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9 Mar 2010
- 08:00 UTC Keck Observatory Keck telescope confirms smallest known star duo Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have identified the smallest known binary system to date. The system, called HM Cancri, consists of two dead stars that revolve around each ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communi... NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Launches Interactive Simulation NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation for virtual explorers of all ages.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Extends Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contrac... NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the ...
8 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery.
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini Finds Plethora of Plumes, Hotspots at Enceladus Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery.
- 13:03 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Earthquake in Chile The astronomical community will be relieved to learn that, we understand, most astronomers working in Chile have been accounted for, and are safe and well , and that the observatories ...
- 12:07 UTC Science and Technol... STFC makes a BIG Bang in Manchester Scientists from across the STFC are heading to Manchester to take part in the largest science fair in the UK for students, the Big Bang Fair at Manchester Central, 11th ...
- 07:27 UTC ESA Top News How ESA got its tweet back On Friday, Esa Alanen and family visited the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, as guests of ESA, to say thanks for relinquishing the Twitter name www.twitter.com/esa.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Hosts First-Ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16... NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.
5 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Watch Students Compete Using Lego Robotics Watch school teams test their software-enabled Lego robots via a live Internet program during the annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition.
- 11:00 UTC Herschel News Complex molecules in Orion Thumbnail: The newly-repaired HIFI spectrometer on board Herschel as prooved its worth by detecting the molecules present in regions of the Orion Nebula where stars are forming. HIFI spectrum of ...
- 09:03 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space: Icebreaker event This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision ...
- 08:50 UTC ESA Top News New investment fund backs space technologies finding uses... For years, ESA has been bringing space technologies down to Earth through its Technology Transfer Programme and Business Incubation initiatives. Now, the Agency will strengthen these initiatives by supporting new ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Briefing Highlights Education Outreach During Next S... NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Student Teams Ready to Battle Lunar Terrain at NASA's 17t... More than 100 student teams from around the globe will drive their lunar rovers through a course of moon-like terrain at NASA's 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race April 9-10.
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... SKA visualisation 2010 released A new Square Kilometre Array fly-over has been created by Swinburne Astronomy Productions with updated design and configuration data.
4 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Herschel Finds Possible Life-Enabling Molecules in Space The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula.
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Mars Dunes: On the Move? Mars has diversity. In at least one area, Martian sand dunes are actively migrating. In another, they have been stationary for 100,000 years.
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space One year ago this week, NASA's Kepler mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began to search for other worlds like ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Is That Saturn's Moon Titan or Utah? Planetary scientists, who have been puzzling for years over the surface features on Saturn's moon Titan, have now found some recognizable analogies to a type of terrain on Earth known ...
- 19:09 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... STAR Discovers the Strangest Antimatter Yet The strangest form of antimatter ever seen has been discovered by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. The ...
- 17:05 UTC Royal Astronomical ... RAS / IoP response to restructuring of the Science and Te... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the Institute of Physics (IOP) have responded to the statement by Lord Drayson, Minister of Science and Innovation, setting out reforms to the structure ...
- 15:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: Bully galaxy rules the neighbourhood In general, galaxies can be thought of as "social" — hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies appear ...
- 14:30 UTC ESA Space Science Bully galaxy rules the neighbourhood In general, galaxies can be thought of as sociable, hanging out in groups and frequently interacting. However, this recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image highlights how some galaxies appear to ...
- 12:25 UTC Science and Technol... ESO announcement on E-ELT site The European Southern Observatory has outlined the next steps in finalising a site for the European Extremely Large Telescope.
- 12:04 UTC ESA Space Science Phobos Flyby Success Mars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars’ enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock ...
- 12:00 UTC Herschel Results Complex molecules in the Orion Nebula The HIFI spectrometer on board Herschel has detected the presence of complex molecules in regions of the Orion Nebula. The HIFI instrument has measured the far-infrared spectrum of the Orion ...
- 10:01 UTC Science and Technol... UK company Viglen to help scientists analyse big bang con... UK manufacturer and IT solutions provider Viglen has been selected to provide part of the required processing power for analysing the conditions that existed a trillionth of a second after ...
- 09:00 UTC CERN CERN to celebrate International Women’s day Geneva, 4 March 2010. On Monday 8 March, CERN1 will take on a distinctly feminine look as the laboratory celebrates the role of women in physics. Often seen as a ...
- 08:11 UTC ESA Top News New Eduspace website offers schools a clearer window on t... For the past 12 years, ESA’s Eduspace website has been a window on the world for secondary students and teachers. Now the website has been completely redesigned and updated, so ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Robot vs. Robot: Live In Washington and Across the Nation NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Student Teams Ready to Battle Lunar Terrain at NASA's 17t...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA and NOAA's GOES-P Satellite Successfully Launched The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:17 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... NASA’s Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space One year ago this week, NASA’s Kepler Mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began its search for other worlds like ...
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Feature: Journey of the Mirrors Interactive Map Did you know Webb's mirrors have to make 14 stops to 11 places during their manufacture? We have a new interactive map to show you what happens at each step ...
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... First signal received by future telescope An historic milestone was reached recently in Australia’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array telescope – a future international radio telescope that will be the world’s largest and most ...
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... ICRAR Astronomer takes Dr Who to Supernova 2007gr ICRAR astronomer Dr Megan Argo is what you might conservatively call a Dr Who fan. Join her as she takes the good doctor on a trip to Supernova 2007gr.
3 Mar 2010
- 20:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Orbiter Speeds Past Data Milestone NASA's newest Mars orbiter has passed a data-volume milestone unimaginable a generation ago and still difficult to fathom - 100 terabits.
- 18:05 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... First of Missing Primitive Stars Discovered March 03, 2010: Astronomers have discovered a relic from the early universe - a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big ...
- 18:03 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Old Star is “Missing Link” in Galactic Evolution A newly discovered star outside the Milky Way has yielded important clues about the evolution of our galaxy. Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor some 280,000 light-years away, the star ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Winds of Change: How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are ...
- 12:04 UTC ESA Top News Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos ESA’s Mars Express will skim the surface of Mars’ largest moon Phobos this evening. Passing by at an altitude of 67 km, precise radio tracking will allow researchers to peer ...
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News The Cosmic Bat The delicate nebula NGC 1788, located in a dark and often neglected corner of the Orion constellation, is revealed in a new and finely nuanced image that ESO is releasing ...
- 07:00 UTC National Optical As... GLOBE at Night 2010 Builds toward Breaking the Record Set... With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced—and maybe never will—the wonderment of pristinely dark skies. This loss, caused by light pollution, ...
- 07:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Launch Day of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17 (... Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to an
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Tracing ... It all started with 12 unpaid, highly qualified men, a budget of only $5,000 a year and an unbridled passion for promoting and conducting aeronautical research.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's International Space Station Program Wins Collier T... NASA's International Space Station Program has won the 2009 Collier Trophy, which is considered the top award in aviation.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Winds of Change: How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provide evidence for powerful winds blowing away from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy.
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Webb Telescope’s First Primary Mirror Meets Cold Temperat... Webb's first primary mirror segment was cryo-polished to spec! Check out the linked press release for more details.