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"The next step is to do more experiments and try additional techniques that give [very high] resolution so we can understand the shapes and microstructures... of the wadsleyite crystals.". Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Science)
Volcanoes and lakes in new Titan images Aug 11, 2009
New ultra-high resolution radar images of the surface of Saturn s moon Titan showing the effects of icy cryovolcanoes are being presented this week at the International Astronomical Union s General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro. Ammonia frosts have been detected evaporating on the frigid surface of Titan close to known cryovolcanoes in the Hotei regio area of the moon by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer on NASA s Cassini spacecraft, which can see through Titan s thick atmosphere. (Astronomy Now Online)
Unveiling the true face of a gigantic star Aug 8, 2009
An international team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, has made the most high resolution images of a dying giant star to date ... By combining two or more telescopes as a so-called interferometer, astronomers can achieve a much higher resolution than provided with individual telescopes. (EurekAlert!)
AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009 Aug 7, 2009
Using images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Di Achille et al. report direct evidence of lake strandlines in Mars's Shalbatana Vallis ... Title: Tomographic filtering of high-resolution mantle circulation models: Can seismic heterogeneity be explained by temperature alone ... Proposed space missions could soon be able to measure sea surface height (SSH) with resolution as high as 10 kilometers (6. (EurekAlert!)
Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft Aug 7, 2009
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument is a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer designed to provide the first map of the entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolution. Scientists will use this information to answer questions about the moon's origin and development and the evolution of terrestrial planets in the early solar system. (Science Daily)
Betelgeuse: A Hotheaded Superstar Aug 4, 2009
The resolution is 37 milliarcseconds, roughly the size of a tennis ball on the International Space Station (ISS) as seen from the ground ... In January, Pierre Kervella (Paris Observatory) and six colleagues used an adaptive-optics system on one of the giant eyes of the Very Large Telescope to achieve a resolution of 0 ... Using this setup's resolution of just 0. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Sharpest Views Of Star Betelgeuse Aug 3, 2009
The resolution is as fine as 37 milliarcseconds, which is roughly the size of a tennis ball on the International Space Station (ISS), as seen from the ground ... With such superb resolution, the astronomers were able to detect indirectly details four times finer still than the amazing NACO images had already allowed (in other words, the size of a marble on the ISS, as seen from the ground) ... 10, 2008) Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high... (Science Daily)
No Dark Matter Origin For Mystery Radiation Aug 2, 2009
Integral s unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution showed that it strongly peaks towards the centre of the Galaxy, with an asymmetry along the Galactic disc. Several researchers have invoked a variety of dark matter to explain Integral s observations. (Science Daily)
Unveiling the true face of Betelgeuse Aug 1, 2009
The resulting images have a resolution as fine as 37 milli-arcseconds, which is roughly the size of a tennis ball on the International Space Station, as seen from the ground. Orion is easily recognisable by the three stars that make up the Hunter's belt, with red Betelgeuse riding on the Hunter's shoulder, indicated by the marker (left image). (Astronomy Now Online)
Glowing scar is revealing Jupiter's secrets Jul 25, 2009
A spokesman for the Baltimore institute said Thursday that although instruments aboard Hubble are still being checked out, astronomers have decided that the telescope's Wide Field camera is in good enough shape to start observing the crash site at very high resolution. No date has yet been set for Hubble to take its first look at the scar, he said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
NRL scientist receives patent for rugged-lightweight spectrometer assembly Jul 23, 2009
Due to its compact size, ruggedness and sensitivity, SHS is especially well suited for high resolution, space- and ground-based spectroscopy of diffuse sources, including atmospheric emissions or trace gas absorptions. Field-widened spatial heterodyne spectroscopy was conceived in the late 1980s by Fred Roesler, professor of astrophysics at University of Wisconsin and John Harlander, current professor of physics, astronomy and engineering science at St. Cloud State University, Minn. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
