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1. Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D

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   This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

2. NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes

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   ... NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will provide a better understanding of the roots of our universe, and how the very first black holes, galaxies and stars came to be. ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

3. Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes

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   ... Space Telescope has found what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. "We have found what are likely first-generation quasars, born in a dust-free medium ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

4. New Hubble Treasury Project To Survey First Third Of Cosmic Time

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   ... an unprecedented amount of time on the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

5. See Spot On Jupiter. See Spot Glow

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   Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2010 - New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

6. New Images Unlock Secrets of Jupiter's Red Spot

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   New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Image credit: NASA/JPL/ESO and NASA/ESA/GSFC ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

7. New Hubble Project Will Survey Beginnings of Cosmic Time

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   This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows three rings of glowing gas encircling the site of Supernova 1987A, a star which exploded in February 1987. Credit: Dr. Christopher Burrows, ESA/STScI and NASA ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

8. The Wizard Nebula

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... other infrared missions in space -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission. WISE is different from these missions in that it will survey the ... Monday, 15 March 2010

9. Universe Puzzle No. 5

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... is a puzzle on a "Universal" topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; planets, moons, telescopes, and so on. What do the following have in common? ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

10. A Deep Sky Celebration…

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... side of the Hubble Space Telescope. This northern California resident embarked on his celestial imaging journey almost a decade ago and his work graces everything from magazines to NASA's "Astronomy ... Saturday, 13 March 2010

11. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup

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    ... first second after the big bang.(...) Read the rest of Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup (504 words) © Steve Nerlich for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment ... Saturday, 13 March 2010

12. World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC"

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a decade ago astronomers formed the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope consortium to understand Nature's Death Ray Gun ... Thursday, 11 March 2010

13. NASA Launches Interactive Simulation Of Satellite Communications

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

14. Universe Puzzle No. 4

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... is a puzzle on a "Universal" topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; planets, moons, telescopes, and so on. What's the next number in the sequence? ... Monday, 08 March 2010

15. Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Hitchhikers Guide To The Solar System

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    ... Without A Telescope – The Hitchhikers Guide To The Solar System (571 words) © Steve Nerlich for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by ... Saturday, 06 March 2010

16. Winds of Change

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... heat the ouflowing gas, causing it to glow at lower X-ray energies. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in red, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope in green and radio data ... Thursday, 04 March 2010

17. NASA's Fermi Probes "Dragons" Of The Gamma-Ray Sky

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    ... Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope find themselves in the same situation as cartographers of old. ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

18. Next Gen X-ray Telescope To Be Unveiled

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    ... high energy astrophysicists. IXO is the next generation X-ray telescope slated for development by the space agency. ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

19. Webb Telescope's First Primary Mirror Meets Cold Temperature Specifications

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    Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - The James Webb Space Telescope reached a mission-readiness landmark today when its first primary mirror segment was cryo-polished to its required prescription as measured ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

20. Universe Puzzle No. 3

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... planets, moons, telescopes, and so on. So "ice" is certainly one answer (it's the only one-syllable word), but not, perhaps, the best answer! If you think the answer to this puzzle is ... Sunday, 28 February 2010