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Construction of the 18 mirror segment blanks of the James Webb Space Telescope has been completed by Axsys Technologies Inc., Alabama, USA. They have been shipped for grinding and polishing, after which they will be assembled to form the 6.6m-diameter primary mirror of JWST.
Published: 8 February 2007
A problem with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope is under investigation and currently limits science operations to the observatory's remaining instruments.
Published: 30 January 2007
With Hubble data on the rich populations of infant stars in star forming region N90 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, astronomers are examining star forming processes in an environment that is very different from that in our own Milky Way.
Published: 9 January 2007
An important milestone has been reached with the assembly of a three-dimensional map of the dark matter distribution in the Universe, based on analysis of the Hubble COSMOS survey.
Published: 8 January 2007
High-resolution observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed what was previously thought of as a single massive star to actually be a multiple system of massive stars.
Published: 12 December 2006
A milestone was reached Monday 20 November, with the successful integration of the focal plane units of the two Planck instruments HFI and LFI into a single assembly at Alcatel Alenia Space in France.
Published: 22 November 2006
Published: 2 November 2006
Hubble has returned to the intriguing V838 Monocerotis many times since its initial outburst in 2002 to follow the evolution of its light echo. Two new images provide the most astonishing views of V838 to date.
Published: 26 October 2006
A dedicated study based on Hubble data of the proper motions of stars in one of our Galaxy's densest globular cluster - 47 Tucanae - has provided the best evidence yet, of the process of stellar sorting by mass inside a globular cluster.
Published: 25 October 2006
Published: 23 October 2006
Hubble's new sharpest view of the Antennae galaxies reveals the merger induced star formation in great detail and provides the required resolution to determine the fate of the young super star clusters in this merger galaxy
Published: 17 October 2006
Published: 16 October 2006
New deep Hubble-ACS observations of a distant protocluster of galaxies reveals in sharp detail the infall of satellite galaxies toward the central powerful radio galaxy, a forming massive cD galaxy.
Published: 12 October 2006
The ESA director of science David Southwood invites proposers from all over the world to participate in this Announcement of Opportunity for Key Programmes of the AO-5 Cycle of Observations with INTEGRAL.
Published: 10 October 2006
By combining numerous Hubble observations taken over a 3-year period with ground based observations, a team of astronomers led by G. Fritz Benedict and Barbara E. McArthur has deduced the inclination of the nearest exoplanet's orbit around its parent star Epsilon Eridani and found it to be aligned with the star's debris disk.
Published: 10 October 2006
In a dedicated survey, the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in our Galaxy, and among these a new class of planets is discovered with an extremely short orbital period.
Published: 4 October 2006
Published: 2 October 2006
A recent article in the Astrophysical Journal by Renaud et al. presents the results of detailed spectroimaging of the young Cassiopeia A supernova remnant with INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI that constrain the 44Ti signature and production models.
Published: 29 September 2006
Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Published: 22 September 2006
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