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UW Planetarium Receives $875,000 Gift from Windy Ridge Foundation

An $875,000 gift from the Windy Ridge Foundation will modernize and transform the University of Wyoming Planetarium through a comprehensive renovation of the existing space and extensive technological upgrades.

21 Nov 2013

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Asteroid with Six Comet-Like Tails of Radiating Dust

Astronomers viewing our solar system's asteroid belt with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have seen for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel.

8 Nov 2013

International SKA Office Commences Award of Contracts for World’s Largest Radio Telescope

The international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) office awarded contracts to prepare for the world’s largest radio telescope yesterday, marking the start of the return on Australia and WA’s investment in the ambitious Square Kilometre Array.

6 Nov 2013

SoloHI CMOS Imager Technology Delivered to NRL for Solar Orbiter Space Mission

SRI International, working with specialty foundry leader TowerJazz, has delivered the first complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager engineering units to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for use on the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) optical telescope. With its large field of view, SoloHI will make high-resolution images of the corona and solar wind and be able to connect remote sensing observations of the corona to the plasma being measured in situ at the spacecraft.

4 Nov 2013

Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra Space Telescopes Team Up to Look Deeper into Universe

NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from natural "zoom lenses" found in space, they should be able to uncover galaxies that are as much as 100 times fainter than what these three great observatories typically can see.

25 Oct 2013

End of Operations for Planck Space Telescope

The Planck space telescope has been turned off after spending nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies throughout the history of the universe.

25 Oct 2013

Astronomers Identify Very Distant Galaxy Using Images Taken by Hubble Space Telescope

University of California, Riverside astronomers Bahram Mobasher and Naveen Reddy are members of a team that has discovered the most distant galaxy ever found. The galaxy is seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about 5 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years.

24 Oct 2013

First Mapping of Cloud Distribution on Exoplanet Using Kepler Telescope’s Optical Data

On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits a star nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth, is heavily overcast on one side, while the other side likely enjoys clear, cloudless weather.

3 Oct 2013

Brunson Adds Next-Gen AlignCam System to Line of Alignment Telescopes

Brunson Instrument Company today announced the release of their next-gen AlignCam system for Brunson’s current line of alignment telescopes, levels and transits. This new product line is a signature development for Brunson alignment tools utilized every day by service organizations, and maintenance and reliability professionals.

1 Oct 2013

Solar Observatory Sunrise Provides High-Resolution Images of Sun’s Chromosphere

Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise – carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 -- scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere.

30 Sep 2013

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