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UK Space Agency

Fly your experiment to the edge of space!

2 Sep 2010, 14:08 UTC Fly your experiment to the edge of space!

Herschel News

Recipe for water: just add starlight

1 Sep 2010, 16:58 UTC Herschel has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is a key ingredient for making water in the atmosphere of some stars. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour.

ESO Top News

The Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666

1 Sep 2010, 10:00 UTC The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the centre of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 4666 is a remarkable galaxy with very vigorous star formation and an unusual “superwind” of out-flowing gas. It had previously been observed in X-rays by the ESA XMM-Newton space telescope, and the image presented here was taken to allow further study of other objects detected in the earlier X-ray observations.

ESA Space Science

Cluster turns the invisible into the visible

1 Sep 2010, 09:00 UTC Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental processes that occur across the Universe. And there is more work to do.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Seven Things You Didn't Know About Mercury

1 Sep 2010, 04:00 UTC Mercury's exosphere is a place of amazing activity that can tell astronomers a lot about the planet's surface and environment.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Newest GOES Satellite Ready for Action

1 Sep 2010, 04:00 UTC The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15 (also known as GOES-P), has been accepted into service.

ESA Top News

Satellite navigation steers unmanned micro-planes

31 Aug 2010, 23:00 UTC An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA’s Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land erosion.

University of Florida

With new technique, UF astronomers find potassium in giant planet’s atmosphere

31 Aug 2010, 15:28 UTC GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Any driver who’s seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Any driver who’s seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects. Building on this concept, University of Florida astronomers have analyzed light passing through the upper atmosphere of the giant planet HD 80606 b, about 190 light years from Earth, and determined that its atmosphere contains the element potassium. “It’s wonderful that this method works so well for Jupiter-sized planets,” said Knicole Colón, a UF astronomy doctoral student. “Now, we’re working to apply this technique to observe smaller planets in an effort to pinpoint the components of their atmospheres.” Coincidentally, another team led by David Sing at the University of Exeter, in Devon, U.K., has just used the same technique to detect potassium in the atmosphere of XO-2b, another huge planet about 485 light years from Earth. Both planets, known as gas giants, have extremely high temperatures by earthly standards – HD 80606 b reaches about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit and XO-2b is about 1,700 degrees. ...

ASTRON

Dutch school teacher plays leading part in American comic

31 Aug 2010, 10:14 UTC The story of the discovery of the mysterious green gas cloud, which is discovered by school teacher Hanny van Arkel and is internationally known as 'Hanny's Voorwerp', has been made into an American comic book. Hanny van Arkel and the team of scientists, among who are ASTRON scientists, have been immortalized in the unlikely, but true story "Hanny and the mystery of the Voorwerp". The comic, which will also appear on the internet and as a book, will be presented officially on Friday 3 September in Atlanta (USA) during the world's largest science fiction meeting 'DragonCon'. Read more

Keck Observatory

Spectrum of Young Extrasolar Planet Yields Surprising Results

30 Aug 2010, 18:00 UTC Kamuela, HI - Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet around another star using the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the results are puzzling. They have found that its atmosphere is unlike that of any previously studied extrasolar planet. By obtaining a spectrum of its emitted light, the astronomers determined the temperature of the planet. As a result, they found that current theoretical models of gas-giant planets did a poor job of explaining all the data. The team suspects that the reason is dust in the planet’s atmosphere. Models with normal amounts…

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2 Sep 2010
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- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Newest GOES Satellite Ready for Action The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15 (also known as GOES-P), has been accepted into service.
31 Aug 2010
- 23:00 UTC ESA Top News Satellite navigation steers unmanned micro-planes An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA’s Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped ...
- 17:33 UTC Science and Technol... A new view of the Universe From digital cameras to GPS, a series of articles explain how technology developed for astronomy has shaped our world, whilst case studies of former PhD students show how many astronomers ...
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30 Aug 2010
- 18:28 UTC Arianespace Press R... Another heavy-lift success for Ariane 5 Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch services provider.
- 18:00 UTC Keck Observatory Spectrum of Young Extrasolar Planet Yields Surprising Res... Kamuela, HI - Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet around another star using the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the results ...
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