extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com
Extrasolar Planets: A Planet-Like Companion Growing up in the Fast Lane
http://extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com/2010/04/planet-like-companion-growing-up-in.html
Current Planet Count: 442 Stars with Planets: 363 Hot Jupiter's: 89 Gas Giants: 271 Earth Like Planets: 0. Tuesday, April 6, 2010. A Planet-Like Companion Growing up in the Fast Lane. Tuesday, April 06, 2010. Kamen Todorov of Pennsylvania State University and co-investigators made the discovery using the keen visible-light eyesight of the Hubble Space Telescope combined with high-resolution adaptive optics infrared images from the Gemini Observatory. The images of the pair were obtained as part of a ...
extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com
Extrasolar Planets: New Method of Classifying Planets Proposed
http://extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-method-of-classifying-planets.html
Current Planet Count: 442 Stars with Planets: 363 Hot Jupiter's: 89 Gas Giants: 271 Earth Like Planets: 0. Monday, April 12, 2010. New Method of Classifying Planets Proposed. Monday, April 12, 2010. Image comment: Artist's drawing depicting the dwarf planet Haumea, with its tow moons. The body has a prolonged shape that puzzles astronomers. Image credits: A. Feild (Space Telescope Science Institute). Source;- http:/ www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25034/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com
Extrasolar Planets: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Discovers Extrasolar Planet Lacking Methane
http://extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com/2010/04/nasas-spitzer-space-telescope-discovers.html
Current Planet Count: 442 Stars with Planets: 363 Hot Jupiter's: 89 Gas Giants: 271 Earth Like Planets: 0. Wednesday, April 21, 2010. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Discovers Extrasolar Planet Lacking Methane. Wednesday, April 21, 2010. PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet - it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system. In this case, we expected to find methane not because of the presence of life, but be...
extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com
Extrasolar Planets: New Technique Can Spot Smaller Exoplanets
http://extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-technique-can-spot-smaller.html
Current Planet Count: 442 Stars with Planets: 363 Hot Jupiter's: 89 Gas Giants: 271 Earth Like Planets: 0. Friday, April 16, 2010. New Technique Can Spot Smaller Exoplanets. Friday, April 16, 2010. Image comment: This image of the planets in the HR8799 system were found using vortex coronagraph. Image credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Palomar Observatory. Details of how the device works can be found in the April 15 issue of the esteemed scientific publication Nature. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com
Extrasolar Planets: Is densest Kuiper belt object a wayward asteroid?
http://extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-densest-kuiper-belt-object-wayward.html
Current Planet Count: 442 Stars with Planets: 363 Hot Jupiter's: 89 Gas Giants: 271 Earth Like Planets: 0. Saturday, April 10, 2010. Is densest Kuiper belt object a wayward asteroid? Saturday, April 10, 2010. Quaoar, a large object in the outer solar system, is mostly made of rock, unlike its icy neighbours (Illustration: NASA/G. Bacon/STScI). Quaoar's high density suggests it is made almost entirely of rock, unlike its neighbours, which are a mixture of ice and rock, the researchers conclude. They s...
extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com
Extrasolar Planets: Happy 50th Birthday SETI
http://extrasolar-planetz.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-50th-birthday-seti.html
Current Planet Count: 442 Stars with Planets: 363 Hot Jupiter's: 89 Gas Giants: 271 Earth Like Planets: 0. Saturday, April 10, 2010. Happy 50th Birthday SETI. Saturday, April 10, 2010. SETI's Allen Telescope Array. Also in 1977, the SETI-operated Big Ear radio telescope received the historic "Wow! So happy 50th, SETI! Here's to another 50 years as productive as the last, and maybe even finding some little green men in your next half century of groundbreaking research. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
jwst-cast.blogspot.com
James Webb Space Telescope Cast: Viewpoint: The Two Pillars of NASA
http://jwst-cast.blogspot.com/2010/04/viewpoint-two-pillars-of-nasa.html
James Webb Space Telescope Cast. Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Viewpoint: The Two Pillars of NASA. The most prominent recent example was the return of seven astronauts to the Hubble Space Telescope to install new scientific instruments and repair failed components, making it more powerful than at any time since its launch nearly two decades ago. This partnership is core to NASA’s mission and is an essential element to achieving the next great leaps in space science. Marc Postman is an astronomer at the Space T...
jwst-cast.blogspot.com
James Webb Space Telescope Cast: Students Bring Fresh Perspective and New Technology to Webb Telescope
http://jwst-cast.blogspot.com/2010/04/students-bring-fresh-perspective-and.html
James Webb Space Telescope Cast. Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Students Bring Fresh Perspective and New Technology to Webb Telescope. Engineers at Ball Aerospace test the Wavefront Sensing and Control testbed to ensure that the 18 primary mirror segments and one secondary mirror on JWST work as one. The test is performed on a 1/6 scale model of the JWST mirrors. Credit: NASA/Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace. Past experience bears out Feinberg's observations. Six years ago, Matthew Bolcar was a graduate student ...
jwst-cast.blogspot.com
James Webb Space Telescope Cast: Picture of the Day #6
http://jwst-cast.blogspot.com/2010/04/picture-of-day-6.html
James Webb Space Telescope Cast. Saturday, April 10, 2010. Picture of the Day #6. Caption: Goddard technicians working with the ISIM Test Structure or ITS. ISIM will sit atop this during space environmental testing. Credit: NASA, Chris Gunn. Over 1,000 people in more than 17 countries are involved in developing the state-of-the-art James Webb Space telescope. The Search for Extraterrestrials Narrows. Herschel Space Observatory Cast. Planck Casts New Light on Stellar Formation. 25/04/10 - 02/05/10 (1).
jwst-cast.blogspot.com
James Webb Space Telescope Cast: A View of the JWST NIRSpec Instrument
http://jwst-cast.blogspot.com/2010/03/view-of-jwst-nirspec-instrument.html
James Webb Space Telescope Cast. Wednesday, March 31, 2010. A View of the JWST NIRSpec Instrument. Over 1,000 people in more than 17 countries are involved in developing the state-of-the-art James Webb Space telescope. The Search for Extraterrestrials Narrows. Herschel Space Observatory Cast. Planck Casts New Light on Stellar Formation. 25/04/10 - 02/05/10 (1). 18/04/10 - 25/04/10 (1). 04/04/10 - 11/04/10 (3). 28/03/10 - 04/04/10 (4). 21/03/10 - 28/03/10 (1). 14/03/10 - 21/03/10 (2).
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT