By Robert Sanders, Public Affairs BERKELEY– Several recent observations support a controversial theory that high velocity clouds of hydrogen gas seen near our galaxy are left over from the formation […]
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Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Laurel, Maryland This week, science operations moved into high gear as NEAR approaches to within 41000 km of Eros. Images of Eros were obtained […]
Dramatic Outburst Reveals Nearest Black Hole
P.O. Box O Socorro, New Mexico 87801 http://www.spaceref.com/redirect.html?id=0&url=www.nrao.edu Contact: Dave Finley, NRAO (505) 835-7302 dfinley@nrao.edu Deborah Halber, MIT (617) 258-9276 dhalber@mit.edu Scientists have discovered the closest black hole yet, a […]
Exposing the Stuff Between Stars: A Progress Report on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey Mapping Our Milky Way Galaxy
Calgary, Alberta Contact: Jo Moss Media Relations Coordinator (403) 220-5727 Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) maps, delineating the gas and dust between stars, reveal the complex “ecosystem” of our Galaxy, […]
Pegasus/SORCE Press Opportunity to be held at KSC on Wednesday Jan. 15
The NASA-sponsored Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) spacecraft, to be launched on Jan. 25, will be featured in a news media opportunity on Wednesday, Jan. 15. SORCE will be […]
Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in the Galaxy
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1547) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410/338-4514) RELEASE: 00-4 LONE BLACK HOLES DISCOVERED ADRIFT IN THE GALAXY Two international teams […]
NASA Daily News Summary – Media Advisory m00-009
NASA Daily News Summary For Release: Jan. 13, 2000 Media Advisory m00-009 SUMMARY: LONE BLACK HOLES DISCOVERED ADRIFT IN THE GALAXY CHANDRA RESOLVES X-RAY GLOW INTO MILLIONS OF OBJECTS Video […]
Planet search results suggest our solar system may be uncommon
Contact: B. Scott Gaudi Gaudi@astronomy.ohio-state.edu 614-292-2076 Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State University astronomer is helping to answer a question mankind has asked since Copernicus first proclaimed […]
The star splitter: Microlensing technique pioneered by NSF researchers finds black holes
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 […]
ISS Status Report – Mission Control Center Report # 02
10 p.m. CST, Thursday, January 13, 2000 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas The International Space Station continues to operate with no problems entering its sixteenth month on orbit. Managers continue […]