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1. 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

2. NASA Launches Interactive Simulation Of Satellite Communications

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   ... 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Chilean Telescopes OK, ESO Reports

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    The ESO Very Large Array atop Cerro Paranal, northern Chile (ESO). The European Southern Observatory, which has several telescopes housed in the mountains of Chile, issued a press release that none of ... Sunday, 28 February 2010

11. Chilean Telescopes OK, ESO, Gemini Report

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    The ESO Very Large Array atop Cerro Paranal, northern Chile (ESO). The European Southern Observatory, which has several telescopes housed in the mountains of Chile, issued a press release that none of ... Sunday, 28 February 2010

12. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravity, Schmavity

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... of upwardly-mobile objects to reverse course in mid-flight and return to the surface is, to say the least, remarkable.(...) Read the rest of Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravity, Schmavity (540 words) ... Sunday, 28 February 2010

13. The Possibility of a Brand New World

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... emerges about one billion years from now. The above image is a composite of images taken in infrared light by the Spitzer Space Telescope, ultraviolet light by the GALEX space telescope, and visible light ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

14. Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies Finally Come Together

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    ... Space Telescope, Spitzer, Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), and Swift show that there are 'living galaxy fossils' in our own backyard! (...) Read the rest of Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

15. Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way

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    A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius. The Milky Way ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

16. The Father Of Arecibo Observatory Dies At 92

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... Engineering at Cornell in 1958 when he began designing the radio telescope to study the Earth's upper atmosphere and nearby space. ... Monday, 22 February 2010

17. Universe Puzzle No. 2

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... some lateral thinking. And a reminder: this is a puzzle on a "Universal" topic – astronomy and astronomers; space, satellites, missions, and astronauts; planets, moons, telescopes, and ... Sunday, 21 February 2010

18. All-Sky Radio Image in 60 Seconds, No Moving Parts

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... says James Anderson, project manager of the Effelsberg LOFAR station. "The ability to make all-sky images in just seconds is a tremendous advancement compared to existing radio telescopes which often ... Sunday, 21 February 2010

19. Massive Stars' Magnetically Controlled Diets

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 - A team of astronomers, led by Dr. Wouter Vlemmings at Bonn University, has used the MERLIN radio telescope network centered on the Jodrell Bank Observatory to show ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

20. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Don’t Make a Meal of It

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    ... A Telescope – Don’t Make a Meal of It (501 words) © Steve Nerlich for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh ... Thursday, 18 February 2010