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Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a satellite of our own Milky Way galaxy, represent a new category of gamma-ray-emitting objects detected both by Fermi and ground-based observatories.
Echo Bluff, located outside of Spring Valley, hosted a Star Party Saturday night. With the weather perfect for stargazing, event participants enjoyed astronomy-related software demonstrations, a slide presentation of “The Universe,” and naked eye and telescope demonstrations. At left, Jaime Avela, 7, of Granville looks through a telescope where he was able to see Saturn and three of its moons ...
Good news! NASA, after playing with the space shuttle for the last thirty years, has come out with a new experimental rocket, the Ares 1-X. My first thought is that it’s about time. They’ve been driving the space shuttle for a long, long time.
Marcia Rieke, an Astronomy Professor at the University of Arizona, shows some of the plans for the James Web Space Telescope and the 'clean room' lab where the light sensors for the telescope are tested at nearly negative 240 degrees Centigrade.
A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang.
Astronomers have spotted the assembly of galaxies that binds the known universe.
LaserMotive, an industry team from Seattle backed by Boeing and northwest tech companies, won the $900,000 prize for its performance in the final round of the NASA space elevator power beaming challenge at Dryden Flight Research Center. The team received the award Nov. 6 at Dryden following three days of competition against two other teams. “The achievement is considerable,” said space elevator ...
New striking photos of water-vapor geysers shooting off of Saturn's moon Enceladus were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around the planet.
Explorit Science Center will observe the culmination of the International Year of Astronomy through two avenues: • A special event Nov. 14, in which spectacular images from NASA's Great Observatories - the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory - will be
The host of 'Top Gear' aims higher. He recounts his childhood fascination with space travel, endures astronaut training and travels in a U-2 spy plane. Any big questions, though, go unexplored. James May begins his new documentary, " James May on the Moon " (BBC America, 8 p.m. Tuesday), where he belongs: in a car, on the ground. He's a host of " Top Gear ," the cheeky British automobile variety ...
The purpose of the meeting is to assess NASA and Roscosmos plans to support a six-person crew aboard the International Space Station, including transportation, crew rotation, training, and micro meteoroid and orbital debris shielding.
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