LCROSS captures all phases of Centaur impact Oct 22, 2009
"The team is working hard on the analysis and the data appear to be of very high quality. Three co-added LCROSS Visible Light Camera images taken shortly after impact. The extent of the plume at 15 seconds is between six and eight kilometres. Image: NASA. The LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) impacts were designed to throw up potentially icy debris from a permanently shadowed crater at the lunar south pole and comprised the spent Centaur stage of the rocket followed by the... (Astronomy Now Online)
Chance of life? 32 new planets found outside solar system Oct 20, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside the solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found Oct 20, 2009
In 1999, ESO launched a call for opportunities to build a high resolution, extremely precise spectrograph for the ESO 3. 6-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile. (Science Daily)
IBEX maps edge of Solar System Oct 20, 2009
Accurate timing of the incoming ENAs allows the IBEX team to obtain a higher resolution in the latitudinal direction. The inset at right shows some of the fine detail of the ribbon. (Astronomy Now Online)
A brave new brand of science Oct 17, 2009
VITHAL C NADKARNI , TOI Crest 17 October 2009, 11:19am IST. Rumour had it that the scientist prayed for it every night. (India Times, India -- Community News)
1st EU-ESA International Conference on Human Space Exploration Oct 15, 2009
This first step in a process that will lead to the definition of a European vision in this field stems from a Resolution adopted by the 5th Space Council (*) in September 2008. Besides Ministers and delegates from the EU, ESA and third countries, the conference will also be attended by Members of Parliament and representatives of industry and academia. (NASA Watch)
Asteroid Is Actually A Protoplanet, Study Of First High-resolution Images Of Pallas Confirms Oct 14, 2009
"It was incredibly exciting to have this new perspective on an object that is really interesting and hadn't been observed by Hubble at high resolution," Schmidt said of the first high-resolution images of Pallas, which is believed to have been intact since its formation, most likely within a few million years of the birth of our solar system. "We were trying to understand not only the object, but how the solar system formed," Schmidt said. (Science Daily)
In net age, learning to think in petabytes Oct 13, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Two years ago, IBM and Google set out to give students access to some of the largest computers. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
2nd largest asteroid in Solar System protoplanet Oct 11, 2009
"It was incredibly exciting to have this new perspective on an object that is really interesting and hadn't been observed by Hubble at high resolution," said UCLA doctoral student Britney E. Schmidt, the study's lead author. "We think of these large asteroids not only as the building blocks of planets but as a chance to look at planet formation frozen in time.". (Xinhuanet, China)
In search of water, NASA prepares to bomb the moon Oct 9, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. NASA is preparing a violent return to the moon on Friday as part of a mission to send a satellite and a rocket booster crashing into the planet's surface to look for water. (India Times, India)
NASA telescope discovers giant ring around Saturn Oct 7, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday. (India Times, India)
On moonless nights, look for the not-so-bright sights among stars Oct 3, 2009
In 2005, the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy, or CHARA, at Georgia State University installed an array of six 40-inch telescopes, spread across almost a quarter-mile, connected to a central facility by vacuum pipes carrying the telescopes light beams. In the central building, precision machinery aligns and combines the same individual light waves coming from a star as sampled by the six widely separated telescopes. (Boston Globe)
NASA Goddard Shoots The Moon To Track Lunar Spacecraft Sep 30, 2009
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 pixel. The imagery generated by the data has been. (Science Daily)
Vivid vista shines light on Galactic Centre Sep 30, 2009
for link to high resolution image ... This spectacular starscape is the second of three extremely high resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. (Astronomy Now Online)
New moons on the horizon Sep 30, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Some of the most spectacular new discoveries have been moons or natural satellites - objects that orbit around planets or other bodies, not the sun. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Probe's pass and brake at Mercury Sep 30, 2009
Messenger is imaging the surface of Mercury at high resolution ... By the time the fly-by is complete, the probe will have mapped 95% of Mercury's surface at high resolution. (BBC News -- Americas)
An unfamiliar neighbourhood Sep 30, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Twins separated at birth, illegitimate progeny, violent abductions, villains lurking in the dark. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Global View Of Valleys On Saturn's Moon Titan Shows North-South Contrast Sep 30, 2009
