Welcome to our archive of past news articles.
You will find previous articles listed below from most the recent back to our first articles in 1996.

	Mirror, Mirror... [14 Dec 1997] - A new type of X-ray mirror that allows images to be made from higher energy radiation than ever before has recently completed testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
	The Yell of a Black Hole [04 Dec 1997] - How fast are black holes at the centers of distant galaxies swallowing the matter around them? Using observations from the Japanese/NASA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA), Paul Nandra, Richard Mushotzky, and their research team have begun to shed some light on this question.
	Einstein Passes Another Test [07 Nov 1997] - Astronomers using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) spacecraft reported on November 6 that they have observed a black hole that is literally dragging space and time around itself as it rotates. This bizarre effect, called "frame dragging," is the first evidence to support a prediction made in 1918 using Einstein's Theory of Theory of Relativity.
	Future Mission Gets Stellar Name [22 Oct 1997] - The Next Generation X-ray Observatory called the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy (HTXS) mission has been renamed the Constellation Mission.
	A New Dark Matter Discovery [23 July 1997] - X-ray observations by of the celestial object MG2026+112 have given scientists a new puzzle to solve....and great clues to help them do it!
	The Milky Way Blows Bubbles ?! [07 May 1997] - Astronomers using the NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) satellite to map the distribution of antimatter in the Milky Way Galaxy were surprised to find what appears to be a large antimatter bubble being blown upward from the center of our Galaxy.
	Look, There in the Sky! It's a Gamma-Ray Burster? [27 Mar 1997] - What exactly is the source of a gamma-ray burst? Since their discovery in the early 1970s, nobody has been able to explain the cause of the mysterious flash of gamma-rays called a gamma-ray burst that seems to come from a random direction on the sky. Worse yet, it is even unclear whether these high-energy explosions originate in our own Galaxy or in distant galaxies across the Universe. Now, all of that may have changed!
	Reboosting the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory [18 Feb 1997] - The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) has been in Earth orbit for nearly six years now. In that time, observations from its 4-instrument complement have greatly expanded our understanding of the most energetic objects in the Universe.