God's eye flashes over Varanasi Jul 22, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. While clouds blotted out the view in most parts of India, the century's most spectacular total eclipse of the Sun was witnessed in full glory in the holy city. (India Times, India)
What does the Sun mean to your heart? Jul 22, 2009
What does the Sun mean to your heart. - Health - Health & Science - NEWS - The Times of India. (India Times, India)
Jupiter hit by an object Jul 22, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Astronomers say Jupiter has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
A dying star 'may have given birth to solar system' Jul 22, 2009
A dying star 'may have given birth to solar system. PTI 21 July 2009, 12:14pm IST. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Eclipse not visible in Taregna Jul 22, 2009
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. An overcast sky disappointed hundreds of those gathered here to watch the longest solar eclipse of the century early this morning. (India Times)
Comment: To Boldly Go Jul 21, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Despite hurdles, humanity must continue its love affair with space exploration. (India Times, India)
At Last, 40 Years Later: Apollo Landers Seen on the Moon Jul 21, 2009
The latter are designed to achieve a pixel resolution of 1 meter (3 feet) on the ground. Naturally enough, some early targets for the Narrow Angle Cameras have been the various Apollo landing sites. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Australia keeps space dream alive with huge telescope investment Jul 20, 2009
When completed in 2018 it is expected to have 30 times the power of current land-based optical telescopes, 10 times the resolution of the Hubble space telescope and five times the resolution of the James Webb space telescope expected to replace the Hubble in 2014. The Government is providing the $88. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Tuvalu seeks clean power Jul 20, 2009 First Look At The Apollo Landing Sites Jul 18, 2009 Herschel Images Promise Bright Future Jul 13, 2009 Martian sand dunes fixed in place Jul 11, 2009 "Space Internet" to link planets by 2011 Jul 10, 2009 Herschel captures galaxy image Jul 2, 2009 Search for Earth-sized planets around other stars Jun 27, 2009 U.S. Physicians Join Light-Pollution Fight Jun 23, 2009 NASA Returns to the Moon Jun 22, 2009 Moon's Permanently Dark Craters 'Illuminated' Jun 22, 2009 Herschel Space Telescope Opens Its 'Eyes' Jun 20, 2009 NASA starts back to moon Jun 19, 2009 Planetary Preemies? Jun 18, 2009 Nonexpanding metal using high pressure created Jun 17, 2009 Rocket takes aim at moon's surface Jun 17, 2009 > read more Jun 16, 2009 * Scientists describe new telescope Jun 3, 2009 Meteoroids made Earth habitable Jun 2, 2009 Earth is 1st stop as probe looks for other worlds Jun 2, 2009 Scientist develop technique to find water outside earth Jun 1, 2009 World's strongest laser unveiled at California lab Jun 1, 2009 US lab debuts super laser May 31, 2009 MJ Akbar: Muslim Code Bill in India? May 31, 2009 COMMENT: Let's Work Out Love May 30, 2009 EDIT: Eyes In The Skies May 30, 2009 Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in five years May 28, 2009 NASA/University team develops new method to find alien oceans May 27, 2009 Historic Hubble Servicing Mission 4 Ends With Successful Landing May 26, 2009 Scientists snapshot life on Mars May 26, 2009 Atlantis Astronauts Install Ball Aerospace's WFC3 and COS Aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope May 25, 2009 Rain or shine, Atlantis to attempt landing Sunday May 25, 2009 Atlantis ready to return to Earth May 22, 2009 LISD honors students, teachers for success May 21, 2009 US astronauts equip Hubble on third spacewalk May 18, 2009 Astronauts wrap up 4th spacewalk to repair Hubble May 18, 2009 Spacewalkers pull off toughest Hubble repairs yet May 18, 2009 Another spacewalk ahead today May 17, 2009 After camera, Hubble gets new gear to steady its gaze May 16, 2009 NRL part of multi-national team that launches Herschel Space Observatory May 15, 2009 Atlantis on track despite damage May 14, 2009 Two Spacecraft Set to Probe the Early Universe's Mysteries May 14, 2009 First Two ALMA Antennas Successfully Linked May 14, 2009 Honoring Holocaust victims, urging two-state solution May 12, 2009 Nasa set for most dangerous mission to repair Hubble May 12, 2009 Basketballs on their way to space May 11, 2009 Looking Up: Thirsty? Astronomers look to the moon May 10, 2009 Herschel And Planck Share Ride To Space May 10, 2009 Creating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets May 8, 2009 Far UV detector built by UC Berkeley is part of new instrument to be installed on Hubble May 8, 2009 Europe is about to take an