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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) say that they want to create a new type of telescope technology, one that would enable them to complete Phoenix. The latter is a project that seeks to reclaim and reuse old satellite parts for creating new spacecraft.
These new vehicles would b... |
21 January 2012
05:27 GMT |
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The successor NASA plans for the Hubble Space Telescope will continue to receive funding throughout 2012, representatives from the American space agency announced recently. Still, this was not the only problem plaguing the project, and its fate has yet to be fully decided.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is o... |
17 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Experts operating the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft just released this amazing new vista of the Milky Way, covering more than 1,000 square degrees of the night sky, and depicting multiple stellar nurseries in our galaxy.
The photo reveals numerous hollowed-out regions of space, which as... |
11 January 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Officials with the governing body of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently approved the organization's 2012 spending plan, which certified that construction on the largest telescope in the world will begin next year.
With the necessary funds secured, engineers will begin laying the foundation for th... |
30 December 2011
03:07 GMT |
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This amazing image reveals the Barnard 3 nebula in exquisite detail, as it appears in its entirety in the night sky. The object is located about 1,000 light-years away from the band of the Milky Way, and is considered to be a stellar nursery.
Objects such as these are rather common. However, Barnard 3 is special du... |
27 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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The NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) development program has reached a new milestone recently, when both the primary and secondary mirrors that will go on the massive observatory successfully completed cryogenic testing. This phase is absolutely essential for the good functioning of the JWST, which will be th... |
22 December 2011
03:31 GMT |
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The Vatican and the European Space Agency (ESA) are working together to digitize a large number of ancient books stored in the Vatican Library. The manuscripts are extremely sensitive, but the Holy See wants to preserve them for future generations. ESA is contributing to this by using a special scanning and data-stor... |
19 December 2011
05:46 GMT |
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The Center of Curvature Optical Assembly (COCOA) tool will be used on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) this winter, when engineers building the massive space observatory will test to see whether its mirrors are perfectly shaped and aligned or not.
Having a correct mirror alignment tends to be rather impor... |
15 December 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, which is working under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop the Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) telescope, announces the completion of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR).
This is a critically important milestone fo... |
13 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Engineers with the Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the 14 tubes, which would make up half of the Mid Boom Assembly on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), had just been completed. This marks an important milestone in the observatory's development.
The MBA is made up of 14 graphite composite ... |
12 December 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Next year will see construction work beginning on a road that will connect the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) site at Cerro Armazones with the rest of Chile. In addition, development work will begin on certain high-tech components that will go on the instrument.
At this time, constructing the telescope ... |
9 December 2011
09:26 GMT |
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Analysts studying datasets relayed back by the NASA Kepler Telescope say that the number of false-positive results in the readings is very small. That is to say, there are very high chances that the vast majority of exoplanetary candidates the mission proposes will be confirmed. A false-positive result in this scen... |
6 December 2011
08:41 GMT |
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After an anomaly that occurred on May 24 affected the power generation system aboard the Akari infrared space telescope, officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) finally admitted defeat. They announced last week that the telescope has been shut down after 5+ years of mission.
The spacecraft was la... |
29 November 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Astronomers are excited to announce that worldwide databases now contain the names and locations of more than 700 extrasolar planets. These catalogs contain everything from small, Earth-like objects to massive gas giants and hot Jupiters.
The first exoplanet was confirmed beyond any doubt back in 1992, and the pace... |
22 November 2011
08:56 GMT |
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) construction process can now continue at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Recently, an impressive steel structure was delivered to a clean room at the Center, on which the telescope's components will be mounted.
The steel frame is called the optical assembly sta... |
18 November 2011
03:58 GMT |
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The Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Tim de Zeeuw, and the Alfredo Moreno, the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed a new agreement yesterday, October 13, in Santiago, Chile, regarding the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).
This installation will be the largest, most amb... |
14 October 2011
08:51 GMT |
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University of Washington associate professor of astronomy Eric Agol suggests that it may be a lot easier for astronomers to look for and identify extrasolar planets around ancient stars called white dwarfs. He says that exoplanets might reveal themselves a lot faster than usual at these locations.
