NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communications - WebWire

10 Mar 2010 at 7:40am  ... space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. In ... imaging target" and "take pictures" of the Crab Nebula as ...
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Final touches on ?crucial? mirror in telescope - Mohave Daily News

8 Mar 2010 at 10:23pm  FLAGSTAFF (AP) ? Engineers are putting the final touches on an ultra-thin mirror that they say will be a crucial part of a new telescope near Flagstaff. The $44 million Discovery Channel Telescope is expected to be the fifth-largest telescope in ...
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NASA to repair deep space antenna in California - San Francisco Chronicle

8 Mar 2010 at 10:41am  Work begins this week to replace a steel donut-shaped bearing on the aging 230-foot-wide dish at the NASA Deep ... deputy project manager Wayne Sible. Missions that normally depend on Goldstone, such as the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Saturn ...
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The Cosmic Bat

3 Mar 2010 at 3:00am  The delicate nebula NGC 1788, located in a dark and often neglected corner of the Orion constellation, is revealed in a new and finely nuanced image that ESO is releasing today. Although this ghostly cloud is rather isolated from Orion?s bright stars, the latter?s powerful winds and light have had a strong impact on the nebula, forging its shape and making it home to a multitude of infant suns.
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Light, Wind and Fire

24 Feb 2010 at 3:00am  Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana (the Toucan). The light, wind and heat given off by massive stars have dispersed the glowing gas within and around this star cluster, forming a surrounding wispy nebular structure that looks like a cobweb. NGC 346, like other beautiful astronomical scenes, is a work in progress, and changes as the aeons pass. As yet more stars form from loose matter in the area, they will ignite, scattering leftover dust and gas, carving out great ripples and altering the face of this lustrous object.
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February 2010 Extra

19 Feb 2010 at 10:00am  In this show we find out about space weather from Jim Wild [00:43-09:01] and talk to Marek Kukula about all things Solar [09:01-14:19], Tim answers your astronomical questions [17:21-37:31], and we round-up your feedback.


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No Place to Hide: Missing Primitive Stars Outside Milky Way Uncovered

17 Feb 2010 at 3:00am  After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO?s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an important astrophysical puzzle concerning the oldest stars in our galactic neighbourhood ? which is crucial for our understanding of the earliest stars in the Universe.
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