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ESA Space Science
8 Jun 2011, 14:00 UTC
The final command placing ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser into deep-space hibernation was sent earlier today. With virtually all systems shut down, the probe will now coast for 31 months until waking up in 2014 for arrival at its comet destination.
Rosetta comet probe enters hibernation in deep space
8 Jun 2011, 14:00 UTC
The final command placing ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser into deep-space hibernation was sent earlier today. With virtually all systems shut down, the probe will now coast for 31 months until waking up in 2014 for arrival at its comet destination.
ESO Top News
8 Jun 2011, 10:00 UTC
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO’s Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope, with the huge 268-megapixel camera OmegaCAM at its heart, which is designed to map the sky both quickly and with very fine image quality. It is a visible-light telescope that perfectly complements ESO’s VISTA infrared survey telescope. New images of the Omega Nebula and the globular cluster Omega Centauri demonstrate the VST’s power.
First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope
8 Jun 2011, 10:00 UTC
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO’s Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope, with the huge 268-megapixel camera OmegaCAM at its heart, which is designed to map the sky both quickly and with very fine image quality. It is a visible-light telescope that perfectly complements ESO’s VISTA infrared survey telescope. New images of the Omega Nebula and the globular cluster Omega Centauri demonstrate the VST’s power.
ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration
8 Jun 2011, 09:04 UTC
Now that Paolo Nespoli has returned from the International Space Station, we are looking forward to Europe’s next mission. André Kuipers will be launched to the orbital outpost in November – but his mission still has no name. Help us to find a good one!
Help ESA to name Europe’s next mission to Space Station
8 Jun 2011, 09:04 UTC
Now that Paolo Nespoli has returned from the International Space Station, we are looking forward to Europe’s next mission. André Kuipers will be launched to the orbital outpost in November – but his mission still has no name. Help us to find a good one!
Thirty Meter Telescope
7 Jun 2011, 15:48 UTC
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At the White House today, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions to the three fields for which the Prizes are awarded -- astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. read more
President Obama Meets U.S. Laureates of 2010 Kavli Prizes - TMT Project Scientist Honored
7 Jun 2011, 15:48 UTC
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At the White House today, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions to the three fields for which the Prizes are awarded -- astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. read more
ESA Space Science
7 Jun 2011, 11:00 UTC
ESA’s Mars Express celebrates eight years in space with a new view of ice in the southern polar region of Mars. The poles are closely linked to the planet’s climate and constantly change with the seasons. Their study is an important scientific objective of the mission.
Springtime at Mars’ south pole
7 Jun 2011, 11:00 UTC
ESA’s Mars Express celebrates eight years in space with a new view of ice in the southern polar region of Mars. The poles are closely linked to the planet’s climate and constantly change with the seasons. Their study is an important scientific objective of the mission.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
7 Jun 2011, 04:00 UTC
Cue the surfing music. Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. More than just a nice photo-op, the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere.
Surfing on the Sun, as seen by SDO
7 Jun 2011, 04:00 UTC
Cue the surfing music. Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. More than just a nice photo-op, the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
6 Jun 2011, 22:49 UTC
Jupiter's strange, erratic behavior in its infancy dramatically changed the course of our solar system.
Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System
6 Jun 2011, 22:49 UTC
Jupiter's strange, erratic behavior in its infancy dramatically changed the course of our solar system.
ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration
6 Jun 2011, 11:58 UTC
A new way to fly experiments takes off tomorrow with the first campaign dedicated to research in ‘partial’ gravity. Scientists on Europe’s ‘Zero-G’ Airbus will experiment with gravity conditions like those on the Moon and Mars.
Europe’s new way to experiment in partial gravity
6 Jun 2011, 11:58 UTC
A new way to fly experiments takes off tomorrow with the first campaign dedicated to research in ‘partial’ gravity. Scientists on Europe’s ‘Zero-G’ Airbus will experiment with gravity conditions like those on the Moon and Mars.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
6 Jun 2011, 04:00 UTC
NASA scientists have produced groundbreaking, first-of-their-kind global maps of land plant fluorescence.
Fluorescence Map Offers New World View
6 Jun 2011, 04:00 UTC
NASA scientists have produced groundbreaking, first-of-their-kind global maps of land plant fluorescence.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
5 Jun 2011, 17:01 UTC
Physicists in Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division are key members of the international ALPHA Collaboration at CERN in Geneva, which has succeeded in storing a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms, many of them for as long as 1,000 seconds (almost 17 minutes) and some for much longer -- more than enough time to perform meaningful scientific experiments on confined anti-atoms.
