ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe. Ten years ago, scientists predicted that about ...
One of the world's most advanced observatories will continue to play a major part in space exploration as its funding is secured.
... , the 16 gamma-ray detectors came to life, and communications checked out well. The observatory's navigation system is following directions from the ground to turn toward interesting objects.
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Northumberland's glorious new timber observatory fits beautifully into its forest surroundings. Jonathan Glancey took along his telescope
Flying 423 miles above Earth, the Ikonos satellite offers a space-age peek at ten ancient observatories built by cultures from long ago.
NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its ... NASA's now-defunct Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, took years of observations to produce.
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula.
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope and W.M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the Hawaiian chain, have obtained the first-ever direct images identifying a multi ...
Scientists in western Argentina were set to inaugurate on Friday the world's largest astronomical observatory, hoping to unlock the mysteries of high energy cosmic rays that bombard the Earth.
... System (MARS)—the first deep-sea ocean observatory offshore of the continental United States. Six years ... $13.5 million dollars in the making, the MARS Observatory went "live" on Monday, November 10, ...
... mysterious irregularity of the Earth's magnetic field known as the South Atlantic Anomaly. The observatory is a partnership between DMI, the Danish Meteorological Institute, and DTU Space, the Danish ...
... from the University of Alaska Fairbanks who will focus on the advances of the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the 2008 eruptions of Cleveland, Okmok and Kasatochi volcanoes. Other talks and poster ...
... . Now, they soon expect to get some answers to these and other compelling carbon questions, thanks to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a new Earth-orbiting NASA satellite set to launch in early 2009.
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory will help scientists pinpoint what happens to unaccounted carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.
The Montegancedo Astronomical Observatory, based at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing and part of the Madrid Region's ASTROCAM network, was officially opened on 23 January ...
