A team of scientists at the California Institute of Technology and the State University of New York at Stony Brook has found strong evidence that high-luminosity quasar activity in galaxy […]
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Early Gemini North Results Feature Super Star Clusters, Details of Circumstellar Disks
From massive young star clusters swaddled in a dust cocoon 600 trillion miles wide to intriguing structural details in a circumstellar disk around a nearby binary star system, the 8-meter […]
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Cornell astronomers use the Arecibo Observatory to reveal radio beacons, called OH megamasers, that yield galactic clues
PASADENA, Calif. — When galaxies collide, they leave clues in the wake of their primordial history: radio beacons from their tell-tale hearts. Thanks to an upgrade of the radio telescope […]
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Early results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: From under our nose to the edge of the universe
Pasadena, Calif. — Scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey today (June 5) presented results based on early data from the project. The first glimpses of what will ultimately be […]
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Public Gets a Chance to Use Instrument Similar to One Headed for Mars University Of Arizona
What: MarsQuest Exhibit When: From June 1 through Aug. 31, 2001 Where: Park Place shopping center, west end, next to Macy’s Department Store Contact Information Heather Enos 520.621.8279 Heather Enos […]
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Los Alamos researchers detect huge meteors while keeping an ear out for clandestine nuclear tests
Using a system designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory detected two large meteors that recently entered the atmosphere above […]
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Shuttle motor ready for Utah test May 24 to qualify safety, cost-saving upgrades
A full-scale Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motor is scheduled to test fire for 123.2 seconds Thursday, May 24, at a Utah test facility. The test, in Promontory, Utah, at […]
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NASA Marshall creates new Second Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle Program Office
The Second Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. – the office that oversees the Space Launch Initiative – will now report directly […]
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Senior Bush Official Outlines Administration’s Approach to Global Warming
The Keynote Address at last week’s AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy was delivered by Lawrence B. Lindsey, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. Lindsey opened his speech […]
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First commercial plant growth experiment from Wisconsin team gets started on Space Station
The first commercial plant growth experiment on the International Space Station is sponsored by a NASA Commercial Space Center – the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics at the […]
