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Canada's NEOSSat space telescope to discover near-Earth objects and track high-altitude satellites
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On May 22, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined other telescopes in North America, South America, Europe and Africa in simultaneously observing the same targets, simulating a telescope more than 6,800 miles (almost 11,000 kilometers) in diameter.
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 | Plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy ...> Full Article |
 | NASA scientists have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon ...> Full Article |
 | Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral on June 5. ...> Full Article |
After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one in each hemisphere, for further consideration
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 | Astronomers have used the Swift satellite to observe the first moments of a supernova explosion as it happens. ...> Full Article |
 | Astrophysicist to detect radioactive emissions across the vast sweep of our galaxy ...> Full Article |
 | NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near the beaches of eastern central Florida for its launch ...> Full Article |
 | Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures. ...> Full Article |
Our view of the Universe is about to be changed by the largest and most detailed 'map' of the heavens ever produced
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 | Telescope was in the right place at the right time to capture the first images of once-in-a-lifetime event ...> Full Article |
 | Graduate student Cristina Thomas has been making observations of asteroids using a large NASA telescope in Hawaii, at least once a month for more than three years now. Doing this kind of astronomical research has traditionally required a lot of time and money for travel, but Thomas usually can get to the telescope just by walking down the hall. ...> Full Article |
 | A team of scientists and engineers has been selected by NASA to study design concepts for a radio telescope destined for the far side of the Moon. The telescope, at present dubbed the Dark Ages Lunar Interferometer (DALI), will peer into the last unexplored epoch in the early history of the universe. The team is led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and includes key contributions from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) personnel. ...> Full Article |
 | Astronomers hail first views with twin giant mirrors a milestone for science ...> Full Article |
 | Diamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are perfect for scouting them, say scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. ...> Full Article |
 | The Royal Observatory Edinburgh has shipped its biggest and most complex ever instrument. The giant camera known as SCUBA-2 will be transported to the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on top of a 14,000 foot mountain in Hawaii where it is expected to make major discoveries related to the origins of galaxies, stars and planets. ...> Full Article |
 | In the thin, dry air of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 16,500 feet, an amazing new telescope system is taking shape, on schedule to provide the world's astronomers with unprecedented views of the origins of stars, galaxies, and planets. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will open an entirely new "window" on the Universe, allowing scientists to unravel longstanding and important astronomical mysteries. ...> Full Article |
 | NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. The agency announced the selection and 18 others related to future observatories on Friday, Feb.15. ...> Full Article |
 | NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages," just 700 million years after the beginning of our universe. ...> Full Article |
 | Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ...> Full Article |
 | A team of scientists representing six international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in reaching the summit of Antarctica -- also a monumental achievement for ground-based astronomy -- to establish a new astronomical observatory at Dome Argus on the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau. ...> Full Article |
 | University of Nottingham astronomers will be studying icy cosmic dust millions of light years away - using the biggest space telescope ever built. ...> Full Article |
 | ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral, has made the first unambiguous discovery of highly energetic X-rays coming from a galaxy cluster. The find has shown the cluster to be a giant particle accelerator. ...> Full Article |
 | The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico will observe a newly discovered asteroid on Jan. 27-28, as the object called 2007 TU24 passes within 1.4 lunar distances, or 334,000 miles, from Earth. ...> Full Article |
 | An image based on data taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope reveals a triplet of galaxies intertwined in a cosmic dance. ...> Full Article |
 | On 12 January, China scientific expedition to the Antarctica succeeded for the second time in climbing up to Dome A, the highest Antarctic icecap peak. A similar feat was made by Chinese scientists about three years ago in January 2005, leaving first human footprints there. However, this time is different, because it is the maiden trip for Chinese astronomers, Prof. ZHOU Xu with the National Astronomic Observatories at CAS (NAOC) and Prof. ZHU Zhengxi from the CAS Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), marking a new milestone for the cosmic exploration based on the apex of the Antarctic icecap. ...> Full Article |
 | University of Arizona astronomers Glenn Schneider, Michael Meyer and J. Serena Kim are among scientists who combined images from the UA-led infrared camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope with images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope into a spectacular image of a star's dust disk dubbed "The Moth." ...> Full Article |
 | Having the sharpest pictures always is a big advantage, and a sophisticated radio-astronomy technique using continent-wide and even intercontinental arrays of telescopes is yielding extremely valuable scientific results in a wide range of specialties. That's the message delivered to the American Astronomical Society's meeting in Austin, Texas, by Mark Reid of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a leading researcher in the field of ultra-precise astronomical position measurements. ...> Full Article |
 | Carnegie Mellon University joined the collaboration building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and is now among the 23 universities, national laboratories and corporations involved in constructing the world's most powerful survey telescope. ...> Full Article |
 | Nestled high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, a rocky plot of ground will be the site for the world's largest telescope - one so powerful that it is expected to give perhaps the first definitive answer of whether or not there is life beyond Earth. ...> Full Article |
 | A model of the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-InfraRed Instrument is being tested at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England to ensure the final instrument can see infrared light. ...> Full Article |
 | The space-borne telescope, COROT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits), has just completed its first year in orbit. The observatory has brought in surprises after over 300 days of scientific observations. ...> Full Article |
 | Tom Nichols, a mechanical engineer at Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, works on the HMI. ...> Full Article |
 | Hubble has sent back an early Christmas card with this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 74. It is an enchanting reminder of the impending season. Resembling glittering baubles on a holiday wreath, bright knots of glowing gas light up the spiral arms, with regions of new star birth shining in pink. ...> Full Article |
 | Space scientists from UNSW and China have built an unmanned observatory destined for what they hope is the world's best place for stargazing in Antarctica. ...> Full Article |
 | Formerly, the Sun was the largest object in the Solar System. Now, comet 17P/Holmes holds that distinction. ...> Full Article |
 | A pair of galaxies, known collectively as Arp 87, is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby Universe. Arp 87 was originally discovered and catalogued by astronomer Halton Arp in the 1970s. Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a compilation of astronomical photographs using the Palomar 200-inch Hale and the 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescopes. ...> Full Article |
 | New images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope - part of a research project led by UC Riverside's Gabriela Canalizo - have revealed the wild side of an elliptical galaxy, nearly two billion light-years away, that previously had been considered mild-mannered. ...> Full Article |
 | A spectacular new image shows how complex a star's afterlife can be. ...> Full Article |
 | In a landmark test flight a team of research partners this month successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet, borne by a balloon larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The test clears the way for long-duration polar balloon flights beginning in 2009 that will capture unprecedented details of the Sun's surface. ...> Full Article |
 | Telescope will allow scientists to get a first look back at the birth of the universe ...> Full Article |
 | Astronomers have announced that the first 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) have been activated and collecting scientific data from the far reaches of the universe. This is the first phase of a planned 350 radio dishes that will advance the capabilities of radio astronomy research. ...> Full Article |
 | New research from the Niels Bohr Institute presents new information that adds another piece of knowledge to the jigsaw puzzle of the dark mystery of the universe -- dark matter. ...> Full Article |
Researchers helped to locate what they call the 'Lego building blocks of galaxies.' They did so by looking in a place that other astronomers already had looked, but with fresh eyes.
