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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...
  • Simultaneous Optical and Electronic Measurements on Same Molecule
    News - 6 Feb 2008
    In a study that could lay the foundation for mass-produced single-molecule sensors, physicists and engineers at Rice University have demonstrated a means of simultaneously making optical and...
  • 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...
  • The Eyes Have It
    News - 30 Jan 2008
    Using the radiocarbon dating method and special proteins in the lens of the eye, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus can now establish, with relatively high precision, when a person...
  • 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...

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