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 | Ground teams are preparing for the final part of launch dress rehearsal for the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 30, 2009 |
 | Scanning the entire sky every 3 hours, the Large Area Telescope is giving Fermi scientists an increasingly detailed look at the extreme universe.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 29, 2009 |
 | One of the most spectacular star clusters nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross in the constellation Crux.
Provided by Hubble ESA, Garching, Germany
Published: October 29, 2009 |
 | The galaxy cluster JKCS041 beats the previous record holder by about a billion light-years.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: October 29, 2009 |
 | NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a 2-minute powered flight.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 28, 2009 |
 | The Ares I-X launch team is preparing for a 24-hour turnaround, targeting 8 a.m. on Wednesday as liftoff time for the Ares I-X flight test vehicle.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 27, 2009 |
 | For the first time, scientists observed the neutron output from an average-sized solar flare.
Provided by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
Published: October 26, 2009 |
 | Astronomy's Out-of-this-world Award recognizes excellence in astronomy outreach. The winning group receives $2,500 to put toward their public programming. By Bill Andrews
Published: October 23, 2009 |
 | The swing-by will provide exactly the boost Rosetta needs to continue into the outer solar system.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: October 22, 2009 |
 | This test flight of the Ares I-X rocket will provide NASA an early opportunity to test and prove hardware, models, facilities, and ground operations associated with the Ares I launch vehicle.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 22, 2009 |
 | Awards and more time on a top supercomputer will dramatically enhance team's access to the most sophisticated computer power in the world.
Provided by the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Published: October 20, 2009 |
 | Scientists compiled data from 6 months of observations with the Interstellar Boundary Explorer to produce the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 20, 2009 |
 | Instruments successfully captured each phase of the impact sequence — the impact flash, the ejecta plume, and the creation of the Centaur crater.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 19, 2009 |
 | Debris from Halley's Comet gives birth to one of 2009's best meteor showers. By Richard Talcott
Published: October 19, 2009 |
 | The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher is the world's foremost exoplanet hunter.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: October 19, 2009 |
 | Electrically charged particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface and produce water.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: October 15, 2009 |
 | The Near-Infrared Spectrograph will be sensitive to wavelengths from distant galaxies and will be capable of simultaneously analyzing the chemical composition of more than 100 objects.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: October 14, 2009 |
 | Study will focus on identifying technologies and assessing their potential use to accelerate the development of commercial reusable launch vehicles.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 14, 2009 |
 | The cloning of "normal" people into Galileo Galileis has continued in Cincinnati.
Dean Regas, Outreach Astronomer, COC
Published: October 12, 2009 |
 | The geology and the paucity of impact craters on Europa suggest that the top of the ice is continually reformed such that the current surface is only about 50 million years old.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 9, 2009 |
 | LCROSS science instruments worked exceedingly well and returned a wealth of data that will greatly improve our understanding of the Moon.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 9, 2009 |
 | Despite public disappointment over the lack of a visible debris plume, NASA remains confident of the mission's success. By Bill Andrews
Published: October 9, 2009 |
 | Additional observations of the asteroid rule out any possibility of an impact in 2029.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: October 8, 2009 |
 | LCROSS made history when it slammed into the Moon Friday morning. By Bill Andrews
Published: October 7, 2009 |
 | LCROSS will send the upper stage Centaur rocket crashing into Cabeus and a shepherd spacecraft will fly into the plume of dust generated and measure its properties before making a second impact with the lunar surface.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: October 7, 2009 |
 | It would take about one billion Earths stacked together to fill the ring.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: October 7, 2009 |
 | Analysis of the wind vector maps disclosed new evidence that the inverse energy cascade process supplies the energy that forms and sustains Jupiter's numerous jet streams.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 6, 2009 |
 | Evaporation is the most likely scenario for observed changes on Titan's surface.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: October 6, 2009 |
 | The LCROSS mission is seeking to find if water ice is present in a crater near the Moon's south pole.
Provided by Exploratorium, San Francisco, California
Published: October 6, 2009 |
 | Astronomers combined observations and meteorite analysis to work out the shape and orientation of the asteroid that crashed into northern Sudan.
Provided by SETI, Mountain View, California
Published: October 5, 2009 |
 | The study identifies some potential habitats in the solar system and shows how the habitability of Earth has changed.
Provided by the University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo
Published: October 5, 2009 |
 | The new pictures unveil a small part of our Milky Way Galaxy as we have never seen it before.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: October 2, 2009 |
 | Scientists will measure the spectra of a thousand galaxies and quasars.
Published: October 1, 2009 |
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Published: October 1, 2009 |
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