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22 Mar 2010
- 12:33 UTC Science and Technol... Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) During 2009, STFC carried out a review of the Project Research and Development scheme and PPRP processes. The report of the review is available.
- 11:35 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Supermassive black holes: hinting at the nature of dark m... About 23% of the Universe is made up of mysterious ‘dark matter’, invisible material only detected through its gravitational influence on its surroundings. Now two astronomers based at the National ...
- 08:44 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Director's Desk:Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team Workshop:... The Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team (EPR-AT) was appointed by ESA for the purpose of advising the Agency on the best scientific and technological roadmap to pursue in order to address ...
- 08:04 UTC ESA Top News Opening of the new esa-p Supplier Portal The new esa-p Supplier Portal will open to suppliers on Monday March 22nd at 14:00.
21 Mar 2010
- 21:49 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Early galaxy went through 'teenage growth spurt' An international team of astronomers, led by Dr Mark Swinbank, RAS Norman Lockyer Fellow, have found a massive galaxy in the early Universe creating stars like our Sun up to ...
- 21:45 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... Astronomers Get Sharpest View Ever of Star Factories in D... March 21, 2010: Astronomers have combined a natural gravitational lens and a sophisticated telescope array to get the sharpest view ever of "star factories" in a galaxy over 10 billion ...
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News APEX Snaps First Close-up of Star Factories in Distant Un... For the first time, astronomers have made direct measurements of the size and brightness of regions of star-birth in a very distant galaxy, thanks to a chance discovery with the ...
19 Mar 2010
- 21:05 UTC Science@NASA Equinox Sky Show Grab your binoculars. The crescent Moon and the Pleiades star cluster are gathering for a close encounter on the first night of Spring. It's the best Moon-Pleiades meeting over the ...
- 15:12 UTC Royal Astronomical ... RAS on Twitter The RAS is now on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/). Follow @RoyalAstroSoc for updates.
- 13:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D Get larger image formats Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past ...
- 10:26 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Dr Helen Mason named as one of the UK's outstanding women RAS Fellow Dr Helen Mason has been named as one of the Women of Outstanding Achievement of 2010 in recognition of her inspirational work in communication within Science, Engineering and ...
- 08:21 UTC ESA Top News ESA and Thales Alenia Space enter negotiations for MTG The tendering process that will result in the supply of Europe's next series of meteorological satellites, Meteosat Third Generation, has reached an advanced stage as ESA invites Thales Alenia Space ...
- 07:32 UTC ESA Top News New launch date for CryoSat-2 confirmed The technical issue with the second stage of the Dnepr rocket that delayed the launch of ESA's Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite in February has now been resolved – and the ...
- 04:46 UTC Science@NASA The Multiplying Mystery of Moonwater Researchers who once confidently stated that the Moon was bone-dry are now thinking the unthinkable: The Moon has so much water, there's actually a "lunar hydrosphere." International spacecraft have recently ...
- 01:27 UTC Arianespace Press R... ARIANESPACE MARKS 30th ANNIVERSARY OF ARIANE'S FIRST FLIG... Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch services provider.
18 Mar 2010
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... El Niño's Last Hurrah? Satellite data show yet another strong wave of warm water moving eastward across the central equatorial Pacific. Could this be El Niño's last stand?
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather From Earth, Saturn may look like a peaceful orb, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a rough and tumble roller derby among the gas giant's rings.
- 10:26 UTC Science and Technol... Hubble's successor one step closer to completion A working replica of MIRI - the pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - has just been shipped from the STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to ...
- 06:28 UTC Indiana University ... Focus on Mars as historic IU observatory begins weekly op... Indiana University's historic Kirkwood Observatory begins its annual season of free stargazing open houses for the public on Wednesday (March 24) with an evening that literally focuses on Mars, a ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA to Launch Festive Celebration of Space Yuri’s Night Bay Area (YNBA), a stellar celebration of space exploration with music, dance, technology and art, returns to NASA’s Ames Research Center on Saturday, April 10, 2010 from noon ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Education Day Features Multiverse of Learning NASA’s Ames Research Center will host its first Education Day in conjunction with Yuri’s Night on Friday, April 9, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. PDT. School children from ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA IceBridge Mission Prepares for Study of Arctic Glaci... NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day Activities with Live Webcas... NASA EDGE, an award-winning talk show known for offbeat, funny and informative behind-the-scene stories about the space agency, will celebrate Sun-Earth Day 2010, with a live webcast about our sun ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Soyuz Landing Caps Milestone Space Station Mission Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space ...