White dwarfs are... |
16 September 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Amidst concerns that the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) might be canceled, a recent report provides another blow for the already-battered project. According to new estimates, the life cycle costs associated with the mission have soared from $6.5 billion to $8.7 billion.The document comes at the most inappropr... |
23 August 2011
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A new Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between XCOR Aerospace and the Planetary Science Institute (PSI). The document states that the human-operated Atsa Suborbital Observatory will conduct a series of observations from aboard Lynx spacecraft operated by XCOR.The understanding calls for PSI to have access ... |
12 July 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Operations at the Subaru Telescope, the flagship installation that the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) operates atop Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, have been discontinued on account of a significant hardware error. The 8.2-meter telescope experienced a major leak of ethylene glycol from its top unit. Operato... |
6 July 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Experts with the American space agency announce that the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has just produced a new set if images depicting a double nebula located relatively close to Earth. The murky area of stellar formation is thus brought back into the spotlight.From afar, the cosmic structure looks like a pair of weir... |
30 June 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Rather than trying so hard to discover Earth-analogs among the thousands of proposed extrasolar planets telescopes are bound to discover, astrobiologists should focus their efforts on extrasolar moons, which may be primed candidate locations to allow for the existence of life. Exomoons can be found in orbit around ex... |
21 June 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Earlier this week, the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program achieved an important milestone, when the first batch of segments that will go on to form the spacecraft's main mirror managed to successfully pass cryogenic tests.
The assessments were designed in such a way that they mimicked the conditi... |
18 June 2011
06:38 GMT |
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The University of California in Berkeley (UCB) Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) has recently posted a new image of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula on its website. The photograph was taken with the NASA Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite. The spacecraft, which launched on December 14, 2009, has been ... |
13 June 2011
03:47 GMT |
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is proud to announce the inauguration of the latest addition to its Chile-based Paranal Observatory. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) Survey Telescope (VST) is one of the most advanced astronomical units ever created. Just a few days ago, the new instrument released its first ima... |
8 June 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Astronomers in Canada announce the discovery of a new, interesting phenomenon at the heart of Wolf-Rayet stars. They say that the study which came at these conclusions was carried out using the MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of STars) microsatellite, the country's only space telescope.Wolf-Rayet stars a... |
1 June 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Spanish researchers announce the development of a new tracking technique, that can be used to determine the motion of objects and spacecraft in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO). The method could also be used for tracking space debris, its creators explain.
The researchers who created the new approach are based at ... |
28 May 2011
03:54 GMT |
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The hardware structure that will support the scientific payload on the American space agency's next-generation space telescope has recently been put through its paces at a NASA science facility. The component managed to finish all assessments with flying colors. The reason why NASA is conducting these tests is t... |
27 May 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Astronomers have now set their eyes on developing methods of identifying signs of multicellular life on the extrasolar planets they are seeing. To that end, a group of experts recently developed a new mathematical technique, that could allow for scientists to identify such objects. In the early days of exoplanetary r... |
20 May 2011
05:06 GMT |
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Due to lack of funding, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) has been put into what experts at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) are calling a safe mode. This means that the equipment at the northern California site will be kept minimally operational, by a heavily reduced staff. This measure ensures that... |
26 April 2011
09:37 GMT |
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In a recent series of scientific observations of the night sky, astronomers managed to capture an amazing image of a pair of galaxies. The members in this group are locked together in a dance that will most likely lead to a merger in the distant future.The two formations are currently located fairly close to each oth... |
21 April 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Over the past couple of years or so, the threat of space junk and debris has been looming increasingly threatening above our planet, and astronomers have been growing equally as concerned about this. Now, an American agency is trying to set the foundations of a new monitoring network. The US Defense Advanced Research... |
15 April 2011
04:26 GMT |
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A group of experts from NASA has released data collected by the WISE telescope to the international astronomical community. Members of the team say that this will undoubtedly result in numerous discoveries, considering that that observatory was able to image hundreds of millions of objects. The Wide-field Infrared Su... |
15 April 2011
04:09 GMT |
