Fermi Telescope Discovers First Gamma Ray Only Pulsar
About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called…
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A New Kind of Pulsar
About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Just discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object,…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 387: V1721 Aql (Nova Aql 2008)
AAVSO Alert 387: V1721 Aql (Nova Aql 2008) October 3, 2008 Event: Nova in Aquila Discovered by: K. Itagaki (Yamagata, Japan) Discovery date: 2008 September 22.5…
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Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During…
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Returns to Mercury
WASHINGTON — A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and…
Read the articleMars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing on Mars
Dense clusters of crack-like structures called deformation bands form the linear ridges prominent in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on…
Read the articleSend Your Name Around the Earth on NASA’s Glory Mission
Members of the public can send their names around Earth on NASA’s Glory satellite, the first mission dedicated to understanding the effects of particles in the…
Read the articleThe Solar Wind Loses Power
Ulysses Reveals Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low Data from the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission, show the sun has reduced…
Read the articleSky at Night: August 2008 – Double Vision
August 2008 – Double Vision: The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona promises a revolutionary way to look at the night sky. The light from its two…
Read the article“In the Shadow of the Moon” DVD Review
In the Shadow of the Moon (DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray) Starring: Colonel Buzz Aldrin, USAF, R, Captain Alan Bean, USN, R, Captain Eugene Cernan, USN, R, Brig. Gen. Michael…
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