Astronomy News

Posted December 8, 1998:

• Laser Provides First 3-D View Of Mars' North Pole

Posted December 7, 1998:

• International Space Station Assembly Continues -- Shuttle Astronauts Grapple Russian Zarya, Mate It To American Unity Module

Posted December 4, 1998:

• Shuttle Endeavour Successfully Launches In Mission To Assemble International Space Station

Posted December 3, 1998:

• Smart Materials Provide For Self-Adjusting Satellite Antennas
• CWRU's Nassau Telescope Goes Online In December For Public Use
• Needs Vital To Space Travelers Fulfilled In New JPL-Affiliated Toys

Posted December 2, 1998:

• Prospecting For Helium-3 On The Moon

Posted December 1, 1998:

• First U.S. Element Of International Space Station To Be Launched Dec. 3
• Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite To Study Star Formation

Posted November 30, 1998:

• Searching For ET From Home UC Berkeley Launches Project To Draw Public Into The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• Young Stars "Undressed" By Massive Stars Nearby

Posted November 26, 1998:

• Deep Space 1 Ion Propulsion System Starts Up

Posted November 24, 1998:

• The Universe "Down Under" Is The Target Of Hubble's Latest Deep-View

Posted November 23, 1998:

• High School Students Discover Distant Asteroid Using NSF Telescope And Education Program

Posted November 20, 1998:

• Scientist Finds Asteroid Fossil That May Have Caused Global Dinosaur Extinction

Posted November 19, 1998:

• Robotic Telescope Sheds Light On Cosmic Microwave Background
• Earth To Voyager 2 -- Ground Controllers Lose, Then Regain Contact With Space Probe On Solar System's Outer Fringes

Posted November 17, 1998:

• Brigham Young Students And NASA Engineers Work Together To Test Student-Developed Telescope
• Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere

Posted November 16, 1998:

• The Meteors Are Coming -- NASA Astrobiology To Shower Attention On Leonids
• Comet Catcher -- Stardust Spacecraft Arrives At Kennedy Space Center For Launch Preparations

Posted November 14, 1998:

• Proposed Visits to Martian Moons and Mercury -- Two Hopkins-Managed Missions Selected As NASA Discovery Program Candidates

Posted November 13, 1998:

• Astrophysicists Use Virtual Reality To Chase Earth's Tail

Posted November 12, 1998:

• ACE Spacecraft Braces For Fierce Meteor Storm

Posted November 11, 1998:

• Leonid Meteor Storm Won't Deter Hubble From Space Observations
• NASA Technology Helps Smithsonian Preserve The Star-Spangled Banner

Posted November 10, 1998:

• NCAR Flies Research Aircraft Below Once-In-A-Century Meteor Storm

Posted November 9, 1998:

• UF Joins NASA's Virtual Astrobiology Institute To Look For Life On Mars
• Astronomers In Arizona Aim For Shortest Submillimeter Wavelengths
• Research Aircraft Fly Below Once-In-A-Century Leonid Meteor Storm
• Air-Breathing Rocket Engine Tests Successfully Completed

Posted November 6, 1998:

• Cosmic Rays May Help Predict Earthquakes
• The Hitchhiker In Discovery's Baggage Compartment -- USC Experiment Studies Ultraviolet Solar Radiation
• Automated Rendezvous & Docking Component Completes Successful Test Aboard STS-95

Posted November 5, 1998:

• Radar-Processing Algorithm Produces High-Resolution Lunar Images

Posted November 4, 1998:

• Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere

Posted October 31, 1998:

• NASA Studies Balance In Two Woods Hole Toadfish, A Senator, And Five Astronauts In Shuttle Mission
• Swarthmore Professor, Students Recreating Conditions On Sun Surface: First-Of-Its Kind Research Providing Up-Close Look At Solar Flares And Corona

Posted October 29, 1998:

• New Mars Images Show Lava Flow Plates And Active Dunes

Posted October 28, 1998:

• Astronauts Glenn, Mukai, To Be Aided By MIT Scientific "Assistant" On Shuttle Experiment

Posted October 26, 1998:

• Deep Space 1 -- NASA's Ion-Engine Spacecraft -- Successfully Launched

Posted October 23, 1998:

• University Of Arizona Scientists Are First To Discover Debris Disk Around Star Orbited By Planet
• Glenn To Perform Purdue Soybean Experiment In Space

Posted October 22, 1998:

• Jupiter's Moon Callisto May Hide Salty Ocean
• Astronomers Unveil Colorful Hubble Photo Gallery
• NYU Physicist Proposes New Theory For Origin And Make-Up Of Extremely High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Posted October 21, 1998:

• Hopkins Sacrifices Telescope, Safeguards Sky-Mapping Project
• Deep Space 1 -- Futuristic Space Probe Powered By A Solar-Electric Propulsion System

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