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  • 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...
  • ESA Welcomes its Latest Guest
    News - 9 Feb 2008
    ESA's test centre is buzzing with activity and anticipation as it welcomes its latest guest. The gigantic telescope of ESA's space-based infrared observatory, Herschel, is being prepared to be...
  • 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...
  • New Name for the Cutting Edge Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope
    News - 8 Feb 2008
    NASA announced Thursday that members of the general public from around the world will have a chance to suggest a new name for the cutting edge Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as...
  • 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...
  • Popping a Spare onto a 3,200-Tonne Radio Telescope
    News - 4 Feb 2008
    Engineers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire needed more than just a jack and a brace when a steel tyre on the famous Lovell radio telescope cracked. It...
  • Shedding Light on Mysterious Dark Energy
    News - 28 Jan 2008
    Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution and motions of thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. This opens fascinating perspectives to better...
  • First High-Resolution Image of Mercury
    News - 24 Jan 2008
    One week ago, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high-resolution image of Mercury by a spacecraft in over 30 years, since the three Mercury flybys of Mariner 10 in 1974 and...
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