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  • Discovery of High-Energy X-Rays Coming from Our Cosmic Doorstep
    News - 20 Feb 2008
    ESA's Integral has made the first unambiguous discovery of high-energy X-rays coming from a rare massive star at our cosmic doorstep, Eta Carinae. It is one of the most violent places in the...
  • SIDECAR Provides Better Images to Earth
    News - 20 Feb 2008
    Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the...
  • Telescopes on the Far Side of the Moon
    News - 19 Feb 2008
    NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the...
  • 67 Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies Discovered by Hubble
    News - 19 Feb 2008
    The lenses come from a recently completed, large set of observations as part of a huge project to survey a single 1.6 square degree field of sky (nine times the area of the full Moon) with several...
  • Solving the Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts
    News - 17 Feb 2008
    UK space scientist Emeritus Professor Alan Wells is to speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston in February on: International Cooperation in Developing Swift...
  • Designing Next Generation Space Telescopes
    News - 16 Feb 2008
    Two astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Marc Postman and Dr. Ken Sembach, have been selected among 19 science teams to conduct year-long studies of new...
  • High Precision Optical Component of Choice
    News - 14 Feb 2008
    Off-axis parabolic mirrors from Optical Surfaces Ltd. are the high precision optical component of choice for applications including high power laser focusing, focusing upon astronomical objects,...
  • NICMOS Reveals Detailed Images of Infant Galaxy
    News - 12 Feb 2008
    Detailed images from Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) reveal an infant galaxy, dubbed A1689-zD1, undergoing a firestorm of star birth as it comes out of the...
  • First Steps in the Cosmic Distance Ladder
    News - 11 Feb 2008
    Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that...
  • Listening to the Sound of a Celestial Black Hole
    News - 9 Feb 2008
    Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse University's Department of Physics may help them identify the sound of a celestial black hole. The supercomputer, dubbed SUGAR (SU...

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