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26 Jan 2010
- 04:00 UTC Science@NASA Close Encounter with Mars This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, The Red Planetwill be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... ARIANESPACE SELECTED TO LAUNCH FIRST 10 SATELLITES IN GAL... Arianespace has signed a launch contract for the first 10 Full Operational Capability satellites in Europe's planned Galileo satellite positioning system. The spacecraft will be launched in pairs starting in ...
25 Jan 2010
- 22:00 UTC South African Astro... Select your favourite South African asteroid name The second round of the national Name Our Asteroid competition is already well under way. The top five names from over 100 submissions by young South Africans have already been ...
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Groovy Hills Rising from Titan Surface Hills with a wrinkly radial pattern stand out in a new radar image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2009.
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth Asteroid NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole ...
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Just a Few More Approaches to Try for Extrication Hills with a wrinkly radial pattern stand out in a new radar image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2009.
- 18:05 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Reaching for the Stars to Create Music of the Universe What if the light waves emitted by exploding stars could be translated into sound? That’s the idea behind a musical project to “sonify” the universe by Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey ...
- 09:29 UTC ESA Top News Slovenia becomes sixth ESA European Cooperating State Slovenia becomes the sixth European country to sign the European Cooperating State Agreement with ESA.
- 06:24 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Feeding our future – nutrition on Earth and in space There are of course many technical challenges when planning missions to the Moon and beyond, but there is another important question: what should the astronauts have for dinner?
23 Jan 2010
- 00:47 UTC Gemini Observatory Heavyweights vs. Lightweights: Are the Largest Stars Born... For Immediate Release - Wednesday, January 27, 2010Credit: Gemini Observatory, artwork by Lynette CookArtist’s conception of W33A showing the accretion disk (yellow/orange), torus (dark ring around disk) and bi-polar outflow ...
22 Jan 2010
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... The First of Many Asteroid Finds for WISE NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole ...
- 19:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Science Results - Discovery of new stellar streams in the... A team of astronomers from Tohoku University, University of Tokyo, NAOJ, University of California Santa Cruz, and other universities have discovered new stellar streams in a vast region surrounding the ...
- 18:00 UTC National Radio Astr... West Virginia Student Discovers New Pulsar A West Virginia high-school student has discovered a new pulsar, using data from the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Shay Bloxton, 15, a participant in a project ...
- 09:39 UTC ESA Top News ESA - Euronews Space MagazineXMM Newton: Unveiling the un... In 1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered rays which he didn't know much about, so he called them X-Rays. One of the best known applications for these rays today is ...
- 08:57 UTC ESA Top News Technology-testing Proba-2 opens new eye on the Sun Packed with novel devices and science instruments, Proba-2 is demonstrating technologies for future ESA missions while providing new views of our Sun.
- 07:25 UTC ESA Top News Congo receives help from space after volcano eruption On 2 January, Mount Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, spewing lava from its southern flank and raising concerns that the 100 000 people in the town of ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News High School Students Can Send Experiments Flying with NAS... NASA is inviting student teams nationwide to design and build an experiment or technology demonstration to be sent to the near space environment of the stratosphere, an altitude of 100,000 ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Stellar Students Selected As NASA Ambassadors NASA has selected 105 of its best and brightest interns and fellows for the NASA Student Ambassador Program.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronauts Presenting Special 'Space Veteran' Super ... The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission will deliver a specially minted silver medallion to National Football League officials at 10 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Tweetup Gives Public Birds-Eye View Of Space Shuttle... For the first time, NASA Twitter followers can personally go inside the heart of a space shuttle mission at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
21 Jan 2010
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... January Listening Period Ends with No Word from Phoenix M... NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed all 30 relay overflights of the Phoenix landing site that were scheduled for Jan. 18 to 21, and heard nothing from the lander.
