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... SPACE TELESCOPE HST 's power, which enabled it to capture images of the Eagle Nebula, Ring Nebula, Lagoon Nebula, Egg Nebula, and Galaxy NGC 1316. NASA held a series of events to celebrate the ...

... , or fullerenes. The Cami team unexpectedly found the carbon balls in a planetary nebula named Tc 1. Planetary nebulas are the remains of stars, like the sun, that shed their outer layers ... carbon. The astronomers used Spitzer's spectroscopy instrument to analyze infrared light from the planetary nebula and see the spectral signatures of the buckyballs. These molecules are approximately room temperature; the ...

... only luminous disc. The whole heavens are studded over with similar patches of light or nebulae which, on closer inspection, are found to be firmaments, consisting, like the Galaxy, of innumerable ... the latest technology and science. Curtis had researched the frequency of novae in the Andromeda “nebula” and he concluded that there were far too many exploding stars for such a small ... had to conclude that this meant the Andromeda “nebula” was in fact another galaxy. If that were the case then the other spiral nebulae could be anything from 500,000 to 100 ...

... 73-221)'' The 1973 Nobel Prizes in physics and in chemistry were awarded in Stockholm. The $122 000 physics award went to two Americans and one Briton for step-by-step proof ... Electric Co. scientist; and Brian Josephson of Cambridge Univ. in England. The $120 000 chemistry award went to Ernst O. Fischer, Munich Technical Univ. scientist, and Geoffrey Wilkinson of London's ... UFO upsurge and who joked with his family about little green men from some distant nebula hanging around. The next thing he knew, one of the UFOS was hovering . . . above the ...

... for the Air Force B-1 strategic bomber program. On 18 May, Rockwell awarded a $2.4-million contract to Hamilton-Standard Division, United Technologies Corp., for air conditioning ... firm had supplied similar equipment for 3 earlier B-1 s. On 24 May, Rockwell awarded a $1.8-million subcontract to Martin Marietta Aerospace for tail assemblies, consisting of 2 ... in the history of astronomy that a telescope had obtained a spectrogram of a planetary nebula-a huge gaseous formation with a high-temperature star at the center-and had obtained ...

... so close that its star can be seen with binoculars near the famous Dumbbell Nebula. This makes HD 189733b an ideal target for studying the processes that drive atmospheric ... Wellesley College in Massachusetts. ''MEDIA ADVISORY: 12-220 NASA AWARDS FIVE UNIVERSITIES FUNDING FOR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded five one-year U.S. National Laboratory education cooperative ...

... archive covering HST operations since its launch. The three-year contract for this work was awarded to a group including the author and archivist John D. Ruley of Modesto, California, in ... dramatic views of the cosmos, notably the famous “pillars of creation” image of the Eagle Nebula or M16, released in 1995, and the Hubble Deep Field image taken late that year ... ). note 2 Foresight Science & Technology, Inc., “NASA Awards Hubble History Contract,” Press Release. http://www.prlog.org/12423338-nasa-awards-hubble-history-contract.html Accessed, November 16, 2015. note ...

... a double star system, obtained new data on the size and shape of the Crab Nebula, discovered a galaxy six times larger than any previously known in the universe, and made ... shuttle runway at Kennedy Space Center began in April and throughout the year contracts were awarded for additional space shuttle facilities. The European Space Research Organization selected VFW-Fokker/ ERNO ...

... Alvin R. Luedecke, JPL; Arthur Rudolph, MSFC; and Hubert Ray Stanley, Wallops Station. Group Achievement Award went to Apollo 7 Flight Operations Team, Instrumentation Ships Team, Mariner Occultation Experiment Team, ... Advance­ment of Science Writing at Evanston, Ill., that pulsar discovered Nov. 14 near Crab Nebula was almost certainly a neutron star. It was second discovery during week see Nov. 6 ...

... U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The experiment showed that a large region of the Crab Nebula produced x-ray radiation. Data obtained by Friedman with an Aerobee rocket launched July 5 ... Sands Missile Range "established how the flux of x-ray radiation coming from the Crab Nebula changed when the moon passed between it and the rocket," Shklovsky said. Some scientists had ... star." But observations from the rocket as the moon shut off direct view of the Nebula showed that a larger area was involved. ''(AP, Balt. Sun, 12/29/64; Sullivan, NYT ...

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