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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Saturday marks the 100th day since the launching of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), officials from the U.S. space agency have confirmed. Since being launched into space from the L-1011 Stargazer aircraft on Wednesday, June 13, NuSTAR has "been busy making its first observations of black holes, super-dense dead stars and the glowing remains of exploded stars," NASA officials noted in a Friday statement....
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The discoveries are related to the distant universe, including supermassive black holes and rare galaxies. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) The briefing participants are: -- Daniel Stern, astronomer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),...
[WATCH VIDEO] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA is launching twin satellites on August 24 from Cape Canaveral, Florida that will conduct the most intimate study to date of the Van Allen Radiation Belts that envelop Earth. The two-year Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will study the extremes of space weather and should help scientists improve space weather forecasting. Space weather doesn’t seem like a big deal to most people on Earth, but,...
Johns Hopkins University professor Charles L. Bennett and members of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission that he led will receive the Gruber Foundation’s 2012 Cosmology Prize in Beijing, China tomorrow. Bennett and the 26-member WMAP team will share the $500,000 prize and are being recognized by the foundation for their transformative study of an ancient light dating back to the infant universe. So precise and accurate are the WMAP results that they form the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While some find it as the source of inspiration for wrapping gifts, Scotch tape inspired one scientist at NASA to build a special X-ray mirror. NASA scientist Maxim Markevitch and a team of X-ray optics experts at the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center are looking into the feasibility of creating a low-cost mirror out of plastic tape. "I remember looking at a roll of Scotch tape and thinking, 'was it possible to use the same...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA said on Thursday that its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has taken its first test images of a high-energy X-ray universe. The observatory is the first space telescope with the ability to focus high-energy X-rays, which are the same kind used by doctors and dentists, into images. The mission will begin with exploring hidden black holes, specifically looking for fiery cinder balls left over from star explosions....
[ Watch the Video ] Somewhere in the Milky Way, a massive old star is about to die a spectacular death. As its nuclear fuel runs out, the star begins to collapse under its own tremendous weight. Crushing pressure triggers new nuclear reactions, setting the stage for a terrifying blast. And then... nothing happens. At least that's what supercomputers have been telling astrophysicists for decades. Many of the best computer models of supernovas fail to produce an explosion. At the end of...
ARLINGTON, Va., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ATK (NYSE: ATK) supported the successful launch of an Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) air-launched Pegasus XL® rocket from the Ronald Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The Pegasus rocket carried NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) satellite, an Orbital-built spacecraft designed to study high energy X-rays in the universe. ATK provided propulsion for all three stages, many of the...
MIAMI LAKES, Fla., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuse Science Inc. (OTCQB: DROP), (www.fusescience.com) is pleased to announce the results of a study that begins to indicate the significant capabilities that reside in their proprietary technology. A third-party study, which is being released today at www.fusescience.com, reveals unique and differentiated, transdermal delivery capabilities that the Company believes has the potential to significantly improve drug delivery and minimize...
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at noon EDT (9 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, beginning its mission to unveil secrets of buried black holes and other exotic objects. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "We all eagerly await the launch of this novel X-ray observatory," said Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division Director....
