela HI (SPX) Sep 25, 2009Linking the twin, 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory discovered an extended, double-layered dust disk orbiting 51 Ophiuchi, a star that is 410 light-years from Earth. It is the first time the Keck Interferometer Nuller instrument has identified such a compact cloud around a star so far away. The new data suggest that 51 Ophiuchi is a protoplanetary ... more LOFAR Takes The Long View Across Borders 
Effelsberg. Germany (SPX) Sep 24, 2009An international group of astronomers have succeeded in the first joint observations between the LOFAR stations in Exloo (The Netherlands) and Effelsberg (Germany). This constitutes the "first light" of the LOFAR telescope as an international array. The bright quasar 3C 196, located almost ten billion light years away from Earth, was detected successfully on 2009 August 20 providing first "inter ... more Zooming To The Centre Of The Milky Way - GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 2 
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 23, 2009The second of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online. It is a new and wonderful 340-million-pixel vista of the central parts of our home galaxy as seen from ESO's Paranal Observatory with an amateur telescope. This 34 by 20-degree wide image provides us with a view as experienced by amateur astronomers around the world. However, its incredible beauty ... more Planck First Light Yields Promising Results 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 18, 2009Preliminary results from ESA's Planck mission to study the early Universe indicate that the data quality is excellent. This bodes well for the full sky survey that has just begun. Planck started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2, on 13 August. The instruments were fine-tuned for optimum performance in the period ... more |
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