astronomical lead over U.S. May 7, 2009 Telescopes to peek into future May 5, 2009 British space mission to uncover 'secrets of universe' May 4, 2009 Atlantis scheduled for May 11 launch, says NASA May 2, 2009 Unusual Impact Basin Discovered On Mercury May 1, 2009 Missing planets suggest stars 'eat' their young Apr 30, 2009 Stars 'eat up' planets that venture close to them Apr 30, 2009 Res00004000olution would end shuttle deadline Apr 29, 2009 Cosmic 'Fountain Of Youth' Spied By Hubble Space Telescope Apr 28, 2009 Shadow Of A Forming Star Apr 28, 2009 Magic in gamma ray astronomy Apr 28, 2009 Super stargazer Apr 20, 2009 US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon Apr 18, 2009 Titanium reveals explosive origin of solar system Apr 18, 2009 Mars Spacecraft Teams On Alert For Dust-Storm Season Apr 17, 2009 High-resolution Image Of The Brightest Orion Trapezium Star Apr 13, 2009
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The Pacific island state of Tuvalu set a goal of a 100% shift to renewable energy by 2020, hoping to set an example to industrialised nations to cut greenhouse gases it blames for rising sea levels. (India Times)
Raghu Krishnan: Crying for the moon! Jul 19, 2009
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The Moon belongs to humanity and not just governments. (India Times)
The orbiter's current elliptical orbit resulted in image resolutions from the NACs that were slightly different for each site but were all about four feet per pixel ... "In the current collection of images the best discrimination of features is in the Apollo 14 scene even though the highest resolution picture covers the Apollo 16 site." ... The resolution of future LROC images of these sites will improve by two to three times. (Science Daily)
HIFI provided excellent data in two different observing modes, returning information on the composition of the region with unprecedented accuracy and resolution. It works by zooming in on specific wavelengths, revealing different spectral lines that represent the fingerprints of atoms and molecules and even the physical conditions of the object observed. (Science Daily)
Dunes on the surface of Mars have been monitored since the first Viking mission in 1975, with recent detailed images attained from the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera flying on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Bourke suggests that the other factors limiting dune movement on Mars could include the planet s thin atmosphere, which requires very high wind speeds to provide the force needed to move sand, and the water and carbon-dioxide frosts that cover dunes in Mars polar... (Astronomy Now Online)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. NASA missions are planning to adopt the Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) system, or "Space Internet", which has the potential to link planets, by the year 2011. (India Times)
Professor David Southwood, director of science and robotic exploration at Esa, commented: "It's a wonderful image. It gives you some sense of the resolution we're going to get (with the Herschel telescope). "The red areas are those we have detected where we know star formation is going on. We're seeing the birth of stars already. (BBC News -- Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The Space Telescope Science Institute in US is partnering on a historic search for Earth-sized planets around other stars. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
In my capacity as president of the , and as an elected member of the AMA's Council on Science and Public health, I had submitted a resolution for consideration at the association's 2009 annual meeting. The proposal came before a Reference Committee, and to my delight those who testified during its presentation were all in favor of the resolution ... After deliberating, the Reference Committee forwarded the proposal for a floor vote, noting, in part, that "Excessive light pollution comprises an... (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Posted by marc June 19, 2009 At 08:38 AM PDT What is the expected resolution of the digital imaging in the survey ... Posted by Grant Miller June 21, 2009 At 03:59 PM PDT The LRO will have the resolution to image the Apollo landers. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
ScienceDaily (June 22, 2009) A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed craters ... The color image on the right is the highest resolution topography map to date of the moon's south pole ... 28, 2008) NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per... (Science Daily)
