Astrophysics Science Division News Archive
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2008
Oct 2 -
Mike Mumma (PI), and his colloaborators Carol Grady, Kenji Hamaguchi, Tim Kallman, Marc Kuchner, Rob Petre, and Aki Roberge had a successful
proposal for the Goddard Center for Astrobiology (GCA), part of the NASA Astrobiology Insititute.
Aug 26 -
GLAST is renamed "Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope"
Jul 3 - Scott Barthelmy is featured in an article in Volume 4 Issue 11 of the
Goddard View.
Jun 20 - NASA Selects
Explorer Mission of Opportunity Investigations which include the High-Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectrometer
(SXS) for NeXT, led by Richard Kelley. Congrats to the whole team!
Jun 11 - GLAST launched!
May 29 - The Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS) SMEX mission led by PI Jean Swank was selected for Phase A study.
Congratulations to Jean and her team! Neil Gehrels is a Co-I on another SMEX selected for Phase A study: JANUS.
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"
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