Furthermore, data in near infrared wavelengths have been captured for a wide band around the equator by Cassini s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) with a resolution of up to 300 meters per pixel. On this equatorial band, bright continent areas and extensive dune regions can be distinguished. (Science Daily)
Comment: Over the moon with mission Sep 26, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Evidence of water not an invitation to colonise. (India Times, India)
ALMA Dish Takes the High Road Sep 26, 2009
They'll be probing a largely unexplored band of the electromagnetic spectrum, at very high resolution, to study some of the coldest objects in the cosmos. Among these are the dense clouds of gas and dust where stars form, and distant, dusty, star-forming galaxies near the edge of the observable universe. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Water Ice In Fresh Meteorite Craters On Mars Sep 25, 2009
Byrne is a member of the team operating the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, which captured the unprecedented images ... The opportunity to study such a fresh impact site prompted a look by the orbiter's higher resolution camera on Sept. 12, 2009, confirming a cluster of small craters. (Science Daily)
One more watering hole for humans to colonize Sep 25, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Until now, scientists believed that the Moon was completely barren with no signs of water. (India Times, India)
Click to read:Obama Calls for "Walls to Come Down" Sep 24, 2009
and I am sure the Republicans have an awesome resolution to getting us all out of this mess like eliminating Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Corporate Regulations, Capitalism BailOuts and providing Tax Cuts to the Rich. Sounds like the recipies of how to become a 3rd World nation that cannot take care of it own citizens. (CBS News)
Zooming To The Center Of The Milky Way: GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 2 Sep 23, 2009
This gorgeous starscape is the second of three extremely high resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). The project allows stargazers to explore and experience the Universe as it is seen with the unaided eye from the darkest and best viewing locations in the world. (Science Daily)
First Full Simulation Of Star's Final Hours Sep 23, 2009
"We need to explore the effects of rotation, of resolution, and of different initial compositions of the star," says Zingale. "But with MAESTRO now up and running on today's fastest supercomputers, we are well on our way.". (Science Daily)
Swift's portrait of Andromeda Sep 22, 2009
Taking time out from its typical agenda of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest resolution view of the Andromeda galaxy in ultraviolet. The Andromeda galaxy, or M31, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own, residing at a distance of 2. (Astronomy Now Online)
Pollution: Darker side of light Sep 21, 2009
Darker side of light pollution- Pollution-Environment-The Economic Times. Darker side of light pollution20 Sep 2009, 2241 hrs IST, PTI. (India Times)
Coldest place in the solar system? On the moon Sep 18, 2009
"Nobody's seen what it's like in these areas before at this resolution.". And the closer NASA's instruments look at the craters, the more nuanced they look. (MSNBC -- Technology)
New Way Of Seeing Moon: Temperature Maps Sep 18, 2009
The instrument has revealed richly detailed thermal behavior, throughout both the north and south polar regions, that extends to the limit of Diviner's spatial resolution of just a few hundred yards ... There are large gaps between Diviner's individual ground tracks at the equator, but in the polar regions, the ground tracks overlap to create continuous high-resolution maps ... During the course of LRO's mapping mission, Diviner will map the entire surface of the moon at high resolution to... (Science Daily)
Patterns In Mars Crater Floors Give Picture Of Drying Lakes Sep 17, 2009
17, 2007) The High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter has obtained pictures of the Noachis Terra region on Mars, in particular, the striking Maunder. (Sep. (Science Daily)
"Lava Planet" Found Outside Solar System Sep 17, 2009
Only vast increases in all-wavelength resolution make this discovery possible. Imagine, looking at a non-stellar object three quadrillion miles distant. (CBS News)
Astrophysics: High Energy Galactic Particle Accelerator Located Sep 15, 2009
However, these telescopes have an angular resolution of only about 0 ... At the same time, M87 was also observed with the VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array), a combination of several radio telescopes with very high spatial resolution scattered over the whole of the USA.. (Science Daily)
Habitable moons could to be spotted by 2014 Sep 13, 2009
PTI 13 September 2009, 12:48pm IST. LONDON: British astronomers have claimed that thousands of moons capable of supporting life, like those shown in the popular Star Wars' flicks, could be scattered all over our galaxy, and are likely to be spotted by 2014. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
G-corridors to cut space travel cost Sep 12, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Experts riding on latest research say that gravitational corridors will reduce the cost of space travel considerably. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
