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  • Discovery of High-Energy X-Rays Coming from Our Cosmic Doorstep
    News - 20 Feb 2008
    ESA's Integral has made the first unambiguous discovery of high-energy X-rays coming from a rare massive star at our cosmic doorstep, Eta Carinae. It is one of the most violent places in the...
  • SIDECAR Provides Better Images to Earth
    News - 20 Feb 2008
    Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the...
  • Telescopes on the Far Side of the Moon
    News - 19 Feb 2008
    NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the...
  • Solving the Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts
    News - 17 Feb 2008
    UK space scientist Emeritus Professor Alan Wells is to speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston in February on: International Cooperation in Developing Swift...
  • Opening New Window on the Universe
    News - 16 Feb 2008
    In the thin, dry air of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 16,500 feet, an amazing new telescope system is taking shape, on schedule to provide the world's astronomers with...
  • NICMOS Reveals Detailed Images of Infant Galaxy
    News - 12 Feb 2008
    Detailed images from Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) reveal an infant galaxy, dubbed A1689-zD1, undergoing a firestorm of star birth as it comes out of the...
  • First Steps in the Cosmic Distance Ladder
    News - 11 Feb 2008
    Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that...
  • Listening to the Sound of a Celestial Black Hole
    News - 9 Feb 2008
    Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse University's Department of Physics may help them identify the sound of a celestial black hole. The supercomputer, dubbed SUGAR (SU...
  • Deep Imapct Searching for Alien Planets
    News - 8 Feb 2008
    NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called EPOXI. Deep Impact made history when...
  • Mars in 3D
    News - 6 Feb 2008
    Mars is about to come into 3D focus as never before, thanks to the data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). A new high-resolution Digital Terrain Model data set that has just...

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