NASA to hunt gamma bursts
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NASA is preparing to launch a nimble spacecraft to detect the most violent explosions in the cosmos and study their afterglow for hints of their origin.
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A Nasa spacecraft set for launch on Thursday will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla - For the first time in more than four years, a NASA space shuttle Discovery is poised to light up the night sky in an evening launch bound for the International Space Station (ISS). But weather may intervene.
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Nasa launches the Swift observatory to study gamma-ray bursts - the biggest explosions since the Big Bang.
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NASA astronomers last month detected two X-ray blasts and an almost-gamma ray burst that could be signs of imminent supernovae. The X-ray flashes came on 12 and 16 September, followed on 24 September by something
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IndigoSkies writes &quot;NASA today successfully launched the Swift Observatory into Earth orbit for an intense two year study of GRBs (gamma-ray bursts) to determine whether there is a connection between them and the evolution of black holes.
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A new NASA space telescope will give scientists a peek at some of the most energetic objects and events in the universe. The new Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope to be launched next spring doesn't see visible light like our eyes, but gamma rays, the most energetic photons in the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Already a leading launch area for scientific balloons in northern Europe, operations at Sweden's Esrange launch facility will expand next year with NASA's decision to use it for launches of its largest scientific balloons, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) launched a space observatory named Swift last week to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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NASA launched a $250 million quick-response satellite today to study enigmatic gamma ray flashes from brief-but-titanic deep space explosions that may be the &quot;death
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A proposed  NASA mission to study a mysterious force thought to be accelerating the  expansion of the universe should be the first in the agency&#39;s &quot;Beyond  Einstein&quot; program to be developed and launched, the National Research  Council recommended today.
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Five NASA probes blasted into space Saturday, kicking off a two-year mission to hunt down the source of some of Earth's most colorful auroral displays.
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The US space agency Nasa announces details of a mission to give the Hubble space telescope a major boost.
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The US space agency NASA has launched its first five-satellite mission on board a single rocket aiming to unlock the age-old mysteries of the aurora borealis.
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Over the past week, several independent efforts were made to search for pre-discovery observations of 2004 MN4. These efforts proved successful today when Jeff Larsen and Anne Descour of the Spacewatch Observatory
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A Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the Northern Lights blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Billions of years after a galactic &quot;baby boom,&quot; a NASA spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in the Earth&#39;s part of the universe.