Contact: Amber Jones aljones@nsf.gov 703-306-1070 National Science Foundation In a Robert Frost poem, a farmer relies on a telescope called the “Star-Splitter” to satisfy his curiosity about our place in […]
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74,625 results found Sort by:Yale Researcher Finds Number of “Near-Earth Asteroids” Are Fewer than Believed
YALE News Release CONTACT: Jacqueline Weaver 203-432-8555 #151 New Haven, Conn. — The number of “near-Earth asteroids” that have a chance, though miniscule, of colliding with Earth this century is […]
Like a Human Heart: Betelgeuse’s Chromosphere Beats Asymmetrically
Contact Information: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Alex Lobel, 617-497-7919, alobel@cfa.harvard.edu Andrea Dupree, 617-495-7489, adupree@cfa.harvard.edu Space Telescope Science Institute Roland Gilliland, 301-470-4366, gillil@stsci.edu For Release: 9:20 a.m. EST, January 13, 2000 […]
Students Help Astronomers Discover 73 Novae in Andromeda Galaxy
National Optical Astronomy Observatory Tucson, Arizona RELEASE NO: NOAO 00-01 Students Help Astronomers Discover 73 Novae in Andromeda Galaxy Astronomers, high school teachers and their students have discovered 73 novae […]
U-M astronomer says black holes formed early and influenced galactic evolution.
The University of Michigan News Service 412 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1399 January 10, 2000 (9) Contact: Sally Pobojewski (734) 647-1844 pobo@umich.edu http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo Which came first: the black hole or […]
Minotaur Set for West Coast Launch Debut Friday Evening
National Space Society/Western Spaceport Chapter “Twilight Phenomena” may be seen from as far away as 200 miles VANDENBERG AFB, CA (January 13) — A Minotaur missile is scheduled for launch […]
Astronomers find nebula appears larger than it is
BLACKSBURG, Va., Jan. 13, 2000ãAstronomers from Virginia Tech announced on Thursday, Jan. 13, at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Atlanta that a well-known, luminous cloud of gas in […]
Space Science News
From: Craig Tupper (dtupper@hq.nasa.gov) Greetings from NASA Headquarters in lovely Washington, D.C.! The news has been a little slow lately around the holidays, so it has been a couple weeks […]
FUSE Spacecraft Observes Interstellar Lifeblood of Galaxies
Don Savage Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-5017) RELEASE: 00-5 FUSE SPACECRAFT OBSERVES INTERSTELLAR LIFEBLOOD OF GALAXIES The extended halo of […]
Canadian Science and Technology Revealing Secrets of the Universe
ATLANTA, GEORGIA–A Canadian astronomer figured prominently in a NASA press conference today where the first science results from the FUSE satellite (Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) were announced at the American Astronomical […]