Items tagged with telescope

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NASA'S Telescope Unveils a Dozen New Pulsars Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 18:40:14 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are... read more

Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 10:29:23 - Anuradha Menon Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope... read more

Carbon Dioxide Found on Extrasolar Planet Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - 10:29:18 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important... read more

Turbulent Star-Forming Region Captured Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 - 10:06:17 - Anuradha Menon A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of... read more

Hubble Scores a Perfect '10' Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 18:46:21 - Anuradha Menon The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. The science operations were resumed... read more

NASA has Trouble Rebooting Hubble Saturday, October 18th, 2008 - 17:00:53 - Iddo Genuth NASA's attempt to resurrect the Hubble Space Telescope hit a roadblock on Thursday, further delaying an attempt to resume its science observations... read more

NASA to Reboot Hubble Space Telescope Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - 09:00:06 - Iddo Genuth NASA will attempt to revive the $2 billion Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, officials say. The telescope was idled two weeks ago by an equipment... read more

How Dust Rings Point to Exo-Earths Saturday, October 11th, 2008 - 10:02:37 - Anuradha Menon Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sun-like stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes... read more

Mysterious Object Disappears from Space Friday, October 10th, 2008 - 14:23:18 - Anuradha Menon Humans have been star-gazing for thousands of years but the surprises keep coming. Recently, members of the Supernova Cosmology Project, one of the... read more

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