News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
The process appeared to be going smoothly at first—Hubble was successfully reconfigured and its instruments were slowly waking up from a "safe mode" shutdown. But yesterday afternoon a pair of seemingly unrelated issues cropped up during routine...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
Star spots (simulated, right) can indicate a star’s age because they are caused by magnetic activity that ebbs as a star gets older. On a 10,500-ft.-high mountaintop above the New Mexico desert, construction has begun on a $45 million array of...
News Source: The Examiner
| about 1 year ago
The world's latest space tourist, a computer game wizard and astronaut's son who paid $30 million to fly to the space station, said Monday from orbit that he's gotten his money's worth. With his 12-day adventure winding down this week, Richard...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
The Ibex probe, short for Interstellar Boundary Explorer, will study a chaotic region in space where the solar wind from the sun clashes with cold gases from interstellar space. The solar wind, a stream of charged particles spewing from the sun at 1...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
More than 30 years ago, the two Voyagers were sent on a mission that was originally planned to only take 5-years, but has taken the Voyager 1 spacecraft into the heliosheath (the area beyond the termination shock, see our slideshow for illustrations),...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
Atlantis from its launch pad back to the hangar Monday after its mission to the Hubble space telescope was officially delayed until next year. The launch of Atlantis, which has already been delayed several times due to shuttle repairs, was scheduled...