News tagged with lyman alpha
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP reveals lunar surface features
New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness. LAMP, developed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Dark ages seen in new light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Remnants of the first stars have helped astronomers get closer to unlocking the “dark ages” of the cosmos.
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP shedding light on permanently shadowed regions of the moon
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Beaming up on the way to space
(Phys.org) -- Space may be the final frontier. But often a few trips to PML are necessary before things can get off the ground. One recent case in point is the test of an instrument called the Extreme Ultraviolet ...
May 07, 2012 |
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Distant galaxies reveal the clearing of the cosmic fog
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have used ESO's Very Large Telescope to probe the early Universe at several different times as it was becoming transparent to ultraviolet light. This brief but dramatic phase in ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Giant space blob glows from within: Primordial cloud of hydrogen found to be centrally powered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have shed light on the power source of a rare vast cloud of glowing gas in the early Universe. The observations show for the first time that this ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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NASA details achievements of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA has declared full mission success for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). As a result of the mission, LRO has changed our view of the entire moon and brought it into sharper focus with unprecedented ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Measuring the distant universe in 3-D: BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars
The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light years away – has been constructed by ...
May 01, 2011 |
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter delivers treasure trove of data
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Scientists detected surprising gases in Moon impact plume
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on the Moon, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Explained: Why many surveys of distant galaxies miss 90 percent of their targets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have long known that in many surveys of the very distant Universe, a large fraction of the total intrinsic light was not being observed. Now, thanks to an extremely deep survey ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Technology-testing Proba-2 opens new eye on the Sun
Packed with novel devices and science instruments, Proba-2 is demonstrating technologies for future ESA missions while providing new views of our Sun.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check
(PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2009 |
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