(Right) 1.5 million year-old footprint, (Left) Color-contoured 3D laser scan image of the footprint photo on the right. Credit: Brian Richmond, George Washington University. The anthropology world is all abuzz with a discovery in Africa that’s knocking scientists off their feet. It’s the finding of 1.5 million-year-old fossilized human footprints in Kenya at Rutgers University’s [...]
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This image of Comet Lulin taken Jan. 28 merges data acquired by Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (blue and green) and X-Ray Telescope (red). At the time of the observation, the comet was 99.5 million miles from Earth and 115.3 million miles from the sun. Credit: NASA/Swift/Univ. of Leicester/Bodewits et al. GREENBELT, Md. – While waiting for [...]
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Artist concept of proposed missions to the Jupiter system (left) and the Saturn system (right). Image credit: NASA/JPL At a meeting in Washington last week, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency officials decided to continue pursuing studies of a mission to Jupiter and its four largest moons, and to plan for another [...]
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The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) completed ‘mate match’ tests at Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facilities in Redondo Beach, Calif. The test are designed to test the fit of the adapter rings used to connect LCROSS with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on one end and the Centaur rocket on the other. The spacecraft and [...]
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Caption: This image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer is one of the sharpest color images ever made. It shows the Mira-like star T Leporis in great detail. The central disc is the surface of the star, which is surrounded by a spherical shell of molecular material expelled from the star. In order to appreciate [...]
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CHICAGO – How did the universe begin? How will it end? Do other universes exist? Everyone at some time or another ponders these questions. Generations of researchers have brought us to our current point of understanding, but our picture of the universe has changed more in the past decade or so than it did in [...]
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Caption -The South Pole Telescope takes advantage of the clear, dry skies at the National Science Foundation’s South Pole Station to study the cosmic background radiation, the afterglow of the big bang. The SPT measures eight meters (26.4 feet) in diameter. Credit: Photo by Jeff McMahon South Pole Telescope team to search for gravity waves. [...]
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Caption -Orbital Debris- this is a LEO computer generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent the current location of each item. The orbital debris dots are scaled according to the image size [...]
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