RELEASE: 00-182 NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Perseus A, a supergiant galaxy in the center of a galaxy cluster, provides new insight into how the galaxy has grown by […]
Risk map will help predict encephalitis outbreaks
Contact: Jonathan Day jfda@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu 561-778-7205 University of Florida VERO BEACH—The risk of a widespread St. Louis encephalitis epidemic in Florida this year is almost nonexistent, says a medical entomologist with […]
Robotic Hand Offers a New Grasp on Space Construction
John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, TX (281) 483-5111 Release: J00-36 A robotic system aimed at giving spacewalking astronauts a hand is being refined at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. A […]
X-ray snaps of Eros
UK CONTACT — Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-207-331-2751 US CONTACT — New Scientist Washington office newscidc@idt.net 202-452-1178 http://www.newscientist.com THANKS to a solar flare, astronomers have made […]
Weighing the Universe with 100,000 galaxies
CONTACTS Prof. Brian BoyleDirector, Anglo-Australian ObservatoryP.O. Box 296, Epping, NSW 2121, AustraliaEmail: director@aaoepp.aao.gov.auTel.: +61-2-9372-4811Fax: +61-2-9372-4880 Dr Shaun ColeDept of Physics, University of DurhamScience Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom Email: […]
Plumbing the depths of Polaris
NEWS! from the NAVAL OBSERVATORY Public Affairs OfficeU.S. Naval ObservatoryWashington, D.C. Press Contact: Geoff Chester, grc@usno.navy.mil A team […]
Web Site Helps Teachers Use Landsat Images in the Classroom
Contact: Carolyn Merry, (614) 292-6889; Merry.1@osu.edu Written by Pam Frost, (614) 292-9475; Frost.18@osu.edu COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State University engineer has designed a Web- based teaching aid to help deliver […]
Determination, “can-do” attitude lead NASA employee to build harp for daughter
Contact: Jerry Berg Media Relations Department (256) 544-0034 jerry.berg@msfc.nasa.gov Release: 00-183 His daughter needed a harp. Since he couldn’t afford to buy her one, NASA engineer Dave Ricks decided to […]
NASA Awards MDA $21 Million Service Contract for International Space Station
BRAMPTON, Ont.—- MacDonald Dettwiler subsidiary, MD Robotics has received a $21M contract from NASA Johnson Space Center to supply sustaining engineering services on the Robotic Work Station (RWS) for the […]
NOAA Detects Major Solar Flare
NOAA Media Contact:Barbara McGehanNOAA Space Environment Center, Boulder, Colo.(303) 497-6288, bmcgehan@boulder.noaa.gov NOAA’s Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., detected a major solar flare at about 15:25 UTC (11:25 a.m. EDT) on […]