Contact: Michael Purdy mcp@jhu.edu 410-516-7160 Johns Hopkins University Intriguing patterns of star motion and composition in the Milky Way hint at the presence of a remnant of a smaller galaxy […]
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Simultaneous stellar explosions create swiss-cheese structure in distant galaxy
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy science@psu.edu 814-863-4682 Penn State In a galaxy seven billion light-years from Earth, at a time when our Sun was just being born, several thousand stars died […]
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Hubble Space Telescope observations provide strong support for the existence of baryonic galactic dark matter
Contact: Anne Stark stark8@llnl.gov 925-422-9799 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory SAN DIEGO, Calif. ñThrough a Hubble Space Telescope analysis of stars that have undergone gravitational microlensing, astronomers have collected strong evidence […]
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Astronomers Map Out Largest Structure in Distant Universe
Release No: 01-2 By reading the light from the fiery heart of unimaginably remote galaxies, astronomers have discovered evidence for an immense concentration of galaxies over 6.5 billion light years […]
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COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits (COROT) science mission : Go!
Contact: Sandra Laly CNES (33) 1.44.76.77.32 In early October, the CNES Board of Administration gave the go-ahead for the COROT (COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits) science mission. COROT is the […]
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Update on Information for First Landing Site Workshop on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers
Update on Information for First Landing Site Workshop on the 2003 Mars Exploration RoversJanuary 24-26, 2001, Ames Research Center http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/mer2003/ The preliminary program and abstracts for the First Landing Site […]
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AMSAT SpaceNews 08-Jan-01 *
* AMSAT-OSCAR-40 NEWS * ======================= Peter Guelzow, DB2OS, has confirmed that the VHF and UHF receivers on AMSAT-OSCAR-40 are okay and seem to work nominally on the HiGain antennas. So […]
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Boeing Gets OK to Build 11th UHF Follow-On Satellite
The U.S. Navy has authorized Boeing Satellite Systems Inc. (BSS) to begin production of the 11th in a series of UHF Follow-On (UFO) satellites, which provide global communications for the […]
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Astronomers discover more than 150 rapidly moving stars in the Milky Way
Contact: Anne Stark stark8@llnl.gov 925-422-9799 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory SAN DIEGO, Calif.–Astronomers have found 154 rapidly moving stars towards the center of our galaxy and our brightest neighboring galaxy. The […]
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VLA’s Sharpened Vision Shows Details of Still-Forming Star
Using a new observing capability of the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a solar-system-sized disk of gas and dust feeding material onto a […]
