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 | This global set of data will serve users and researchers from a wide array of disciplines that need elevation and terrain information.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 30, 2009 |
 | Pictures show features on Mars are similar to landforms on Earth typical of areas where permafrost terrain is melting.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: June 29, 2009 |
 | While extraction plans for the Spirit rover are developed and tested during the coming weeks, the team plans to have the craft analyze the soil from different depths.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: June 26, 2009 |
 | The Cincinnati Observatory (COC) is awarding forty 8-inch Dobsonian telescopes to deserving students, teachers, and community leaders across the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana region.
Dean Regas, Outreach Astronomer, COC
Published: June 26, 2009 |
 | Scientists confirm that the expanding envelopes created by exploded stars are the super-accelerators that produce cosmic rays in the Milky Way.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: June 25, 2009 |
 | The institute's role is to convert the raw science data into files that can be analyzed by Kepler researchers and to store the files every 3 months in an archive.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: June 25, 2009 |
 | One suggested explanation for the contrasting results from the two studies is that deep caverns may exist where water evaporates slowly.
Provided by the University of Colorado, Boulder
Published: June 24, 2009 |
 | X-ray data show that a significant source of power within these colossal structures is from growing supermassive black holes partially obscured by dense layers of dust and gas.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: June 24, 2009 |
 | The spacecraft's instruments will help scientists compile high-resolution, three-dimensional maps of the lunar surface and survey it at many spectral wavelengths.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 23, 2009 |
 | On June 9, Odyssey's operations team at JPL and at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colorado, commanded the spacecraft to fire the thrusters again. This 5.5-minute burn ended the drift pattern and locked the spacecraft into the mid-afternoon overpass time.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: June 23, 2009 |
 | This teenaged supernova sleuth is working to inspire more young people to explore the hobby of astronomy. By Daniel Pendick
Published: June 22, 2009 |
 | Solar wind particles impact only the dayside of the Moon, where most of them are embedded in the lunar surface.
Provided by the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Published: June 19, 2009 |
 | The spacecraft's instruments will help scientists compile high-resolution, three-dimensional maps of the Moon's surface.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 19, 2009 |
 | Diviner is a nine-channel radiometer device that will make the first maps of the temperature on the surface of the lunar polar regions.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: June 18, 2009 |
 | Sonograms of the Sun explain mystery of the missing sunspots.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 17, 2009 |
 | SGR 0501+4516 is the first new soft gamma repeater, one of two types of magnetars, discovered after a decade of searches.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: June 17, 2009 |
 | The concentration of neon allows scientists to determine the time a grain has spent in interstellar space.
Provided by the University of Chicago
Published: June 16, 2009 |
 | Michael Wyatt, participating scientist on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, offers a firsthand account of the days leading up to the launch of NASA's lunar-bound craft. He's at Cape Canaveral and will provide exclusive updates to Astronomy.com throughout the week.
Published: June 16, 2009 |
 | Keep up with Astronomy magazine's coverage of this important mission. Here you'll find the latest headlines and blogs about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
Published: June 15, 2009 |
 | The unique survey already has found many new cosmic explosions, including 32 Type Ia supernovae, eight Type II supernovae, and four cataclysmic variable stars.
Provided by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Published: June 15, 2009 |
 | NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will map the lunar surface, while the LCROSS will crash into the Moon's surface in search of water. By Daniel Pendick
Published: June 15, 2009 |
 | The conference affords scientists an opportunity to compare notes about how much closer they've come to theoretically confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Provided by Indiana University, Bloomington
Published: June 12, 2009 |
 | This group will help transition the knowledge and experience from the existing human spaceflight programs into the development and execution of our exploration program in the years to come.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 12, 2009 |
 | An embedded moon in a very narrow gap can have a smaller mass than that inferred by earlier techniques.
Provided by the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Published: June 11, 2009 |
 | Before now, there were only a few clues that stars can form in the Milky Way Galaxy's core.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 10, 2009 |
 | Among the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer expected finds are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system's asteroid belt and hundreds of additional asteroids that come near Earth.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 10, 2009 |
 | This could be the oldest known orbiting protoplanetary molecular disk, and it shows that, at least for some stars, formation of Jovian-mass planets may continue well after the few million years.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 10, 2009 |
 | To improve the accuracy of the standard technique, astronomers incorporated additional constraints that arise from the spin-up process and physical limits on the maximum spin period.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 9, 2009 |
 | Over 15 years Betelgeuse has decreased in size about 15 percent, changing smoothly, but faster as the years progressed.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 9, 2009 |
 | The Submillimeter Array finds a massive core in a cold, dark cloud.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 9, 2009 |
 | The Lonestar supercomputer result was a larger mass for M87's black hole than what previous models have found.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 8, 2009 |
 | The test is part of an effort to design a system for safely propelling future spacecraft and crews away from hazards on the launch pad or during the climb to orbit.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 5, 2009 |
 | Scientists think the sluggishness of temperature changes at the surface and low atmosphere on Titan may be responsible for its unexpected warm and wet, hence cloudy, late summer.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: June 5, 2009 |
 | This is the sixth time since the spacecraft's August 2005 launch that it has entered safe mode.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: June 5, 2009 |
 | The 16-day mission will feature five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 4, 2009 |
 | New observations show that the masses of stars in the Arches Cluster actually match up with those in other star clusters.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: June 4, 2009 |
 | The hand-over is the next step in preparing the first flight test of the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch system.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 2, 2009 |
 | Research from the proposals during the five-year award period will pave the way for development of effective countermeasures for space travelers.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 2, 2009 |
During the course of the review, the panel will examine ongoing and planned NASA development activities and potential alternatives in order to present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable, and sustainable human space flight program following the space shuttle's retirement.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 1, 2009 |
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