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  • First Pictures from an Automated Eye in the Sky
    News - 11 Mar 2008
    One of the experiments housed on the European Columbus laboratory's external platform is an automated eye in the sky known as the Earth Viewing Camera (EVC). Now, after several weeks of...
  • Lunar Telescope to See into the Dark Ages
    News - 11 Mar 2008
    A team of scientists and engineers led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will study how to design a telescope on the Moon for peering into the last unexplored epoch in the Universe's history....
  • GLAST Ready For Launch
    News - 8 Mar 2008
    NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, arrived Tuesday at the Astrotech payload processing facility near the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for launch. Liftoff of...
  • Mapping the Interior of Interstellar Clouds
    News - 8 Mar 2008
    Astronomers have measured the distribution of mass inside a dark filament in a molecular cloud with an amazing level of detail and to great depth. The measurement is based on a new method that looks...
  • First Binocular Light - A Milestone for Science
    News - 6 Mar 2008
    The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular"...
  • Imagery is The Next Best Thing
    News - 27 Feb 2008
    NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
  • Camera Revealed Some Amazing Things
    News - 21 Feb 2008
    Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes...
  • X-Rayed the Dark Matter
    News - 21 Feb 2008
    A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter...
  • Unleashing Powerful Bursts of X-Rays
    News - 21 Feb 2008
    Observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star has thrown a temper tantrum. The collapsed star occasionally unleashes...
  • Giant Camera will Survey the Sky 1000 Times Faster
    News - 21 Feb 2008
    Today (21 February 2008) the Science and Technology Facility Council's UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh shipped its biggest and most complex ever...

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