On Wednesday 16 January, ESA Director General Antonio Rodotà will be meeting the media at ESA Headquarters in Paris. The gathering will start at 08:30 with breakfast, followed at 09:00 […]
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World’s Largest Telescope Creates a Virtual Star Over Hawaii
Brings Astronomers Closer to Unveiling the Entire Sky with Adaptive Optics MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (Jan. 4, 2002 ) – The W. M. Keck Observatory, home to the world’s two largest […]
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French Advances in Science and Tecnology Issue #302 (excerpts)
** SATELLITES IMPROVE THEIR BEDSIDE MANNER A consortium of actors including the National Space Studies Center (CNES) and the Pasteur Institute of Paris announced last week the establishment of a […]
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Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Nears Completion at Hopkins Applied Physics Lab;
Capping nearly two years of detailed development and assembly, engineers at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are putting the last touches on the CONTOUR […]
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Newly Commissioned Green Bank Telescope Bags New Pulsars
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s newly commissioned Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a windfall of three previously undetected millisecond pulsars in a dense cluster of […]
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Satish Dhawan, Former Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman, has died
Prof Satish Dhawan passed away late last night. A multifaceted personality, Prof Dhawan, was truly one of the most distinguished Indians of our times – a brilliant aeronautical engineer, an […]
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A Successful 2001 Lifts Kennedy Space Center into a New Year
During the past year, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) achieved many milestones. KSC celebrates these 2001 accomplishments and will use the momentum to accomplish the ambitious goals set for 2002. The […]
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ESO PR Highlights in 2001
The year 2001 brought further success to European Astronomy and ESO. All of the four 8.2-m Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) are now in regular use and […]
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Siestas in space?
Brief naps may prevent the effects of chronic sleep loss experienced by astronauts during missions. Studies of astronauts’ sleep indicate they average about six hours per day while in orbit, […]
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Inherent speed limit governs how quickly life bounces back after extinction, UC Berkeley research shows
The 500-million-year history of life on Earth is a series of booms and busts. But while the busts, or extinctions, can be either sudden or gradual, the booms of diversification […]
