Astrophysics Science Division News Archive
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2009
Jul 28 - MAXI was installed on the International Space Station last week, giving astronomers a new tool for finding flaring suns, black holes, and exploding stars. (Read more)
Jul 27 - Dr. John Mather joined the Blueshift podcast to share his sense of what makes scientific data beautiful. Read more in Volume 5, Issue 6 of the Goddard View.
Jul 27 - Jon Gardner (665) is featured in the Employee Spotlight in Volume 5, Issue 6 of the Goddard View.
Jul 21 - The GEMS mission is featured in an article in Volume 5, Issue 4 (Summer 2009) of Goddard Tech Trends.
Jul 1 - The GEMS mission is featured in an article in Volume 5, Issue 5 of the Goddard View.
Jun 19 - Congratulations to the GEMS (Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX) team for being selected to enter Phase B - after a very tough competition. The mission will probe the space-time environment close to Black Holes, to test General Relativity in this extreme environment and study the most intense magnetic fields found in the Universe.
Jun 12 - 100 Hours of Astronomy is featured in Volume 5, Issue 4 of the Goddard View.
Apr 1 - NASA Tech Briefs interviewed Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky (665). (Read more)
Feb 11 - Al Kogut (665), the principal investigator of the balloon-borne Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer, is featured in Volume 5 Issue 2 of Goddard Tech Trends. (Permalink)
2008
Dec 1 - Applications invited for one or more CS positions in observational high-energy astrophysics in the X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory.
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 16 - Will Zhang is featured in the Spring
2008 Goddard Tech Trends
newsletter.
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.
Jan 8 -
Washington Post article about black hole research features Neil Gehrels, HST, Swift, RXTE, Chandra, and
Constellation-X
2006
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
Sep 29 - UM, UMBC and USRA Join Forces with NASA to Create Center for Space Science and Technology
June 9 - EUD Scientists featured on BBC's Discovery program
May 15 - X-ray technology spin-off: medical imaging application of the multilayer technology developed in the X-ray Astrophysics Lab (Wash. Post article)
March 16 - WMAP Glimpses Universe's First Trillionth of a Second
2005
December 16 - Science magazine's NetWatch highlights EUD's Cosmicopia educational site.
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.
September 12 - Swift detects most distant explosion.
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 colleagues did this work
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
January 14 - "Hubble Finds Infant Stars in Neighboring Galaxy" Mark Clampin (code 667) is a co-I on the ACS/HST team.
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
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 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.
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"
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 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
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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