The obvious advantage of the larger size of the telescope is clearly reflected in the much higher resolution of the images: Herschel reveals structures that cannot be discerned in a Spitzer image of M51. These images clearly demonstrate that the shorter the wavelength, the sharper the image this is a very important message about the quality of Herschel s optics, since PACS observes at Herschel s shortest wavelengths. (Science Daily)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. NASA launched a dual mission on Thursday to help pave the way for humans to return to the moon, as the US space agency looks beyond the continuing needs of the International Space Station. (India Times)
Andrews and collaborators used the interferometer on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to form images with a resolution of 0 ... Jack Lissauer (NASA) is impatient to see the analysis techniques of this paper applied to the higher-resolution data that will come from the upcoming ESO , now being built on a high plain in the Andes ... So the disk emission is not swamped by starlight contamination like in the optical (and we don't have to use a coronagraph); (2) the angular resolution is very high, thanks to the... (SkyAndTelescope.com)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Scientists have created a material using high pressure that does not expand when heated, and acts like a metal with an entirely different chemical composition. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
NASA's exploration office has already selected 50 areas of interest that LRO will map at the highest resolution, capable of clearly seeing objects the size of coffee tables. LRO will map topography, hot and cold spots and concentrations of minerals. (Florida Today)
Andrews and collaborators used the interferometer on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to form images with a resolution of 0 ... Jack Lissauer (NASA) is impatient to see the analysis techniques of this paper applied to the higher-resolution data that will come from the upcoming ESO , now being built on a high plain in the Andes. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
The revolutionary space telescope is an interferometer, meaning that information collected by two or more of the antennas are processed into a single, high-resolution system, Lu said ... When all 66 antennas are completed, the distance between them will be able to be adjusted according to the resolution the scientists desire, Lu said ... The longer the distance between two antennas, the better the resolution, but the smaller a region we can observe. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. According to a study large bombardments of meteoroids approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the Earth more habitable for life. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
"The spectral resolution and coverage we used will be close to optimal for ," Drake Deming, the spacecraft's deputy principal scientist, wrote in an e-mail to Discovery News. Follow-up investigations to assess the chemical makeup of a target planet's atmosphere and its surface composition would be needed before any definitive claim could be made that an alien planet has oceans. (MSNBC -- Technology)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. As scientists search for signs of life outside Earth, American researchers have developed a technique to find if any celestial body contains liquid water on its surface. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The world's most powerful laser, created to help keep tabs on the US nuclear weapons stockpile while also studying the heavens, has been unveiled. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. A US weapons lab pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. If Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation then Jawaharlal Nehru is the Father of the Modern Nation, for the alchemy of India's transformation into modern India can be sourced to the passage of the Hindu Code Bill. (India Times, India)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Looking at affairs of the heart, mathematically. (India Times, India)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The Hubble telescope has been cut loose but replacements are ready. (India Times, India)
Bower and his colleagues were studying the motion of M82 with the VLBA, which links the VLA and nine other radio telescopes into a very high resolution instrument, when they noticed a very bright radio source five times brighter than anything else in the galaxy in the VLA data. The team looked at earlier observations and found the same source, but almost twice as bright, in data taken May 3, 2008. (EurekAlert!)
"So how do we find out if it is capable of supporting life? If we can determine that the planet has oceans of liquid water, it greatly increases the likelihood that it supports life. We used the High Resolution Imager telescope on Deep Impact to look at Earth from tens of millions of miles away -- an 'alien' point of view -- and developed a method to indicate the presence of oceans by analyzing how Earth's light changes as the planet rotates. This method can be used to identify extrasolar... (EurekAlert!)
