2009-01-06 21:57:54
NASA's Swift spacecraft is designed to hunt for gamma-ray bursts. But in the time between these almost-daily cosmic explosions, Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) scans the sky, performing an ongoing X-ray survey. Some of the first results of that survey were shared at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, California. The ...

2009-01-06 21:21:15
The debate of whether or not a supermassive black hole (SMBH) was kicked out of the centre of a galaxy continues in the Black Holes I session at the AAS. According to Stefanie Komossa and her team at the Max Plank Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) back in May 2008, spectroscopic data of a galactic ...

2009-01-06 20:08:57
We did a wildly popular three part series about the center, size and shape of the Universe. But every good trilogy needs a 4th episode. This week we look at age of the Universe. How old is the Universe, and how do we know? And how has this number changed over time as astronomers ...

2009-01-06 19:50:45
We've talked about brown dwarfs here on Universe Today for years and years. These are the "failed stars"; objects with too little mass to fully ignite nuclear fusion in their cores. Instead of blazing with red, yellow or the white light of our own stars, they're heated by the gravitational collapse of material. They're called ...

2009-01-06 18:06:54
A Connecticut-based inventor has proposed sending two space shuttles to Mars.

2009-01-06 17:17:28
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found 12 previously unknown gamma-ray only pulsars, as well as identifying gamma-ray emissions from 18 known or suspected radio pulsars. And what the telescope is finding is changing the way we think of these stellar cinders. The old analogy for pulsars was a lighthouse: gamma-rays were thought ...

2009-01-06 17:06:30
NASA's options to extend shuttle flights beyond 2010 carry billions in costs.

2009-01-06 17:06:30
Observations show black holes once more massive than galactic bulges, likely came first.

2009-01-06 17:04:12
Arianespace wins contract from Intelsa

2009-01-06 17:03:15
NASA Awards Agency-Wide Conferencing Services Contract

2009-01-06 17:02:15
NASA Invites North Carolina Teachers to Participate in Workshop Series

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NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report 6 January 2009

2009-01-06 16:54:40
NOAA SEC Space Weather Outlook #09- 1

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Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 06 Jan 2009

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NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Tuesday, January 06, 2009

2009-01-06 15:54:24
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

2009-01-06 15:36:37
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most brilliant events, and now astronomers have been able to shed light on the composition of these spectacular phenomena, providing insight into star formation when the universe was about one-sixth its present age. Combining data from NASA's Swift satellite, the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and other facilities ...

2009-01-06 15:06:16
After a day of crazy traveling through a Vancouver blizzard I'm now having my first full day down at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Long Beach, California. As you've probably read, Ian's here with me and Nancy's supporting us back at Atkinson HQ. My last AAS meeting was a year ago. It was fun ...

2009-01-06 14:43:03
The Hubble Space Telescope serendipitously captured a mysterious burst of light on February 21, 2006. Over the next 100 days, the object, cataloged as SCP 06F6, brightened and then slowly faded. Astronomers do not know the object's distance, so it can either be in our Milky Way galaxy or at a great ...

2009-01-06 13:50:15
An ongoing X-ray survey is revealing differences between nearby active galaxies and those located about halfway across the universe. Understanding these differences will help clarify the relationship between a galaxy and its central black hole.

2009-01-06 13:45:36
Astronomers combining data from NASA's Swift satellite, the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and other facilities have, for the first time, identified gas molecules in the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.

2009-01-06 13:42:00
NASA Astronauts Connect with Lucky Las Vegas School Students

2009-01-06 13:41:00
Astronomers use gamma-ray burst to probe star formation in the early universe

2009-01-06 13:38:20
Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Management Training

2009-01-06 13:27:57
Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly -- and wrongly -- lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs.

2009-01-06 13:22:59
Want to know what it's like to fly through a supernova remnant? Then, THIS, you have to see. You'll be able to experience SNR Cassiopeia A (Cas A) as never before, and see it across both time and space. Another time lapse animation shows the remnant's expansion and changes over time, ...

2009-01-06 13:06:48
The shuttle Discovery is poised to move closer to the first shuttle flight of 2009.

2009-01-06 13:06:48
SpaceX has assembled the first Falcon 9 rocket at its Florida launch site.

2009-01-06 10:55:38
Things are a-changing over at the Kennedy Space Center launch complex. The first lightning tower for the Ares rockets has been completed, dwarfing all the other structures on pad 39B. The tower is for the new lightning protection system for the Constellation Program. Other towers are being constructed at left and behind the ...

2009-01-06 08:06:28
Studies of asteroids around dead stars spawn new hope that Earth-like planets are plentiful.

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