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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 07 June 2007
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 NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration managers officially are targeting Sept. 10, 2008, for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. During the 11-day flight, Atlantis' seven astronauts will repair and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 07 June 2007
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 Live Science: Power cables and even batteries might become a thing of the past using a new technique that can transmit power wirelessly to cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, household robots and other electronics.
Scientists lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source seven feet away with their new technique, with no physical connection between the source and the appliance. The researchers have dubbed their concept "WiTricity," as in "wireless electricity."
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 07 June 2007
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 Space.com: The most distant black hole ever found is nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers announced today.
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope spotted the bright burst of light the black hole created as it sucked up nearby gas, heating it and causing it to glow very brightly in what's known as a quasar.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 06 June 2007
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 Space.com: To the naked eye, galactic cluster 3C438 looks like any other patch of starry sky. But the Chandra space telescope's X-ray vision paints an extremely different picture-bursting from the cluster's center is a cloud of energy equivalent to 1 billion exploding Suns, an event that may be universe's most energetic ever detected.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Monday, 04 June 2007
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 NASA: The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will make its closest pass to Venus on Tuesday, June 5. This will place the spacecraft on target for a flyby of Mercury in January 2008. MESSENGER will be the first probe to visit the innermost planet in more than 30 years.
Threading its path through an aim point 209 miles above the surface of Venus, MESSENGER will use the pull of the planet's gravity to guide it closer to Mercury. During this flyby, Venus's gravity will change the spacecraft's direction around the sun and decelerate it from 22.7 to 17.3 miles per second.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Saturday, 02 June 2007
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 Miami Herald: A union representing 570 space shuttle program workers at the Kennedy Space Center voted to strike Saturday, less than a week before the planned launch of the shuttle Atlantis. The International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers, which represents the United Space Alliance employees, rejected the company's contract offer Saturday morning, Florida Today reported.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 31 May 2007
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 MSNBC.com: Engineers will travel to the Puerto Rican coastal town of Arecibo in coming weeks to study whether to shut down the world’s largest radio telescope, which was featured in the movie “Contact” but now faces steep budget cuts, observatory officials said Thursday. Opened in 1963, the Arecibo telescope, a 1,000-foot-wide (300-meter-wide) dish set in a sinkhole amid forested hills, bounces radio waves off asteroids and charts their location, speed and course. It has recorded a number of scientific discoveries, including the first planets beyond the solar system and lakes of hydrocarbons on Saturn’s moon Titan.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 31 May 2007
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 Senior NASA managers have selected June 8th as the official launch date for the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The launch time is scheduled for 7:38 PM EDT, from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. STS-117 is expected to spend 12 days in orbit, during which time they will continue the construction of the International Space Station. This mission will include the addition of truss segments for the starboard solar array (planned for completetion in July 2008) and an additional solar array. The Endeavour will be on standby as a rescue shuttle if the Atlantis is damaged beyond the point of safe return.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 31 May 2007
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 Space.com: Newly discovered stellar streams that arc around our galaxy might be the remnants of cannibalized star clusters and galaxies, scientists announced today. The stellar streams findings, described by Caltech's Carl Grillmair here at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, reveal our galaxy can be a dangerous place for passersby.
Stellar streams are thought to form over billions of years as our galaxy's gravity slowly tears apart globular clusters and even dwarf galaxies. The stars, which were once packed tightly together, are now separated by light-years, trailing one another as they jet at high speeds through the galactic halo.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 31 May 2007
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 Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by humans have brought Earth’s climate close to "critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet," according to NASA and the findings of a new study.
"Only moderate additional climate forcing is likely to set in motion disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice," NASA said in a statement about the findings.
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