Hubble Team Wins the 2020 Michael Collins Trophy
The operations people behind the Space Telescope’s 30 years of breakthrough science are honored by the National Air and Space Museum.
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Beyond the Brim, Sombrero Galaxy’s Halo Suggests a Turbulent Past
Hubble Space Telescope observations suggest that the broad “brim” of the Sombrero galaxy may conceal a turbulent past. Clues to a rough-and tumble history lie in the galaxy’s extended halo.
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UAH’s Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research has central role in 2024 IMAP mission
The Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will be central to the modeling and data crunching that follow the scheduled launch of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission in 2024.
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Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade
Global Temperature Report: January 2020
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UAH prepares for massive data stream following coming launch of ESA Solar Orbiter
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will have a major role in exploring an expected massive data stream that will follow the launch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter, a mission that will fly over the sun’s poles and on which UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank is a co-primary investigator.
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Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Details of Galaxy Clusters
A new study published late last year in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society explored the molecular gas within and surrounding the intracluster medium, which fills the space between galaxies in a galaxy cluster.
Read moreASU-led NASA Psyche mission offers free online course on team building from leadership experts
The new Psyche Mission Innovation Toolkit online course is designed to help learners understand the unique challenges of a diverse team and provides tools to help address these challenges and take actions to be more successful in working with others. Image by ASU Continuing and Professional Education
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Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe’s Expansion
Astronomers using Hubble have made the most precise measurement yet of the universe’s expansion rate using the gravitational lensing method, which is independent
from the usual cosmic distance ladder.
Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life
Hubble observations suggest that orange stars, slightly cooler than our Sun, are better hangouts for life. There are more of them in our galaxy, they live much longer than our Sun, and unleash less deadly radiation than red dwarf stars.
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Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
Using Hubble and a new observing technique, astronomers have uncovered the smallest clumps of dark matter ever detected. Dark matter is an invisible
substance that makes up most of the universe’s mass and forms the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built.
WHOI underwater robot takes first known automated sample from ocean
A hybrid remotely operated vehicle developed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) took the first known automated sample performed by a robotic arm in the ocean. Last month, an international team of researchers used one of WHOI’s underwater robots, Nereid Under Ice (NUI), to explore Kolumbo volcano, an active submarine volcano off Greece’s famed Santorini island.
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