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Congratulations to Webb Telescope's Mark Clampin! Mark Clampin is a member of a team receiving the 2009 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, awarded annually for the most outstanding article published in the journal "Science". The paper, by ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... ARIANE 5'S UPCOMING MISSION IS POSTPONED The flight of Arianespace's initial Ariane 5 in 2010 has been postponed to allow for certain additional verifications on the launch vehicle. A new date for the mission will be ...
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Web Feature: Webb Telescope's MIRI Instrument Replica Rea... The next generation space telescope continues to come together at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., with the arrival of the "Mid Infrared Instrument."
17 Mar 2010
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Little Shrimp Makes Big Splash Beneath Antarctica A JPL-designed camera submerged 600 feet beneath the Antarctic ice sheet to image its underbelly has yielded an unexpected find -- a shrimp.
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Planck Mission Images Galactic Web of Cold Dust Tendrils of the coldest stuff in our galaxy can be seen in a new, large image from Planck, a mission surveying the whole sky to learn more about the birth ...
- 18:00 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Press Release: NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Ho... Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known.
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News First Temperate Exoplanet Sized Up Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first “normal” exoplanet that can be studied in great detail. Designated Corot-9b, the planet regularly ...
- 17:28 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... ROSA: the adventure continues The second ROSA instrument has also started its adventure following the launch of the first on board the Indian Oceansat-2 satellite on 23 September 2009. The ASI officially delivered the ...
- 17:19 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... FERMI investigates the origin of extragalactic gamma rays The FERMI satellite has made another new important finding. Data collected during the first year of observations made by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), FERMI’s "super eye", have revealed that ...
- 16:57 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... The earthquake in Chile and the polar axis: analysis from... As with any event that produces a movement of the Earth’s mass, the recent, extremely violent earthquake in Chile also caused a shift in the Earth’s axis of inertia with ...
- 14:30 UTC Science and Technol... UK scientists get first look at weather inside Jupiter's ... New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.
- 11:23 UTC Science and Technol... Planck space observatory unveils the coldest regions of o... Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through the coldest regions of our Galaxy are revealed in new images, released today (17th March), from ESA's Planck satellite.
- 10:00 UTC Jodrell Bank Centre... Planck space observatory unveils the coldest regions of o... Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through the coldest regions of our Galaxy are revealed in new images, released today (17th March), from ESA's Planck satellite.
- 10:00 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Planck:New Planck images trace cold dust and reveal large... New images from ESA&aposs Planck mission reveal details of the structure of the coldest regions in our Galaxy. Filamentary clouds predominate, connecting the largest to the smallest scales in the ...
- 09:30 UTC ESA Top News Planck sees tapestry of cold dust Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA’s Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape ...
- 04:00 UTC Planetary Society P... Press Release: Planetary Society Offers Funding to Intern... Planetary Society Offers Funding to International Asteroid-Tracking Community
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... THE “SATELLITE EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR” IS HONORED AT SATEL... Arianespace's participation at Satellite 2010 included its sponsorship of an evening reception to honor the industry's executive of the year, as named by Via Satellite magazine. Arianespace Chairman & CEO ...
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... Article: Scientific American: 6 Fun Facts about the James... 6 Fun Facts about the James Webb Space Telescope [Slide Show]
16 Mar 2010
- 22:00 UTC South African Astro... International science communicators in Cape Town More than a 150 international astronomers and science communicators, including representatives from 14 African countries, have descended on Cape Town for the period of 15 to 19 March to discuss ...
- 21:00 UTC ESO Top News Jupiter’s Spot Seen Glowing New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter’s Great Red ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE Captures a Cosmic Rose A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars.
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... See Spot on Jupiter. See Spot Glow. Scientists Get First Look at Weather Inside the Solar System's Biggest Storm.
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... See Spot on Jupiter. See Spot Glow. Scientists Get First Look at Weather Inside the Solar System's Biggest Storm.
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... WISE Captures a Cosmic Rose A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars.
- 09:45 UTC ESA Top News ‘Green’ satellite fuel designed to make space safer On the day running up to launch when a spacecraft is fuelled, ground personnel look more like astronauts than engineers, putting on spacesuit-like protective gear.
- 08:49 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Third ATV named after Edoardo Amaldi Production of the Automated Transfer Vehicles is gearing up. After the flawless flight of the first ATV, Jules Verne, the second, Johannes Kepler, is being completed for launch later this ...

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