BLACKSBURG, Va., Jan. 13, 2000ãAstronomers from Virginia Tech announced on Thursday, Jan. 13, at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Atlanta that a well-known, luminous cloud of gas in […]
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Pegasus/SORCE Press Opportunity to be held at KSC on Wednesday Jan. 15
The NASA-sponsored Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) spacecraft, to be launched on Jan. 25, will be featured in a news media opportunity on Wednesday, Jan. 15. SORCE will be […]
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The star splitter: Microlensing technique pioneered by NSF researchers finds black holes
Contact: Amber Jones aljones@nsf.gov 703-306-1070 National Science Foundation In a Robert Frost poem, a farmer relies on a telescope called the “Star-Splitter” to satisfy his curiosity about our place in […]
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Space Shuttle Status Report January 13, 2000
(1:30 p.m. EST) MISSION: STS-99 – Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 LOCATION: Pad 39A TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Jan. 31, 2000 at 12:47 p.m. EST TARGET KSC LANDING […]
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Little Giants Create A Big Cosmic Controversy
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts Contact Information: Krzysztof Stanek Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA Telephone: 617-495-7042, E-mail: kstanek@cfa.harvard.edu Peter Garnavich University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN Telephone: […]
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Yale Researcher Identifies Stars That Give Clues to the Milky Way
YALE News Release CONTACT: Jacqueline Weaver 203-432-8555 #152 New Haven, Conn. — A Yale researcher has found up to 70 new and very distant RR Lyrae stars in the Milky […]
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Civil Lawsuit Filed Involving NASA Contractors
Roberta L. Gross Inspector General (Phone: 202-358-1220) Samuel A. Maxey Assistant Inspector General for Investigations (Phone: 202-358-1233) RELEASE: 2000-023 Civil Lawsuit Filed Involving NASA Contractors The Department of Justice filed […]
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Hubble Observations Indicate Massive Planets May Form Quickly Out In The Cold
Don Savage Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202-358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (Phone: 301-286-5017) RELEASE: 00-03 HUBBLE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE MASSIVE PLANETS MAY FORM QUICKLY OUT IN THE […]
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Possible Astronomical Implications for the Origin of Life-chemical synthesis in the circumstellar environment
Ever since the Miller-Urey experiment in 1953, most scientists have held the view that life arose on the early Earth from simple inorganic molecules. With a suitable energy source (e.g. […]
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Astronomers End Year with a Bang: NASA Uses Teamwork to Learn about One of the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe
Steve Roy Media Relations Department (256) 544-0034 steve.roy@msfc.nasa.gov http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news RELEASE: 00-008 Astronomers End Year with a Bang: NASA Uses Teamwork to Learn about One of the Most Powerful Explosions in […]
