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ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration
19 Jan 2015, 13:57 UTC
Inspired by ESA’s Rosetta mission and the upcoming NASA OSIRIS-Rex mission, Zero Robotics finalists were given the task to simulate imaging a virtual asteroid on the International Space Station last Friday. Secondary-school students from across Europe controlled miniature satellites on the International Space Station in a competition to get the best images.
Conclusion of SPHERES Zero Robotics 2014 challenge
19 Jan 2015, 13:57 UTC
Inspired by ESA’s Rosetta mission and the upcoming NASA OSIRIS-Rex mission, Zero Robotics finalists were given the task to simulate imaging a virtual asteroid on the International Space Station last Friday. Secondary-school students from across Europe controlled miniature satellites on the International Space Station in a competition to get the best images.
Square Kilometer Array
19 Jan 2015, 12:00 UTC
Experiment will combine signals from hundreds of radio dishes to make cosmic atlas 19 January 2015, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank Observatory – Scientists from around the world have joined forces to lay the foundations for an experiment of truly astronomical proportions: putting together the biggest map of the Universe ever made. In a series of papers published today on the arXiv.org astrophysics pre-print website (http://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new), an international team of researchers set out their plans for the mammoth survey. Researchers from the Cosmology Science Working Group of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have worked out how to use the world’s largest telescope for the task. “The team has produced an exciting collection of cutting-edge ideas that will help shape the future of cosmology”, said Working Group chair Roy Maartens, from the University of Western Cape in South Africa. The SKA will be a collection of thousands of radio receivers and dishes spread across two sites in South Africa and Western Australia. When the first phase is completed in 2023, the SKA will have a total collecting area equivalent to 15 football pitches, and will produce more data in one day than several times the daily traffic of the entire internet. ...
Astronomers preparing to map the Universe with largest radio telescope ever built
19 Jan 2015, 12:00 UTC
Experiment will combine signals from hundreds of radio dishes to make cosmic atlas 19 January 2015, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank Observatory – Scientists from around the world have joined forces to lay the foundations for an experiment of truly astronomical proportions: putting together the biggest map of the Universe ever made. In a series of papers published today on the arXiv.org astrophysics pre-print website (http://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new), an international team of researchers set out their plans for the mammoth survey. Researchers from the Cosmology Science Working Group of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have worked out how to use the world’s largest telescope for the task. “The team has produced an exciting collection of cutting-edge ideas that will help shape the future of cosmology”, said Working Group chair Roy Maartens, from the University of Western Cape in South Africa. The SKA will be a collection of thousands of radio receivers and dishes spread across two sites in South Africa and Western Australia. When the first phase is completed in 2023, the SKA will have a total collecting area equivalent to 15 football pitches, and will produce more data in one day than several times the daily traffic of the entire internet. ...
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
19 Jan 2015, 08:02 UTC
A team of astronomers using twelve telescopes from around the world, and in space, have for the first time captured a 'fast radio burst' happening live.
Cosmic Radio Burst Caught Red-Handed
19 Jan 2015, 08:02 UTC
A team of astronomers using twelve telescopes from around the world, and in space, have for the first time captured a 'fast radio burst' happening live.
Planetary Science Institute
19 Jan 2015, 07:49 UTC
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft discovered and characterized 40 near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the first year after the mission was re-started in December 2013. Eight of the discoveries have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), based on their size and how close their orbits could come to Earth's orbit. PSI Senior Scientist Tommy Grav is involved in day-to-day operations of the mission and is part of the team that runs the software to extract and analyze the detections of the moving objects in the images. “NEOWISE continues to be a work-horse for detecting asteroids and comets, providing data on more than 10,000 objects over the last year,” Grav said. “These data is key in better understanding the physical and dynamical properties of the small bodies in our solar system, especially the Near-Earth asteroid population.” The mission has further observed and characterized 245 previously known near-Earth objects. From December 2013 to December 2014, NEOWISE discovered three new comets and observed 32 others. One of the others has turned into the brightest comet in Earth's night sky in early 2015, comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). Above, this movie shows the progression of NASA's NEOWISE survey in the mission's first ...
NEOWISE Successful in Past Year's Operation
19 Jan 2015, 07:49 UTC
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft discovered and characterized 40 near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the first year after the mission was re-started in December 2013. Eight of the discoveries have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), based on their size and how close their orbits could come to Earth's orbit. PSI Senior Scientist Tommy Grav is involved in day-to-day operations of the mission and is part of the team that runs the software to extract and analyze the detections of the moving objects in the images. “NEOWISE continues to be a work-horse for detecting asteroids and comets, providing data on more than 10,000 objects over the last year,” Grav said. “These data is key in better understanding the physical and dynamical properties of the small bodies in our solar system, especially the Near-Earth asteroid population.” The mission has further observed and characterized 245 previously known near-Earth objects. From December 2013 to December 2014, NEOWISE discovered three new comets and observed 32 others. One of the others has turned into the brightest comet in Earth's night sky in early 2015, comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). Above, this movie shows the progression of NASA's NEOWISE survey in the mission's first ...
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
18 Jan 2015, 23:00 UTC
Astronomers prepare to map the Universe with largest radio telescope ever built
Square Kilometre Array: The Cosmology Engine
18 Jan 2015, 23:00 UTC
Astronomers prepare to map the Universe with largest radio telescope ever built
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
16 Jan 2015, 19:06 UTC
The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
'Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
16 Jan 2015, 19:06 UTC
The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