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Undergraduate astronomy students at the University of Washington combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed. That is about one out of every 250 known objects in the solar system.
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 | A tiny galaxy nearly halfway across the universe, the smallest in size and mass known to exist at that distance, has been identified and studied by an international team of over a dozen scientists. ...> Full Article |
 | NASA has given the go-ahead to restart an astrophysics mission that will provide a greater capability for using high-energy Xrays to detect black holes than any existing instrument has. ...> Full Article |
 | Delayed gamma rays from deep space may provide the first evidence for physics beyond current theories. ...> Full Article |
 | In a shock finding, astronomers using CSIRO's Parkes telescope have detected a huge burst of radio energy from the distant universe that could open up a new field in astrophysics. ...> Full Article |
 | NASA has announced its intent to restart a small scientific satellite mission it had canceled in 2006 because of funding pressures created in part by the shift in the agency's focus to manned missions to the moon and Mars. ...> Full Article |
 | Summer season on Neptune creates escape route for methane ...> Full Article |
 | An international team of astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona has discovered that the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy is shaped like a cigar. That makes it an oddball among millions of its peers. ...> Full Article |
 | By the end of 2007, the assembly of the ESA's Herschel far-infrared space observatory - the latest mission to study the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies - will be completed. ...> Full Article |
 | A team of astronomers led by Cambridge University have taken pictures of the stars that are sharper than anything produced by the Hubble telescope, at 50 thousandths of the cost. ...> Full Article |
 | NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted an amazingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space at supersonic speeds. "I was shocked when I first saw this completely unexpected, humongous tail trailing behind a well-known star," said Caltech's Christopher Martin. ...> Full Article |
 | Five institutions from North America and Europe have created a consortium to oversee the building of a 25-meter submillimeter telescope on a high elevation in Chile. When completed in 2013, the $100 million instrument will be the premier telescope of its kind in the world. ...> Full Article |
 | By combining the capabilities of several telescopes, teams of scientists, including University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomers, have spotted extremely bright galaxies hiding in the distant, young universe. They are the most luminous and prolific galaxies seen at that great distance, churning out stars at a rate 1,000 times greater than that of the Milky Way. ...> Full Article |
 | The world's largest bolometer camera for submillimetre astronomy is now in service at the 12-m APEX telescope, located on the 5100m high Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes. LABOCA was specifically designed for the study of extremely cold astronomical objects and, with its large field of view and very high sensitivity, will open new vistas in our knowledge of how stars form and how the first galaxies emerged from the Big Bang. ...> Full Article |
 | On the night of 21 July, ESO astronomer Yuri Beletsky took images of the night sky above Paranal, the 2600m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert home to ESO's Very Large Telescope. The amazing images bear witness to the unique quality of the sky, revealing not only the Milky Way in all its splendour but also the planet Jupiter and the laser beam used at Yepun, one of the 8.2-m telescopes that make up this extraordinary facility. ...> Full Article |
 | An international team of astronomers with the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey announce today the discovery of TrES-4, a new extrasolar planet in the constellation of Hercules. The new planet was identified by astronomers looking for transiting planets - that is, planets that pass in front of their home star - using a network of small automated telescopes in Arizona, California, and the Canary Islands. TrES-4 was discovered less than half a degree (about the size of the full Moon) from the team's third planet, TrES-3. ...> Full Article |
 | Administrators at New Mexico Tech recently signed a contract with Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS) to have the Belgian company design and build telescopes for the research university's Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) Interferometer project. ...> Full Article |
Computer science PhD candidate Dustin Lang has embarked on his own Star Trek as part of astronometry.net, a collaboration between computer scientists at U of T and astronomers at New York University.
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 | University of Arizona astronomers who are probing the oxygen-rich environment around a supergiant star with one of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes have discovered a score of molecules that include compounds needed for life. ...> Full Article |
Chemists at Queen's University Belfast are working with NASA and scientists in Canada and the United States to design a telescope that can be stationed on the Moon.
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