Astrophysics Science Division News Archive

2008

Apr 30 - Julie McEnery and Will Zhang are featured in separate articles in Volume 4, Issue 7 of the Goddard View.

Apr 29 - Neil Gehrels has been elected to membership in the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences.

Apr 16 - Will Zhang is featured in the Spring 2008 Goddard Tech Trends newsletter.

Apr 8 - John Baker and Joan Centrella have jointly won this year's Lindsay Award, Goddard's highest award for scientific achievement in space science.

2007

Oct 22 - ASD director Nick White announces move to lead Sciences & Exploration Directorate. Bill Oegerle to become ASD director.

Sep 5 - National Academies: 'Beyond Einstein' Research Should Begin With Mission to Study Dark Energy (Download the PDF: Quest for Dark Energy)

Aug 24 - An Early Release version of the Hubble Legacy Archive is available

Aug 3 - Stephen Merkowitz's concept study "Precision Lunar Laser Ranging" has been selected by NASA

Jul 16 - NASA Science Building 'Breaks New Ground'

Apr 6 - Blueshift, a new monthly podcast produced by the ASD is now available.

Mar 8 - Congratulations to Harvey Mosely for winning the AAS's 2007 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation.

Mar 8 - Swift Press Release: Gamma-Ray Burst Challenges Theory

Feb 13 - Goddard Space Science Is the Place for Awards This Season

Jan 24 - JWST Press Release: NASA Creates Microscopic Technology for Webb Space Telescope

Jan 9 - Congratulations to Ann Hornschemeier for winning the AAS Annie J Cannon Award.

Jan 9 - Congratulations to Neil Gehrels and the Swift Team for winning this year's AAS Rossi Prize "for gamma-ray burst discoveries with the Swift mission".

Jan 8 - Washington Post article about black hole research features Neil Gehrels, HST, Swift, RXTE, Chandra, and Constellation-X

2006

Dec 18 - NASA Telescope Picks Up Glow of Universe's First Objects - Spitzer press release of science by Sasha Kashlinsky, John Mather, and Harvey Mosely.

Nov 27 - Jeremy Richardson appointed the first John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow of the AAS

Nov 20 - Using RXTE astronomers find Spinning Black Hole Pushes the Limit

Oct 31 - Monster of the Milky Way: NASA Black Hole Research is Focus of PBS NOVA special that airs Oct 31 at 8pm and features GLAST and ASD's Steve Ritz.

Oct 31 - NASA Approves Mission and Names Crew for Return to Hubble

Oct 31 - Drake Deming receives concept study approval from NASA for the Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh) mission

Oct 3 - John Mather wins the Nobel Prize for Physics

Sep 29 - UM, UMBC and USRA Join Forces with NASA to Create Center for Space Science and Technology

Sep 20 - GLAST press release: 'Extreme Physics' Observatory Ready For Final Assembly

Aug 15 - Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team Wins Gruber Prize

June 9 - EUD Scientists featureed on BBC's Discovery program

June 2 - Scott Barthelmy (661) and Gary Hinshaw (665) receive the John C. Lindsay Award for Space Science

May 17 - 'Extreme Physics' Observatory Prepares for Flight (GLAST press release)

May 15 - X-ray technology spin-off: medical imaging application of the multilayer technology developed in the X-ray Astrophysics Lab (Wash. Post article)

April 18 - Breakthrough Reached in Visualizing Black Hole Collisions (press release)

March 16 - WMAP Glimpses Universe's First Trillionth of a Second

January 11 - Tod Strohmayer (662) shares AAS Rossi Prize for his breakthrough work on millisecond pulsars and QPO from X-ray binaries

2005

December 16 - Science magazine's NetWatch highlights EUD's Cosmicopia educational site.

November 9 - Swift Wins "Best of What's New" in Popular Science - 661's Neil Gehrels is Swift's PI.

November 2 - EUD scientists discover anisotropies in the cosmic infrared background - Sasha Kashlinsky, Rick Arendt, John Mather and Harvey Moseley (all Code 665) published this work in Nature.

October 5 - Swift: In a Flash NASA Helps Solve 35-year-old Cosmic Mystery

September 12 - Swift detects most distant explosion.

August 10 - John Mather wins SPIE's George W. Goddard award.

July 28 - ARCADE/CosmoCam flew overnight across Texas.

July 13 - "Three satellites needed to bring out 'shy star'" Volker Beckmann (661) led this work

July 10 - Astro-E2 (now Suzaku) launched! Congrats to the XRS and XRT teams in the EUD, and to the entire mission team in the US and Japan.

June 22 - "NASA's Hubble Chases Unruly Planet" Mark Clampin (667) and collegues did this work

June 6 - Jennifer Scott is awarded 2005 Robert J. Trumpler Award by the ASP Jennifer Scott (665) is an NRC post-doc

May 31 - "NASA Sees Orbiting Stars Flooding Space With Gravitational Waves" Tod Strohmayer (662) leads this research

May 31 - Photos of EUD staff at the AAS meeting

May 26 - Neil Gehrels receives Lindsay Award - Goddard's highest Space Science achievement award.