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Rover Gives NASA an "Opportunity" to View Interior of Mar... NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Two Tails to Tell Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission has been seen trailing behind a galaxy using the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
- 16:01 UTC Royal Astronomical ... January 2010 Astronomy Forum The notes from the January 2010 Astronomy Forum (http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1552&Itemid=150) are now available.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Reporters Invited To "Dig It" With NASA in Hawaii Reporters are invited to field tests of NASA equipment and concept vehicles that demonstrate how explorers might prospect for resources and make their own oxygen for survival while on other ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... News: BLOG: Your Chance to Shoot Your Own Image of Mars BLOG: Your Chance to Shoot Your Own Image of Mars
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Questioning Space -- Los Angeles Students Connect with an... Elementary students at Vintage Math, Science and Technology Magnet School in Los Angeles will get to ask questions of astronauts aboard the International Space station while the crew orbits 220 ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 20...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Rover Gives NASA an "Opportunity" to View Interior of Mar... NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News From Space to the Classroom: NASA Science Improves Climat... NASA has awarded approximately $1.4 million in cooperative agreements to enhance learning through the use of the agency's unique Earth science resources.
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Exhibit: New Views of the Universe is coming to Ft. Wayne... The "New Views of the Universe" Hubble/Webb exhibit will be coming soon to Science Central in Ft. Wayne Indiana. The exhibit will be open to the public for seven months ...
20 Jan 2010
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Public Invited To Pick Pixels on Mars Scientists Taking Suggestions on Where to Image the Red Planet Using NASA Satellite
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Orbiter Listening for Phoenix Lander Hears Nothing NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has completed 11 overflights, listening for the Phoenix Mars Lander on Jan. 19 and 20, without hearing anything from the lander.
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL Scientist Receives American Meteorological Society Ho... JPL research scientist Tim Liu has been honored by the American Meteorological Society for his space-based research on Earth's climate.
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Spirit Switches to Backward Drives The rover team has begun driving Spirit backward as next technique for attempting to extricate the rover from the sand trap where it is embedded.
- 16:05 UTC Science and Technol... New Images Reveal Trail of a Cosmic Cat The European Space Observatory (ESO) has just released a stunning new image of the vast cloud known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or NGC 6334 which was originally discovered by ...
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News On the Trail of a Cosmic Cat ESO has just released a stunning new image of the vast cloud known as the Cat’s Paw Nebula or NGC 6334. This complex region of gas and dust, where numerous ...
- 08:18 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Concordia calling Altitude 3200 m, air pressure 645 hPa, minimum temperature –85°C, completely flat landscape, almost total isolation and virtually inaccessible from February to November. Welcome to the science paradise, Concordia research ...
- 06:30 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... "MICHIBIKI" Chosen as Nickname of the first Quasi-Zenith ... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) conducted a nickname campaign for the first Quasi-Zeni
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Schedules News Conference about Next Space Shuttle L...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Public Invited to Pick Pixels on Mars – Scientists Taking... The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... SOFIA Telescope Assembly Activated In Flight NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy successfully completed telescope assembly activation during an almost six-hour test flight Jan. 15.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Invites Public to Pick Pixels on Mars The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public.
- 00:00 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... SSTL restructures business for strategic growth Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has restructured its business, forming two new business units to manage continuing growth in its Earth Observation and Science and Telecommunications missions.
19 Jan 2010
- 23:00 UTC ESA Top News Spacecraft dockings improve car assembly The next car comes down the conveyor belt ready for the dashboard to be added. Speed and position are controlled as if it were a spacecraft docking automatically with the ...
- 23:00 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Spacecraft dockings improve car assembly The next car comes down the conveyor belt ready for the dashboard to be added. Speed and position are controlled as if it were a spacecraft docking automatically with the ...
- 20:08 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Weak Lensing Gains Strength Berkeley Lab cosmologists were part of an international team that has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, improving ...
- 18:00 UTC National Radio Astr... West Virginia Student Discovers New Pulsar A West Virginia high-school student has discovered a new pulsar, using data from the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Shay Bloxton, 15, a participant in a project ...
- 10:31 UTC ESA Top News Proba-2’s first achievements to be unveiled Proba-2 is among the smallest spacecraft ever launched by ESA – less than a cubic metre – but it prepares technologies for future ESA missions, as well as giving scientists ...