Contact: Miss Audrey Nice Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd 01483 259278 a.nice@ee.surrey.ac.uk At a 6-month mission review, engineers at the Surrey Space Centre and SSTL in the United Kingdom have reported […]
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A Newborn Star Offers a View to Our Past
Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (Phone: 301/286-8982) Photo Release No. 01-P1 Evidence that small dust grains are agglomerating into larger blocks inside a persistent shell of gas […]
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Unusual Mixing in Red Giants Identified as Unexpected Contributor to Mysterious Source of Lithium
National Optical Astronomy ObservatoryTucson, Arizona For more information: Douglas IsbellNOAO Public Information Officer(520) 318-8214, disbell@noao.edu, dougisbell@hotmail.com Astronomers surveying hundreds of red giant stars in more than a dozen globular star clusters […]
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New Wide-Field Imager for Astronomy Launched
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs Anglo-Australian Observatory Media contact: David Kemp’s office: Brooke Lord, (02) 6277 7460 or 0419 446 292 Anglo-Australian Observatory: Dr Fred Watson, […]
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Chandra’s High Resolution Camera Examines The Orion Nebula Cluster
Chandra X-ray Observatory CenterCenter for Astrophysics (CFA)Cambridge, MA Using the High Resolution Camera (HRC) aboard Chandra, a joint team of researchers, including E. Flaccomio, S. Sciortino, G. Micela and F. […]
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Star formation: new insight gained from extensive millimeter-wave mapping of forming stars
Astronomy & Astrophysics Heidelberg, Germany Contacts: Authors: F. Motte, motte@submm.caltech.edu P. AndrÈ, pandre@cea.fr Astronomy & Astrophysics: F. Rostas, press contact, francois.rostas@obspm.frC. Bertout, Editor-in-Chief, claude.bertout@obspm.fr January 8, 2001 A&A press release 2001-1 Early stages of star formation are […]
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Scientist Searches for Carbon Dioxide-Eating Microbe
Wanted: Algae of the most adventurous type. Must grow in slime on scratchy plastic discs. A willingness to be periodically purged in favor of new recruits required. Above all, must […]
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Chandra reveals the X-ray glint in the Cat’s Eye
Contact: Steve Roy Media Relations Department (256) 544-0034 steve.roy@msfc.nasa.gov Scientists have discovered a glowing bubble of hot gas and an unexpected X-ray bright central star within the planetary nebula known […]
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Yale astronomers discover remains of ancient galaxies in the Milky Way
Contact: karen.peart@yale.edu karen.peart@yale.edu 203-432-1326 Yale University Two Yale astronomers have discovered that, contrary to previous beliefs, the area around the Milky Way contains the remains of small galaxies that were […]
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Space Systems/Loral to Build APSTAR-V Communications Satellite for APT Satellite
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, has been awarded a contract to design and build APSTAR-V, a high-powered, C/Ku-band satellite for APT Satellite Company Ltd. (APT […]
