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 | Titan's surface winds blow opposite the direction suggested by previous global circulation models.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 27, 2009 |
 | A study of old pulsars is critical for understanding the long-term evolution of neutron stars.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: February 27, 2009 |
 | NASA managers have decided further understanding of the valve work is required before launching Discovery.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 26, 2009 |
 | The possibility that planet migration perturbed asteroids may have contributed to a heavy bombardment of the inner solar system.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: February 26, 2009 |
 | Science On a Sphere is an exciting new projection technology.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: February 25, 2009 |
 | The central part of this nebula reveals not only knots, but also many remote galaxies seen right through the thinly spread glowing gas.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: February 25, 2009 |
 | Spend an evening with this 5th-magnitude "dirty snowball." By Michael E. Bakich
Published: February 24, 2009 |
 | The nightglow on Venus has been seen at infrared wavelengths before, but this is the first detection of nitric oxide at those wavelengths.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 24, 2009 |
 | NASA is investigating the reason for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory failure.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 24, 2009 |
 | Scientists can verify some of the hypotheses for massive star formation against observations for the first time.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: February 23, 2009 |
 | Swift's images of Lulin reveal a hydroxyl cloud spanning nearly 250,000 miles (402,000 kilometers), or slightly greater than the distance between Earth and the Moon.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: February 20, 2009 |
 | The mission will spend three-and-a-half years surveying more than 100,000 Sun-like stars in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 20, 2009 |
 | Instruments provide a view of the blast's initial gamma-ray emission from energies beween 3,000 to more than 5 billion times that of visible light.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 20, 2009 |
 | Scientists are witnessing galaxies that form out of a cloud of primordial gas.
Provided by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: February 19, 2009 |
 | Nearly one third of the United Kingdom is just as likely to associate the name Galileo with wine, fashion, or a famous ship before associating him with astronomy.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: February 19, 2009 |
 | Based on studies and stringent independent assessments, the U.S. Europa Jupiter System Mission is technically more feasible to implement first.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 18, 2009 |
 | Scientists will use data from debris clouds to determine the presence or absence of water ice.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 18, 2009 |
 | The details from Galaxy Zoo 2 will help scientists discover even more about how galaxies work.
Provided by Oxford Univeristy, United Kindgtom
Published: February 17, 2009 |
 | The South Pole Telescope team will search for gravity waves.
Provided by the University of Chicago
Published: February 16, 2009 |
 | The Red Planet's gravitational field will provide Dawn spacecraft extra momentum for its journey to the asteroid belt.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 16, 2009 |
 | During the February 18 Mars encounter, Dawn's neutron and gamma-ray detector will conduct several activities as practice for its Ceres and Vesta analyses.
Provided by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
Published: February 13, 2009 |
 | An observer on a planet inside an Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxy would have seen a night sky as bright as day on Earth.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: February 13, 2009 |
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The orbiter will carry seven instruments to provide scientists with detailed maps of the lunar surface and enhance our understanding of the Moon.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 12, 2009 |
 | Areas of study are poised for major advances with the impending arrival of powerful new radio-telescope facilities.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: February 12, 2009 |
 | The destroyed satellite was part of a 66-orbiter constellation.
Published: February 12, 2009 |
 | Through scientific calculations, scientists look back in time and hope to learn how galaxies like our own were made and understand more about dark matter.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: February 11, 2009 |
 | The extensions will help scientists further understand the three planets.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 11, 2009 |
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The Webb telescope will be able to see "back in time" to the first light after the Big Bang.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: February 10, 2009 |
 | Because of recent outbursts, astronomers will classify the object as a soft-gamma-ray repeater - only the sixth known.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 10, 2009 |
 | Huge prints of spectacular images will be distributed to selected sites so the public can share in the exploration and wonder of the universe.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 10, 2009 |
 | Comet Lulin is a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 9, 2009 |
 | The combined power of the short-wavelength radio telescopes will enable astronomers to probe with unprecedented sharpness phenomena and regions that are beyond the reach of visible-light telescopes.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: February 9, 2009 |
 | The GMT will produce images 10 times sharper from its site in northern Chile than the Hubble Space Telescope does from space.
Provided by University of Arizona at Tucson
Published: February 6, 2009 |
 | Scientists study crater degradation in potentially ice-rich environments to understand the geology of craters and their surroundings.
Provided by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
Published: February 6, 2009 |
 | Scientists have observed a double-star system that displays all the characteristics that astronomers suspect are associated with dust production.
Provided by the University of Chicago
Published: February 5, 2009 |
 | Axel, a future robotic spacecraft, will be better able to explore and investigate foreign worlds.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 5, 2009 |
 | Astronomers have devised a new method that uses interferometry to resolve asteroids as small as about 9 miles (14 kilometers) in diameter.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 4, 2009 |
 | Astronomers used a host of telescopes around the world and in orbit to discover a smoking gun that connects black holes with the formation of the surprisingly fluffy centers of giant elliptical galaxies.
Provided by McDonald Observatory, Austin, Texas
Published: February 3, 2009 |
 | Users can fly through enormous canyons and scale huge mountains or explore the Red Planet through the eyes of the Mars rovers.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 3, 2009 |
 | Astronomers detected the new planet, COROT-Exo-7b, as it transited its parent star, dimming the light from the star as it passed in front of it.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 3, 2009 |
 | Scientists will use the data to analyze the system and prepare for the Ares I-X flight test and the development of the Ares I crew launch vehicle.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 2, 2009 |
 | Each group will focus on a unique aspect of the collision in an attempt to get as much scientific data from the incident as possible.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 2, 2009 |
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