By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever…
Read the articleMars Express, ESA’s deep-space probe orbiting the Red Planet, carries a Visual Monitoring Camera that originally provided simple, low-resolution photos of the separation of the Beagle…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 539 Dwarf novae observations requested for VLA campaign March 1, 2016 Ms. Deanne Coppejans (PhD candidate, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and University of…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 538 Observations of V694 Mon (MWC 560) requested for Chandra campaign February 26, 2016 Dr. Jeno Sokoloski (Columbia University) and Mr. Adrian Lucy…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 537 Observations of a secondary eclipse of b Persei requested February 26, 2016 Dr. Donald F. Collins (AAVSO member, Swannanoa, NC), Dr. Robert…
Read the articleThis animation visualised milestones during the launch of the ExoMars 2016 mission and its cruise to Mars. The mission comprises the Trace Gas Orbiter and an…
Read the articleSilent since its last call to mothership Rosetta seven months ago, the Philae lander is facing conditions on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from which it is unlikely to…
Read the articleAsteroid Day is an annual global movement to increase public awareness of potential asteroid impacts with Earth, and the importance of guarding against them. It was…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 536 SS Cyg monitoring requested for radio campaign February 8, 2016 Further to AAVSOSpecial Notice #412, Dr. James Miller-Jones (International Centre for Radio…
Read the articleNASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity’s most distant solar-powered emissary. The milestone occurred at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST,…
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