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  • 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...
  • Deep Imapct Searching for Alien Planets
    News - 8 Feb 2008
    NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called EPOXI. Deep Impact made history when...
  • Mars in 3D
    News - 6 Feb 2008
    Mars is about to come into 3D focus as never before, thanks to the data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). A new high-resolution Digital Terrain Model data set that has just...
  • Shedding Light on Mysterious Dark Energy
    News - 28 Jan 2008
    Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution and motions of thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. This opens fascinating perspectives to better...
  • First High-Resolution Image of Mercury
    News - 24 Jan 2008
    One week ago, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high-resolution image of Mercury by a spacecraft in over 30 years, since the three Mercury flybys of Mariner 10 in 1974 and...
  • Lines of Pure Mass-Energy Stretching Across the Entire Universe
    News - 18 Jan 2008
    A team of physicists and astronomers from the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the...
  • MESSENGER Spacecraft Makes its First Flyby of Mercury
    News - 15 Jan 2008
    A University of Michigan space instrument will take the first direct measurements of the planet Mercury's wispy atmosphere and space environment on Jan. 14, when NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft...
  • New Capabilities Enhance Astronomers' Views of the Universe
    News - 15 Jan 2008
    Starting January 19, Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii's planetarium will be the first in the world to have 3D stereoscopic capabilities, revolutionizing the planetarium industry. The new system...
  • A New X-Ray Source in the Galaxy
    News - 10 Jan 2008
    Astronomers studying a nearby galaxy have spied a rare type of star system -- one that contains a black hole that suddenly began glowing brightly with X-rays. Though this type of star system is...

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