ACS's powerful imaging capabilities at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths are now both available, although its High Resolution Channel could not be fixed. ACS now perfectly complements the powerful new Wide Field Camera 3, and the duo will be vital for the study of dark energy and dark matter. (Science Daily)
25 May 2009, 1139 hrs IST, PTI. MELBOURNE: Planetary scientists have provided a view of what life may have looked like on ancient Earth and other planets in the solar system, including Mars. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), one of the original science instruments, removed in 1997. "The exceptional work performed by NASA's STS-125 astronauts during the long awaited servicing mission to Hubble is a reminder of what makes the U.S. space program great," said David L. Taylor, president and CEO of Ball Aerospace. (PR Newswire)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Rain or shine, the crew of the US space shuttle Atlantis will have to attempt to land Sunday after bad weather forced delays in their return to Earth for two consecutive days. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
The only disappointment was the failure to restore the high resolution channel (one of three) on Hubble's main camera - the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Cloudy skies and stormy weather could yet pose a problem for Friday's landing attempts, Nasa has said. (BBC News -- Americas)
In other business, the board approved four waiver applications and adopted a waiver resolution to address the time missed by students and teachers earlier this month because of the swine influenza outbreak. Students and teachers won t have to make up the time missed. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Spacewalking astronauts revived a crippled camera and installed a second new scientific inst 000015AB rument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, extending an ambitious effort by the crew of the shuttle Atlantis to overhaul the 19-year-old observatory into the weekend. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Two spacewalking astronauts overcame a stuck bolt, a fickle power tool and other aggravations to revive a long-inactive science instrument inside the Hubble Space Telescope. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Two channels -- wide-field and high-resolution -- were dead on the camera ... But they had held out a slight hope that fixing wide-field would somehow also work on the high-resolution ... Test results Saturday night showed that as expected the high resolution channel wasn't working, but it was too early to call it a failure. (KHOU.com, TX)
As for the camera repairs, there's still testing to see if work on the wide-field channel would fix a problem with the high resolution view. There wasn't time during the earlier spacewalk to address both problems. (WCAX.com, VT)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. A second pair of spacewalkers from the shuttle Atlantis tackled the most important task on Nasas fix-up list for the Hubble Space Telescope on Friday, installing new positioning gear to steady its gaze. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
However, because of its large size, required to increase the angular resolution and sensitivity of the Observatory, the Herschel telescope was designed for passive (radiative) cooling in space to an operating temperature of approximately 80 K, near the temperature of liquid nitrogen and still relatively cold ... Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS), three band camera and a low- to medium-spectral resolution integral field (5 X 5 pixel) spectrometer, covering the 55 210... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The space shuttle Atlantis crew raced toward a risky high-orbit rendezvous with the Hubble telescope on Wednesday despite damage found on the underside of their craft. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Planck will have three times the resolution of WMAP and will be far more sensitive than its precursor to the variations in temperature across the CMB.. "Whereas WMAP has measured roughly 10 percent of the information that we can obtain from the CMB temperature fluctuations, Planck should measure essentially all of it," says project scientist of JPL, Goldsmith's counterpart on the Planck mission. (Scientific American)
ALMA will operate as an interferometer, capturing millimetre and submillimetre wavelength signals from the sky with multiple antennas, and combining them to create extremely high resolution images, similar to those that would be obtained by a single, giant antenna with a diameter equal to the distance between the antennas used. This can only be achieved with the perfect synchronisation of the antennas and the electronic equipment: a precision much better than one millionth of a millionth of a... (Science Daily)
As he landed in Tel Aviv, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of need for a 'just resolution' for Israelis and Palestinians ... "Every speech will try to maneuver between all parties," says Amnon Ramon, a professor at Hebrew University's Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management, & Resolution ... "I plead with all those responsible to explore every possible avenue in the search for a just resolution of the outstanding difficulties, so that both peoples may live in peace in a homeland of their own,... (Christian Science Monitor)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The US space agency said it was on target to launch on Monday the space shuttle Atlantis on its high-risk final mission to service the Hubble telescope. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry a pair of basketballs when it rockets away on a repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
This will be enough resolution to photograph the lunar landing stages and equipment left behind by the Apollo astronauts more than 30 years ago. The last time astronauts have left their boot prints on the moon was in 1972. (Medfield Press, MA)
"The cosmic microwave background shows us the universe directly at age 400,000 years, not the movie, not the historical novel, but the original photons," said Charles Lawrence, NASA project scientist for Planck at JPL. "Planck will give us the clearest view ever of this baby universe, showing us the results of physical processes in the first brief moments after the Big Bang, and the starting point for the formation of stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. The clear view is a result of... (Science Daily)
Smithsonian researcher David Phillips says that he and his colleagues expect to reach a velocity resolution of 60 cm/sec, and maybe even 1 cm/sec, which when applied to the activities of large telescopes presently under construction, would open new possibilities in astronomy and astrophysics, including simpler detection of more Earth-like planets. With this new approach, Harvard astronomers achieve their great improvement using a frequency comb as the basis for the astro-comb. (EurekAlert!)
