Jan 16, 2019
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Russia loses control of only space telescope
Russia has lost control of its only space radio telescope but officials are working to re-establish communication, the country's beleaguered space agency said Monday.
Russian attempt to control orbiting radio telescope fails
Russia's space agency says another attempt by its specialists to establish contact with an orbiting radio telescope has failed.
Control of Russian radio telescope satellite lost
Russia's space agency says its specialists are attempting to fix problems that have blocked control of an orbiting radio telescope.
Unusual supernova opens a rare window on the collapse of a star
An unusual supernova studied by multiple telescopes, including the SOAR telescope and other telescopes at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) and NSF's Kitt Peak National ...
Astronomers find signatures of a 'messy' star that made its companion go supernova
Many stars explode as luminous supernovae when, swollen with age, they run out of fuel for nuclear fusion. But some stars can go supernova simply because they have a close and pesky companion star that, one day, perturbs ...
Cosmic telescope zooms in on the beginning of time
Observations from Gemini Observatory identify a key fingerprint of an extremely distant quasar, allowing astronomers to sample light emitted from the dawn of time. Astronomers happened upon this deep glimpse into space and ...
First evidence of gigantic remains from star explosions
Astrophysicists have found the first ever evidence of gigantic remains being formed from repeated explosions on the surface of a dead star in the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light years from Earth. The remains or "super-remnant" ...
Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera shuts down
The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera has shut down because of a hardware problem.
Student simulates thousands of black holes
Lia Medeiros, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, is developing mathematical models that will allow researchers to pit Einstein's Theory of General Relativity against the most powerful monsters of nature: supermassive ...
