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01/05/2009
ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox (Slashdot)
phyr writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1&2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party (Radarsat2, TerraSarX, Alos Palsar, JERS) SAR level 1 data and higher. ESA has chosen to distribute the software as fully open source to allow ...
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01/08/2009
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars (SpaceRef)
Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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01/08/2009
Hubble Finds Stars that Go Ballistic (SpaceRef)
Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas.
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01/07/2009
Hubble Finds Stars that Go 'Ballistic' (Newswise)
Resembling comets streaking across the sky, these four speedy stars are plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas and creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas. The stars in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images are among 14 young runaway stars spotted by the Advanced Camera for Surveys between October 2005 and July 2006. The images will be presented ...
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01/06/2009
Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight (Newswise)
This pair of NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures shows the appearance of a mysterious burst of light that was detected on February 21, 2006, brightened over 100 days, and then faded into oblivion after another 100 days. The source of the outburst remains unidentified. The event was detected serendipitously in a Hubble search for supernovae in a distant cluster of galaxies. The light-signature ...
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01/05/2009
Hubble Views Galactic Core in Unprecedented New Detail (Newswise)
This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core.
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01/05/2009
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars (Newswise)
Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on studies of nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble found only two brown dwarfs as companions to normal stars. This means the so-called "brown dwarf desert" (the absence of brown dwarfs around solar-type stars) extends to the smallest stars in the universe. ...
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01/02/2009
GLONASS Grows Back (Strategy Page)
January 2, 2009: On December 26th, Russia put three more GLONASS satellites in orbit. These, in addition to those put up a few months ago, mean there are 20 GLONASS birds up there. Russia plans to have the system operational by 2010.
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01/01/2009
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 31 December 2008 (SpaceRef)
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.
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01/01/2009
Ireland joins space race in 1978 (Irish Examiner)
IRELAND joined the space race in 1978 with a government decision to provide funds for Europe’s Ariane rocket programme.
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