"The far UV detector is similar to what we built for NASA's FUSE mission, but with better resolution and much better sensitivity," said Siegmund, referring to NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite, which was launched in 1999 to study the universe in the far UV waveband. That mission, operated by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, ended in 2007. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Planck is 10 times more sensitive and has three times the resolution of the best American microwave telescope, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which was launched in 2001. Planck can detect temperature differences as small as one ten-millionth of a degree. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Scientists hope that the data from the telescopes will enable them to fill in the remaining mysteries of how the universe came into existence and how it is likely to end. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. A British space mission, which would include two deep space telescopes, dubbed Herschel and Planck, will probe the ancient history of the cosmos going right back to the dawn of time at the Big Bang - and possibly before. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. US space agency NASA will launch its space shuttle Atlantis on May 11 to upgrade the Hubble telescope. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
The Rembrandt impact basin revealed by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft during its second flyby of Mercury in October 2008 is shown here overlaid on an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) image of the east coast of the United States ... 26, 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... (Science Daily)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. A star's gravity can put a nearby planet on a "fast track" to spiralling into the star and may also cause the planet to lose much of its atmosphere, the 'New Scientist' reported. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Cannibalism is rampant in our universe. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Resolution would end shuttle deadline ... U.S. House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday on a budget resolution that would eliminate a hard deadline for the retirement of NASA's shuttle fleet and provide $2 ... Supporters say the resolution -- which is expected to be up for a final vote this week -- could help avert the type of schedule pressure that led to the 1986 Challenger and 2003 Columbia accidents. (Florida Today)
Hubble's resolution shows clearly that the stream of material lies in front of the southern component of Arp 194, as shown by the dust that is silhouetted around the star cluster complexes. The details of the interactions among the multiple galaxies that make up Arp 194 are complex. (Science Daily)
In the future the team plan to obtain images of the system at higher resolution and look out for any variability in the shadowed lane over time. Adapted from materials provided by , via. (Science Daily)
The second Magic telescope will give the observatory stereoscopic vision, making experiments up to nine times faster and increasing their angular resolution by nearly a third, so that the sources of the gamma rays can be more precisely pinned down. The telescopes will also be better poised to catch gamma-ray bursts, the showers of the rays that occur when a black hole is formed. (BBC News -- Science)
" This extra data will allow astronomers to see objects in the Universe in much finer detail than was previously possible, and it will also enable them to study parts of the cosmos that have never been seen before. Professor Simon Garrington, director of the e-Merlin project, said: "This combination of a boost in resolution and sensitivity will allow a whole community of scientists in the UK and around the world to address some of the key questions in astronomy today. "These questions cover the... (BBC News -- UK)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Astronomers have claimed that solar system actually emerged from a "well-blended soup of dust and gas". (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
The Mars Color Imager camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sees the entire planet every day at resolution comparable to weather satellites around Earth. "We can identify where dust is rising into the atmosphere and where it is moving from day to day," said Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, principal investigator for Mars Color Imager. (Science Daily)
12, 2009) Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first high-resolution image of the young binary system Theta1 Orionis C, located in the Orion Trapezium cluster ... Thus, high-angular resolution is needed for an in-depth study of the system ... The dominant star is Theta1 Orionis C, which was imaged with unprecedented resolution with the VLT interferometer (lower right). (Science Daily)
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