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By rss@youtube.com (namlhots) Tom goes to nerd out in Pasadena, CA. Links of Interest: Mt Wilson Observatory http://www.mtwilson.edu/ and the Jet Propulsion Lab Mars Rover Page: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html and many thanks to Dave, Lynn, and Scott for a fantastic slumber party. A special nerdfighte...

Exquisitely detailed drawings of the Hale Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory and a JPL model of the Mars Pathfinder rover Soujourner are among the works on display in "Tools," a new exhibit at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design showcasing a diverse range of objects from th...

Scientists have devised a new use for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO): probing the quantum behavior of matter at macroscopic scales. LIGO, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and was designed and is operated by Caltech and MIT, was desig...

 VA Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S. Park and J. Lee); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech Penn State astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new image of a ghostly exploded star with an unusual shape in a galaxy near the Milky Way. ...

Other collaborators include Richard Arendt of nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; AC Adwin Boogert of nasa's Herschel Science Center, Caltech in Pasadena; Mathias Schultheis of the Besancon Observatory in France; Susan Stolovy of nasa's ...

press release) Other collaborators include Richard Arendt of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; AC Adwin Boogert of NASA's Herschel Science Center, Caltech in Pasadena; Mathias Schultheis of the Besancon Observatory in France; Susan Stolovy of NASA's ...

 TX JPL is a partner with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the Palomar Observatory. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov .

 CA JPL is a partner with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the Palomar Observatory. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov . ...

 UK Richard Massey is an astronomy fellow at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and is a visiting associate in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Gisa Weszkalnys, is an anthropologist at the University of Oxford who studies the ...

 HI The California Institute of Technology will begin decommissioning the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in 2016. The university plans to return the site to its natural state by 2018. The 10-meter radio telescope will be replaced by a 25-meter telescope ...

The Caltech/MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) seeks two highly motivated, skilled and experienced mechanical engineers to join its Livingston, Louisiana observatory team. ...

By la_sloane is obsessed with all things STAR today in anxious anticipation of an upcoming visit to the newly reopened Griffiting Observatory and came across this interesting piece of news. The NASA Cassini Spacecraft this past weekend captured images of a massive hurricane on the planet Saturn. Thi...

 CA - Apr 3, 2006 Wilson Observatory and Caltech being nearby, it was natural for the Star ... sum of which may possibly give the experimenters a method of forecasting earthquakes.".