May 11 - "NASA Scientists Catch a Unique Gamma-Ray Burst" Neil Gehrels (661) is Swift Project Scientist

March 28 - "New Frontier Opens In The Search For Life On Other Planets" Bill Danchi (667) was a co-author on this research.

February 18 - Swift's NASA Science Update: Cosmic Explosion Among the Brightest in Recorded History

January 31 - Former LASP scientist Chuck Bennett is awarded Henry Draper medal by the National Academy of Sciences.

January 14 - "Hubble Finds Infant Stars in Neighboring Galaxy" Mark Clampin (code 667) is a co-I on the ACS/HST team.

January 14 - "First Search in Stellar Graveyard Yields Two Possible Planets" Bruce Woodgate (code 667) is a co-investigator on this research.

January 11, 2005 - "New Clues Found in Ongoing Mystery of Giant Galactic Blobs" announced at the AAS meeting by Colbert et al including Bruce Woodgate, GSFC/EUD, co-I).

January 10, 2005 - "A Race Round a Black Hole" result from Jane Turner.

January 10, 2005 - "Black hole is a space-bender, and mind-bender" RXTE press release.

January 5, 2005 - Swift press release: Swift Mission Turns On, Sees a Blast Of Bursts

2004

December 7, 2004 - "A Resolved Debris Disk around the G2V star HD 107146" by Ardila et al, including M. Clampin.

November 29, 2004 -Dr. Walter Feibelman, friend and colleague, has passed away.

November 20, 2004 - Swift launched!

November 15, 2004 - Fabrication of James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Moves Forward; Northrop Grumman Teammate Axsys Technologies Opens New Facility

November 8, 2004 - InFOCuS press release: New NASA-Japanese Telescope Images Uncharted Wavelengths

October 9, 2004 - Dr. Charles Bennett, Principal Investigator of WMAP, was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences at a ceremony on Cambridge, MA

October 5, 2004 - NASA team studies far-IR interferometer to explore origins of stars and planets

September 28, 2004 - John Mather gave a speech on risk at the NASA Administrator's conference on "Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and the Stars"

September 17, 2004 - InFOCuS has successful 20-hour flight!

September 8, 2004 - Tod Strohmayer: Scientists gain glimpse of bizarre matter in a neutron star

September 8, 2004 - Joan Centrella named head of Gravitational Wave & Theory Group, now Gravitational Astrophysics Lab

August 13, 2004 - Astro-E2 dewar in Japan

August 11, 2004 - "NASA plans Robotic Fix for Hubble", Washington Post.

July 29, 2004 - SPIRIT (Leisawitz/LASP, PI) has been chosen by NASA for an Origins mission concept study. See the NASA press release including the the full list of selected concepts.

July 27, 2004 - Swift departs for the Cape

July 16, 2004 - National Academy of Sciences Report on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of Hubble Space Telescope.

July 7, 2004 - New LHEA display at the Goddard Visitor Center

June 28, 2004 - "Living with Our Stormy Star", featuring pictures from SOHO and quotes from LASP scientists Joe Gurman and Paal Brekke in the July issue of National Geographic (cover story).

June 1, 2004 - NASA Administrator O'Keefe announces decision to pursue robotic servicing of HST. See the full speech delivered to the AAS meeting.

May 21, 2004 - Dr. Brian Dennis receives the 2004 John C. Lindsay Memorial Award, for scientific accomplishment in the area of Space Science. Brian is the Mission Scientist for RHESSI.

May 6, 2004 - Two Senior Scientists in LASP honored by awards. Dr. Charles Bennett was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. John Mather received a 2003 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Senior Professionals.

April 14, 2004 - Scientists to plan International Heliophysical Year LASP's Thompson, Davila are co-chairs

March 8, 2004 - William Danchi to speak April 14, 2004 at the National Air & Space Museum in the lecture series "New Strategies for Detecting Life in the Universe"

February 17, 2004 - Chuck Bennett, Principal Investigator of WMAP, has been nominated for a Rave Award by Wired Magazine in the "scientist" category. See the NASA Press release.

January 7, 2004 - Huge Galaxy String Challenges Space Theory (AAS Press Release). See the cool animated fly-through of a high-redshift supercluster of galaxies (MPEG - 8MB)

January 5, 2004 - Big Old Stars Don't Die Alone

2003

December 19, 2003 - WMAP and SDSS provide "Science Breakthrough" of the Year for 2003, in Science Magazine

December 18, 2003 - NASA Releases Dazzling Images from New Space Telescope

December 8, 2003 - Extensive Destruction Powers Solar Explosions

October 23, 2003 - SOHO Spots Jupiter-Sized Sunspot & Earth-Directed Flares

September 29, 2003 - Prestigious Award for SOHO Team

September 4, 2003 - SIRTF First light

September 2, 2003 - Antimatter Factory on Sun Yields Clues to Solar Explosions

June 19, 2003 - The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey

June 18, 2003 - Spacecraft Trio Peeks at Secret Recipe for Stormy Solar Weather

June 10, 2003 - Headless Comets Survive Plunge Through Sun's Atmosphere

May 28, 2003 - RHESSI's Lucky Break May Lead to Secret of Ultimate Explosions

May 27, 2003 - Hidden Supernova Reveals Dust Enshrouded "Supernova Factory"