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Year 2008

 

Rate Video: Cassini fly-byVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Aug 12

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By rss@youtube.com (petebkr) Animation of Cassini's approach and flyby of Enceladus Mar.12, 2008 with a closest approach distance near the equator of about 50 kilometers. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Author: petebkr Keywords: NASA Space Cassini Saturn Enceladus Astronomy Added: August 12, 2008

Rate Video: Astronomy Software VRMars-Spirit - The Red Planet Mars 3D ...

Original at livevideo external link    Tue, Jan 29

By rss@LiveVideo.com (vrmars) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/MSSS/USGS/OSU/Honeybee Robotics/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - More information at www.vrpresents.com and in this astronomical software. Author: vrmars ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Video: Spectra of an exolanetVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Feb 25

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By rss@youtube.com (Pyxmalion) Spectra of a Jupiter-like by Spitzer space telescope. Video released by NASA/JPL-Caltech. Author: Pyxmalion Keywords: exoplanet extrasolar planet jupiter sun atmosphere spectra spitzer telescope science space solar system astronomy Added: February 25, 2007

Stories

June of 2009

 

Rate New Tidal Debris Discovered From Colliding Galaxies - Science Daily

Original at Science Daily external link    Thu, Jun 11

New Tidal Debris Discovered From Colliding Galaxies press release) before they merge, thus turning back the clock on each merging system," says Dr. Scoville, the Francis L. Moseley professor of astronomy at Caltech. ... and more »

Rate Stars Come Out at Astronomy...

Original at Science Now external link    Wed, Jun 10

 DC Credit: (top left) University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy; (top right): A. Dupree (CfA)/NASA/ESA; (bottom) NASA/JPL-Caltech/SV Ramírez (NExSci/Caltech)/SST/IRAC/MIPS/IRS By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee PASADENA, CALIFORNIA--Stars have been the, well, ...

Rate Cosmic Cloud Poised to Birth Massive Star

Original at LiveScience.com external link    Tue, Jun 9

 NY Credit: J. Swift, NASA/ JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/Joint Astronomy Center. PASADENA, CALIF. — A massive, tranquil object found lurking in a dark cloud in our galaxy could be about to transform into ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Celebrating a landmark experiment

Original at BBC News external link    Thu, May 21

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 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 ...

Rate Four from Caltech Invited to Key Conference

Original at Caltech Today external link    Tue, May 5

It isn't often that four professors from a single institution are invited to one conference, let alone four from a single division. So Caltech may have achieved some kind of special status with oddsmakers by having four faculty from Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy invited to lecture...

Rate Kepler's Year

Original at Seed Magazine external link    Tue, Dec 30

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The Pleiades star cluster, captured here in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Click on image to view slideshow. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech). IYA2009 In the UK, the Society for Popular Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Faci...

Year 2007

 

Rate INTO THE COSMOS

Original at Pasadena Star-News external link    Wed, Jan 31

PASADENA - Black holes, quasars and dark matter will soon be explored under one roof as Caltech officials broke ground Wednesday on a new astronomy and astrophysics center.

Year 2005

 

Rate CALTECH: New Study of Supernovae May Absolve Einstein of His Self ...

Original at Webbolt Business News (subscription) external link    Wed, Nov 23

 Canada - Nov 23, 2005 SUMMARY: Reporting in an upcoming issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, an international team using a variety of instruments, including the 10-meter ...

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