Post Tagged with: "Infrared Astronomy"

AstroSpace Update – June 2010

AstroSpace Update
June 2010
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Runaway black hole – A college student in the Netherlands has discovered what appears to be a supermassive black hole that has been ejected from the center of its galaxy.

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AstroSpace Update – March 2010

AstroSpace Update
March 2010
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Space budget – The U.S. President has announced his budget for NASA and plan for its future, and they have a lot of changes that will affect both the manned (crewed) and robotic space missions.

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AstroSpace Update – January 2010

AstroSpace Update
January 2010
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Cassini (Saturn mission) has observed the strange hexagon at the north pole, since it recently returned to daylight for the 1st time in 15 years, [...]

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AstroSpace Update – September 2009

AstroSpace Update
September 2009
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Exoplanet – The largest known exoplanet was discovered, and it is the only one known to orbit retrograde, that is, in the direction opposite to its star’s rotation. It was discovered by the WASP system, which watches hundreds of thousands of stars with small telescopes [...]

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AstroSpace Update – June 2009

AstroSpace Update
June 2009
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Herschel is the infrared space telescope launched in May by the European Space Agency, with substantial participation by NASA. It is now on its way to the L2 Lagrangian point, a place where gravity of the Earth and Sun balance, which lies about 1 million [...]

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