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http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1812/: Ancient Galaxy Megamergers
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25 Apr 2018, 17:00 UTC
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-could-potentially-detect-the-first-stars-and-black: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Could Potentially Detect the First Stars and Black Holes
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25 Apr 2018, 13:43 UTC The first stars in the universe blazed to life about 200 to 400 million years after the big bang. Observing those very first individual stars across such vast distances of space normally would be a feat beyond any space science telescope. However, new theoretical work suggests that under the right circumstances, and with a little luck, NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will be able to capture light from single stars within that first generation of stars.
24811e7776d4e4ee0474277a88203dd8: Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond
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25 Apr 2018, 10:00 UTC ESA’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy. A multitude of discoveries are on the horizon after this much awaited release, which is based on 22 months of charting the sky. The new data includes positions, distance indicators and motions of more than one billion stars, along with high-precision measurements of asteroids within our Solar System and stars beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-079&rn=news.xml&rst=7104: What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs
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24 Apr 2018, 18:56 UTC Even after decades of observations and a visit by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, Uranus held on to one critical secret -- the composition of its clouds. Now, one of the key components of the planet's clouds has finally been verified.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/2020-decadal-survey-missions-at-a-glance: 2020 Decadal Survey Missions: At a Glance
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24 Apr 2018, 14:38 UTC Any telescope that reaches the launch pad in the 2030s likely will look much different than the concepts four teams are currently studying to inform the 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics, but the studies do offer a roadmap. Here’s a brief overview of each:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-077&rn=news.xml&rst=7101: NASA Engineers Dream Big with Small Spacecraft
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19 Apr 2018, 19:04 UTC Many of NASA's most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo -- all large machines that could measure up to a school bus. But in the past two decades, mini-satellites called CubeSats have made space accessible to a new generation. These briefcase-sized boxes are more focused in their abilities and have a fraction of the mass -- and cost -- of some past titans of space.
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1808/: Photo Release: Hubble celebrates 28th anniversary with a trip through the Lagoon Nebula
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19 Apr 2018, 14:00 UTC This colourful cloud of glowing interstellar gas is just a tiny part of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar nursery. This nebula is a region full of intense activity, with fierce winds from hot stars, swirling chimneys of gas, and energetic star formation all embedded within a hazy labyrinth of gas and dust. Hubble used both its optical and infrared instruments to study the nebula, which was observed to celebrate Hubble’s 28th anniversary.
News.1.26810: Hyperspectral instrument DESIS en route to International Space Station in 2018
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19 Apr 2018, 10:57 UTC The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the United States corporation Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) are announcing the completion of the development and manufacturing process of the DESIS hardware. Operating the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) on the International Space Station (ISS) makes DLR the first user of the revolutionary multiplatform system MUSES (Multi User System for Earth Sensing) that was installed on board the ISS in 2017. The launch of the DESIS joint venture is scheduled for summer 2018 from Cape Canaveral and will be lifted into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-planet-hunter-on-its-way-to-orbit: NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit
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19 Apr 2018, 00:09 UTC NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life.
2059 at http://www.kavlifoundation.org: To Seek Out New Life: How the TESS Mission Will Accelerate the Hunt for Livable Alien Worlds
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18 Apr 2018, 23:00 UTC

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