With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.
With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.
The Blueshift podcast series, kicking off with an interview of Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Mather, offers listeners a backstage pass to Goddard's Astrophysics Science Division's groundbreaking discove...
The Herschel Space Observatory has snapped its first picture since blasting into space on May 14, 2009.
The "coming of age" of galaxies and black holes has been pinpointed thanks to new data from Chandra.
NASA's Swift satellite detected a rare interstellar object known as a soft gamma repeater, or SGR. The object is only the fifth confirmed SGR.
The Herschel observatory has flipped its lid -- the cover protecting the telescope's instruments was successfully removed on June 14, 2009, at 2:54 a.m. Pacific Time.
A JPL-developed and -built cooler on the Planck spacecraft has chilled the mission's low-frequency instrument down to its operating temperature of a frosty 20 Kelvin (minus 424 degrees Fahrenheit).
Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy.
07.02.09 - With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.
06.24.09 - NASA has selected four organizations to share approximately $18 million over five years for education and public outreach activities to help inspire the next generation of science leaders and explorers.
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