After repairs, new space images from Hubble unveiled Sep 11, 2009
The exception was that the astronauts were unable to restore a high-resolution capability on the survey camera. It is mostly used in a wide-field mode, astronomers say, but one of the more exciting Hubble pictures recently was a high-resolution image of a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut obtained by Paul G. Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues ... 0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Newly Fixed Hubble Telescope Shows Cosmic Beauty Sep 11, 2009
View a slide show, and full resolution images with descriptions on NASA's Hubble page. Washington Missouri 2009. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Reborn Hubble back to biz with a big bang Sep 11, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The freshly repaired and outfitted Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a new butterfly-shaped galaxy and wisps of stardust containing the elements of life being recycled into new galaxies, Nasa said. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
How Do Space Pictures Get So Pretty? Sep 10, 2009
For the Hubble telescope, the image files can be up to 70MB in size, with a resolution of 16. 7 megapixels. (Slate)
Refurbished Hubble Telescope sends stunning images of the galaxy Sep 10, 2009
We see this incredible resolution in the visible and then we see the same thing with the same kind of resolution in the infrared. That blew me away. (Boston Globe)
Trials for 'bionic' eye implants Sep 10, 2009
First-generation, low-resolution devices have already been fitted to six patients ... The new implant has a higher resolution than the earlier devices, with 60 electrodes ... Other devices could then be developed with higher resolution or a wider field of view, said Professor Humayun. (Yahoo News -- Disabilities and the Disabled)
NASA's new Hubble Space Telescope Sep 10, 2009
0 or higher at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. The freshly repaired and outfitted Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a new butterfly-shaped galaxy and wisps of stardust containing the elements of life being recycled into new galaxies, NASA said on Wednesday. (India Times)
Planets have to be about the size of Earth to be conducive for life Sep 8, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. it has been determined in a new study that any planet would have to be around the size of Earth in order to be conducive for life. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
'Airplane view' yields stunning Mars images Sep 5, 2009
It must be something like the thousands of curious, intriguing and spectacular images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The University of Arizona, Tucson, which operates HiRISE, has just released a new batch of these photos taken in the last several months. (CNN)
Click to read:Photos From Mars Orbiter Appear Abstract Sep 5, 2009
High Resolution Pictures from NASA Make Red Planet Look Blue ... NASA this week began showing off more than 1,500 new images of the surface of Mars, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... NASA this week began showing off more than 1,500 new images of the surface of Mars, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRise) camera aboard the. (CBS News)
Thousands Of New Images Show Mars In High Resolution Sep 5, 2009
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter recorded these images from the month of April through early August of this year ... The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo ... This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows gullies near the edge of Hale... (Science Daily)
Cosmic collision changed galaxies' structure Sep 5, 2009
Cosmic collision in our neighbourhood changed galaxies - Science - NEWS - The Times of India. Cosmic collision in our neighbourhood changed galaxies. (India Times, India)
Raging Fire Threatens Mount Wilson Sep 3, 2009
Includes late updates. While nothing is ever guaranteed in fires like this. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Infrared eye to help search for asteroids Sep 1, 2009
A new telescope named WISE is designed to survey the whole sky in infrared light and will observe same region with far greater resolution than shown here. . (MSNBC -- Technology)
A spacecraft that can prevent Armageddon Aug 31, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. British scientists have designed a spacecraft which they claim is capable of saving Earth from a catastrophic asteroid collision. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
'Gravity tractor' to save earth from asteroids Aug 31, 2009
ANI 30 August 2009, 02:50pm IST. LONDON: British space scientists have designed a special spacecraft that can save the earth from a catastrophic asteroid collision. (India Times, India)
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Stopwatch for the solar system Aug 27, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Scientists have found a method to find the precise timing of events around 4. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Suicidal Planet on Death Spiral into Star Aug 27, 2009
I will say this that "PHOTO" they have with this article is of outstanding definition, resolution and quality considering this is 325 LIGHT YEARS away. Those last upgrades they made to Hubble must have included some incredibly advanced alien technology or something. (CBS News)
Dark Energy From The Ground Up: Make Way For BigBOSS Aug 21, 2009
Schlegel realized that he and his colleagues were looking at the possibility of mounting a three-degree spectrograph on existing telescopes that could gather millions of galaxies with extraordinary spectral resolution precision that would allow the study not just of density variations of galaxies but in the hydrogen gas that fills the universe, something JDEM could not do, covering a much wider range of redshifts than JDEM, and looking much farther back in time. Because the new approach had... (Science Daily)
Space Shuttle to Launch Tuesday Aug 21, 2009
The launch date was announced after a flight readiness review, during which senior NASA managers assessed the risks associated with the mission and determined the shuttle's equipment, support systems and procedures are ready for launch pending the resolution of one remaining issue. "An orbiter power controller that failed to operate properly was replaced, and an analysis was completed," NASA said in a statement. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Fermi Tracks Gamma-ray Pulsars Aug 20, 2009
With Fermi, however, astronomers finally have a tool with enough resolution (in both location and time) to pin down the nature of these sources. If you follow the astronomy news we post here, you're already familiar with Fermi's amazing results to date. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Spectacular Moon-Venus conjunction today Aug 17, 2009
0 or higher, at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. A celestial show greeted skygazers at the break of dawn on Monday with Venus and Moon coming together in the eastern sky for a conjunction. (India Times, India)
Mars Orbiter Shows Angled View Of Martian Crater Aug 16, 2009
15, 2009) The high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the Martian crater that a rover explored for two years ... The orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera shot it at an angle comparable to looking at landscape from an airplane window ... The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the instrument was built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder,... (Science Daily)
Saturn moon has 'ice volcanoes' Aug 15, 2009
Cassini's radar - an instrument that can pierce the thick atmosphere to map the surface, at low resolution - sees lobe-like features at the two locations. Their thickness, about 200m, is consistent with a cyrovolcanic flow interpretation. (BBC News -- Science)
IAU General Assembly finishes with the launch of successor to the International Year of Astronomy Aug 14, 2009
This image shows the unanimous vote for the Resolution, The Strategic Plan: Astronomy for the Developing World, at the Closing Ceremony of the IAU XXVIIth General Assembly in Rio de ... Five Resolutions were approved by vote at the Closing Ceremony: The Strategic Plan: Astronomy for the Developing World; IAU 2009 Astronomical Constants; The Second Realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame; Supporting Women in Astronomy and Defence of the Night Sky and the Right to Starlight. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Send an Interstellar SMS During National Science Week Aug 14, 2009
High resolution still image ... High resolution still image. (PR Newswire)
Pluto still not a planet after astronomy meeting Aug 14, 2009
In 2006, the IAU meeting assembly demoted Pluto into a "dwarf planet" (sometimes called a "plutoid") because it has failed to have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit," in the words of the assembly's resolution ... Indeed, the IAU meeting ended with a resolution to develop more astronomical resources for poorer nations, instead of a fight over Pluto. (USA Today -- Tech)
Martian life appears less likely, study reveals Aug 13, 2009
The team hopes that the VLT's new optics software will sharpen their view of Mars from a resolution of 400 to 500 kilometers (249 to 311 miles) to about 50 kilometers (31 miles). 2009 Discovery Channel. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Storm clouds over Titan Aug 13, 2009
The effort also served as the latest demonstration of adaptive optics, which use deformable mirrors to enable NSF's suite of ground-based telescopes to capture images that in some cases exceed the resolution of images captured by space-based counterparts ... "Now, we can remove the affects of the atmosphere, capturing images that in some cases exceed the resolution of those captured by space-based telescopes. Investments in adaptive optics technology are really starting to pay off." ... The... (EurekAlert!)
Avalanche! The Incredible Data Stream Of Solar Dynamics Observatory Aug 13, 2009
" Spatial resolution is only half the story, though. Previous missions have photographed the sun no faster than once every few minutes. SDO will shatter that record. "We'll be getting IMAX-quality images every 10 seconds," says Pesnell. "We'll see every nuance of solar activity. " Because these fast cadences have never been attempted before by an orbiting observatory, the potential for discovery is great. To illustrate the effect this might have on solar physics, Pesnell recalls the 18th century... (Science Daily)
