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1. Into the Looking Glass

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... in space. This helps predict how well the telescope will image infrared sources. The mirrors are designed to stay cold to allow scientists to observe the infrared light they reflect using a telescope and ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

2. WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey

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   ... on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission have no pity for you. Their spacecraft just finished photographing the entire sky in exquisite detail: a total of 1.3 million photos. "The ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

3. Boatload of Herschel Science Papers Released

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   ... are dedicated to observations of many astronomical targets from bodies in the Solar System to distant galaxies. Herschel is the only space observatory to cover a spectral range from the far infrared to ... Friday, 16 July 2010

4. In the Constellation Cassiopeia

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   ... dust within the cloud radiates infrared light. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010

5. A Matter of Perspective

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   The Seagull nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, draws its common name from it resemblance to a gull in flight. But it depends on your point of ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

6. Astronomers Witness Star Birth

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   ... DR21 in Infrared) Credit: A. Marston (ESTEC/ESA) et al., JPL, Caltech, NASA Astronomers have glimpsed into the earliest stages of star formation, and have seen what could be the youngest known star at ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

7. Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy

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   The new VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured a great new image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253), and this video allows ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

8. Lagoons of New Caledonia

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... in the world With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and ... Monday, 07 June 2010

9. Tropical Cyclone Phet Intensifies

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... Like Agatha Christie, the famous mystery writer, Agatha was somewhat of a forecasting mystery. NASA's infrared satellite data showed a strong area of thunderstorms in the middle of Agatha's remnants ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

10. Novel Observing Mode On XMM-Newton Opens New Perspectives On Galaxy Clusters

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... a large number of clusters in optical and near-infrared wavelengths, thanks to its wide field of view, and to identify their redshifts. This first discovery is thus a preview of future galaxy cluster surveys ... Monday, 31 May 2010

11. Small Near-Earth Object Probably A Rocket Part

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... by astronomer S.J. Bus, using the NASA-sponsored Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, indicate that 2010 KQ's spectral characteristics do not match any of the known asteroid types, and the ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

12. 'First Light' As SOFIA Completes Observation Flight

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    Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 31, 2010 - The German-American Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, completed an important milestone by achieving 'first light' when it performed its first ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

13. SOFIA Sees First Light

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    With a NASA F/A-18 flying safety chase nearby, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA – flies a test mission over the Mojave Desert with the sliding door over its 17-ton infrared ... Friday, 28 May 2010

14. NASA Satellite Spots Oil At Mississippi Delta Mouth

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    ... matter in the coastal waters. With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

15. Swift Survey Finds Smoking Gun Of Black Hole Activation

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    ... be sure they had counted the majority of the AGN. Thick clouds of dust and gas surround the black hole in an active galaxy, which can block ultraviolet, optical and low-energy, or soft X-ray, light. Infrared ... Wednesday, 26 May 2010

16. Bright Galaxies Like To Stick Together

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    ... the confusion of our own Galaxy. Galaxies which are brightest at Herschel's far-infrared wavelengths are typically seen as they were around 10 billion years ago, the light having been travelling towards ... Wednesday, 26 May 2010

17. Galaxies Like Grains of Sand in New Herschel Image

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... a galaxy containing billions of stars. These are distant luminous infrared galaxies, and appear as they did 10–12 billion years ago, packed together like grains of sand on a beach, forming large clusters ... Wednesday, 26 May 2010

18. New Video Of First US Weather Satellite

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2010 - The Television Infrared Observation Satellite, known as TIROS-1, was the world's first weather satellite. Fifty years ago in 1960 it lifted off from Cape Canaveral, ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010

19. WISE Makes Progress On Its Space Rock Catalog

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    Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2010 - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is busy surveying the landscape of the infrared sky, building up a catalog of cosmic specimens - everything from ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010

20. NASA's Airborne Observatory Prepares For Debut Flight

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    Ithaca NY (SPX) May 26, 2010 - When the first photons meet the 2.7-meter telescope aboard SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, in flight May 25, it will be the long-awaited result ... Tuesday, 25 May 2010