US Spacecraft to Probe Origin of Gamma Rays Far Beyond Our Galaxy
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The US space agency, NASA, launched a satellite Saturday that scientists hope will help them locate the sources of mysterious gamma ray explosions, the
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A NASA-led team is studying the construction of a railway in space for a pair of telescopes that will provide views of planet, star, and galaxy formation in unprecedented detail. The proposed Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT) mission will also examine the atmospheric chemistry of giant planets around other stars.
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The US space agency NASA on Thursday launched the space probe Dawn on an eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system and how it was born.
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A device from Argonne National Lab takes a fresh approach to generating t-rays.
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The U.S. space agency is planning a mission to better understand a mysterious form of energy in the cosmos and an ambitious unmanned journey to the outer solar system, NASA officials said.
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NASA is inviting members of the general public from around the world to suggest a new name for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as GLAST, before it launches in mid-2008.
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SALT LAKE CITY - The first solar-wind samples recovered from the crashed Genesis space capsule have been sent to researchers in California.
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Gamma rays would be lethal to humans if it were not for the Earth&#39;s atmospheric shield. The rays emanate from astonishingly powerful phenomena, such as supernovae - massive stars that, when all their fuel has expired, perish in a violent explosion.
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Scientists give details of a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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The Dawn probe may be the feeblest spacecraft NASA's ever built, but it may usher in a new age of ultraefficient space travel
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This is the second article in a series of four articles each with a separate explanation of different quantum phenomena. Each article is a piece of a mosaic, so every one is needed to understand the final explanation of the quantum astronomy experiment we propose, possibly using the Allen Array Telescope and the narrow-band radio-wave detectors being build by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.
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The US spacecraft Dawn, due to launch on Sunday, will take a close look at two massive asteroids to try to penetrate the mystery of our solar system&#39;s origins 4.6 billion years ago.
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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The cord will be cut today, and a billion-dollar baby will be on its own. Space scientists at the University of Arizona and around the world will find out tomorrow if the 9-foot-wide, saucer-shaped Huygens probe has been properly launched for its Jan.
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Data from the far reaches of outer space have been streaming into Dan Reisenfeld&#39;s computer at the University of Montana since late Wednesday.
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Summary - (Nov 4, 2004) European astronomers have produced the first image of an object using high energy gamma rays - the most penetrating form of radiation known.
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[World News]: Washington, Nov 4 : An international team of astronomers has suceeded solving the 100 yearl old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.