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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Commemorates a Decade of Operation in Space

Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four Great Observatories continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes.

26 Aug 2013

Collage Image of Earth Waving at Saturn Released

People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission on July 19 -- the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images.

22 Aug 2013

ICRAR in Perth Receives Extended Funding for Square Kilometre Array Astronomy

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), based in Perth, Western Australia has been extended for another five years thanks to a $26M investment announced by WA Premier Colin Barnett today.

17 Aug 2013

HoodTech's System Offers 2 Independently Operated, 4-Axis Gyro-Stabilized Imaging Systems on a Single Aircraft

HoodTech Vision, leading manufacturer of low size, weight, and power (low SWaP) stabilized imaging systems for small manned and unmanned systems, announces the new capability to provide simultaneous, independent operation of two stabilized imaging systems on a single aircraft.

From Hood Tech Corporation Vision, Inc. 13 Aug 2013

Russian Cosmonauts to Remove Space Laser Communications System During Spacewalk

NASA Television will provide live coverage as two Russian cosmonauts venture outside the International Space Station on spacewalks Friday, Aug. 16, and Thursday, Aug. 22.

6 Aug 2013

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Captures First On-Sky Image with Sinistro Camera

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), with first lights at nine new 1-meter telescopes since April of 2012, achieved another critical milestone by capturing the first on-sky image with a production Sinistro camera. In development for over six years, the camera is arguably more important than the telescopes that will use them. “A telescope is really nothing more than a large camera lens,” explained Joe Tufts, instrumentation scientist on the Sinistro project. “A large, precise, stable, and very expensive camera lens.”

2 Aug 2013

Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera Captures Images of Carbon Dioxide Fizzing Away From Soda-Pop Comet

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pass through the inner solar system later this year.

24 Jul 2013

Direct Download from Liverpool Telescope Brought to Merseyside

Spaceport, the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) and Merseytravel have launched a brand new exhibition, 'The Observatory', bringing images from the world’s largest robotic telescope, the Liverpool Telescope in La Palma, to Merseyside. The only one of its kind in the UK, the exhibit has a direct download from the Telescope.

23 Jul 2013

NASA Honors Johns Hopkins Astronomer for Outstanding Contributions to Hubble Space Telescope

Holland Ford, an astronomer at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., has received NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal for his outstanding contributions to the Hubble Space Telescope.

19 Jul 2013

Hubble Discovers New Moon Orbiting Distant Blue-Green Planet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet.

16 Jul 2013