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Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra Space Telescopes Team Up to Look Deeper into Universe

NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from natural "zoom lenses" found in space, they should be able to uncover galaxies that are as much as 100 times fainter than what these three great observatories typically can see.

25 Oct 2013

End of Operations for Planck Space Telescope

The Planck space telescope has been turned off after spending nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies throughout the history of the universe.

25 Oct 2013

Astronomers Identify Very Distant Galaxy Using Images Taken by Hubble Space Telescope

University of California, Riverside astronomers Bahram Mobasher and Naveen Reddy are members of a team that has discovered the most distant galaxy ever found. The galaxy is seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about 5 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years.

24 Oct 2013

First Mapping of Cloud Distribution on Exoplanet Using Kepler Telescope’s Optical Data

On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits a star nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth, is heavily overcast on one side, while the other side likely enjoys clear, cloudless weather.

3 Oct 2013

Brunson Adds Next-Gen AlignCam System to Line of Alignment Telescopes

Brunson Instrument Company today announced the release of their next-gen AlignCam system for Brunson’s current line of alignment telescopes, levels and transits. This new product line is a signature development for Brunson alignment tools utilized every day by service organizations, and maintenance and reliability professionals.

1 Oct 2013

Solar Observatory Sunrise Provides High-Resolution Images of Sun’s Chromosphere

Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise – carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 -- scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere.

30 Sep 2013

Dawn Spacecraft's Framing Camera Provides New Insights of Giant Asteroid Vesta

Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look. They got a chance to do that in 2011 and 2012, when NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited the giant asteroid, and they were able to check earlier conclusions.

30 Sep 2013

UCR to Conduct MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field Survey of Galaxies

Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a very large new survey of galaxies using a new instrument — MOSFIRE — on the Keck I telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawai`i’s Big Island.

17 Sep 2013

CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array to Celebrate 25 Years

CSIRO will celebrate the anniversary with a public Open Day at the telescope site on 1 September, then a formal ceremony and a scientific meeting.

27 Aug 2013

ATK Ships Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure for James Webb Space Telescope

ATK has shipped the primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS) for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Marshall Space Flight Center, completing an important milestone for the most powerful space telescope ever to be built.

26 Aug 2013