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Herschel Delivers Its First Images
Monday, July 13th, 2009 - Ehud Rattner
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the Herschel Telescope about a month ago; recently, it started delivering its...

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Russians Landed on Moon Before Americans

Saturday, July 4th, 2009 - 10:34:57 - Anuradha Menon

In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the...

Earth's Clearest Skies Revealed

Sunday, June 7th, 2009 - 19:38:56 - Ehud Rattner

Possibly the clearest skies on Earth have been found - but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's...

Atlantis to Land on Sunday

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 - 09:10:23 - Anuradha Menon

STS-125 Entry Flight Director Norm Knight has waved off today's landing opportunities. Capcom Greg Johnson explained to the crew the weather did not...

Astronauts Let Hubble Go

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 - 16:39:40 - Anuradha Menon

Practicing a kind of catch-and-release astronomy, the astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis oh-so-gently let the Hubble Space Telescope slip back...

Marathon Spacewalk Gives Hubble New Life

Saturday, May 16th, 2009 - 10:23:51 - Anuradha Menon

Astronaut Michael Massimino, floating inside the Hubble Space Telescope, and fellow spacewalker Michael "Bueno" Good, on the end of the shuttle...

Europeans Launch Space Telescope Duo

Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 10:05:07 - Anuradha Menon

Two European telescopes aimed at pushing astronomy's frontier closer to the big bang were successfully launched on their space odyssey on Thursday...

James Webb Space Telescope
Friday, May 15th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned infrared orbiting space observatory, the successor to the aging Hubble...

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Atlantis Meets Up with Hubble Today

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - 14:03:25 - Anuradha Menon

Space shuttle Atlantis will meet up with the Hubble Space Telescope today. The actual grapple of the telescope using the shuttle’s robotic arm is...

Telescopes That Could See the Future

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 - 10:05:59 - Anuradha Menon

A pair of space telescopes to be launched later this month will help to answer some of the biggest questions in the Universe – such as how did we get...

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