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- April 7, 2009 - New Release of the Swift Software and Calibration Data is Available for Download.
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- April 3, 2009 - Swift's Comet Tally Highlighted in Observatory Webcast
- A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown today during a live, 24-hour video webcast called "Around the World in 80 Telescopes." Organized by the European Southern Observatory headquartered in Garching, Germany, the webcast is part of the 100 Hours of Astronomy project, a worldwide celebration of astronomy running through April 5.
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- February 20, 2009 - NASA's Swift Spies Comet Lulin
- While waiting for high-energy outbursts and cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite is monitoring Comet Lulin as it closes on Earth. For the first time, astronomers are seeing simultaneous ultraviolet and X-ray images of a comet.
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- February 10, 2009 - NASA'S Swift, Fermi Probe Fireworks from a Flaring Gamma-ray Star
- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star known as a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Such objects unpredictably send out a series of X-ray and gamma-ray flares.
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- January 13, 2009 - New Release of the Swift Software and Calibration Data is Available for Download.
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