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By 2014, the world's first Internet telescope will be constructed high up in the Chilean Andes. The instrument will pour terabytes of data directly into the hands of individual users, with no restrictions on the data being supplied.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be constructed in the Atacam... |
9 April 2011
04:12 GMT |
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Last week, astronomers observed a massive, extremely energetic explosion in space. They now say that it may have been produced just as a massive star was destroyed by a black hole, which will now grow even more because it will have more “feeding” material at its disposal.Experts are still surprised by the... |
8 April 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Skywatchers and amateur astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere will soon be able to see components of the Coma/Virgo supercluster, one of the largest structures in the observable Universe. The objects will start to become visible throughout this spring.Also called the “Realm of Galaxies,” the supercluster... |
21 March 2011
04:09 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency say that their planet-hunting telescope has experienced a sudden “safe mode” event recently, during a planned communications sessions scheduled for March 14.As experts were trying to contact the Kepler Space Telescope in the Sun's orbit, the spacecraft experienc... |
18 March 2011
12:09 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA Hubble Space Telescope announce that they were recently able to calculate the expansion rate of the Universe with great precision. In the process, the group was able to rule out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy.This is the force that astrophysicists believe is responsibl... |
15 March 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Recently, the American space agency announced that the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered more than 1,200 exoplanet candidates thus far. Now, telescopes around the world participate in confirming the existence of these objects.In order for a body to be classified as a candidate, reasons must exist for astronomers... |
15 February 2011
06:55 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that their Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has taken its last image on February 1, 2011. From now on, the telescope will be retired, after spending just 13 months in space. The instrument served a dual purpose for NASA. It carried out a complete survey of the... |
12 February 2011
05:35 GMT |
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Experts with the American space agency just published a new image of the North American Nebula, which shows a very large number of stars living together as one big, happy family. Most stellar types are present in the view, which was captured using the infrared NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.The stellar nursery got its ... |
11 February 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency are hopeful that their next space observatory will be able to exceed all existing telescopes, and peer farther and deeper into the early days of the Universe.
The instrument could for example confirm the finding of the oldest galaxy yet, which astronomers operating the NASA ... |
1 February 2011
01:49 GMT |
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Determining the distance various objects are from Earth is a critical component of astronomical studies, and one of the key traits of space studies. However, establishing these distances is not easy, and now experts are working on developing a new method that will aid them in this regard. Astronomers are working on c... |
31 January 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Astronomers operating a large telescope in the Southern Hemisphere are delighted to announce that their instrument is about to become even more efficient at observing the night sky. This will happen when it receives a new constellation of sodium laser beams to help point its “eyes.”
The addition of the... |
29 January 2011
02:26 GMT |
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In mid-December 2010, astronomers reported the development of a massive storm in the atmosphere of the gas giant Saturn, one of the largest planets in our solar system. The atmospheric structure has since grown to impressive size, reaching a diameter more than ten times that of Earth's.Last year, the beginning o... |
28 January 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Astronomers analyzing the behavior the comet 17P/Holmes exhibited during its last three visits to the inner solar system say that we might see the celestial body blow up in 2014, when it heads towards the Sun for another pass. The object revealed a mysterious and amazing flare three times before, while flying by the ... |
26 January 2011
08:55 GMT |
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Scientists have shown in a newly-published paper that the rare Earth theory, stating that life only exists on our planet, is narrowly-focused, misleading, and ignorant of a number of facts. The experts add that, in all likelihood, life abounds in the Cosmos. Howard Alan Smith, PhD, a senior astrophysicist at the Harv... |
26 January 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and the University Observatory Munich now have every reason to be proud – their new spectrograph was successfully installed on an American telescope, where it has already produced its “first light” study.The VIRUS-W instrument... |
25 January 2011
17:01 GMT |
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The Cosmic X-ray Background (CXRB) permeates the Universe, and some of its sources have been known for years. But it's only know that astrophysicists manage to confirm an older theory, showing that hidden black holes are partially responsible for the background's existence.Investigators say that supermassiv... |
21 January 2011
08:13 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, a group of investigators has established from astronomical studies that the fine-structure constant (FSC) of the Universe is not the same now as it was a short while after the Big Band. This implies that not all laws of nature are the same over a lot of time and space.These conclusions ... |
13 January 2011
10:54 GMT |
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