Category: Astronomy
26 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Accident Clouds U.S. Future on Mir
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The gash ripped in the Mir space station yesterday may deflate more than just the science module that served as living quarters and laboratory for U.S. astronauts: A delicate...
24 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rapid Collapse Gave Giant Planets Gas?
Some of our solar system's "gas giant" planets may have formed when clumps of gas and dust in the early solar system collapsed precipitously, in 1000 years or less, a...
20 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NASA Solar System Chief Killed in Accident
Just weeks before a sophisticated probe reaches Mars and only months before launch of a major probe to Saturn, NASA's science program director for solar system exploration was killed on...
13 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Arecibo Reprise
After sleeping for 5 years in a mountaintop sinkhole, the world's most powerful radar and radio telescope--spiffed up after a $27 million upgrade--is about to spring back to life. In...
11 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earth's Pet Rock
At first sight, it looked like an ordinary asteroid. It is anything but. In tomorrow's issue of Nature, three astronomers report that a 5-kilometer-wide rock follows Earth around the sun...
10 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Case of the Superbright Supernova
Puzzled by a star that seemed to stay too bright in the sky too long after it had exploded, astronomers turned to their ultimate gumshoe, the Hubble telescope. Now they...
4 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Our Solar System Is Getting Crowded
Astronomers have discovered a new class of the icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system, inhabiting a region of space once thought to be barren. A...
30 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Map Reveals Distant Star's Magnetic Fields
Astronomers have enlisted a continent-wide array of radio telescopes to map the magnetic field of a bloated red giant star. This first magnetic map of another star, to be published...
29 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
More Trouble for First Extrasolar Planet
A team of California astronomers has come up with new evidence disputing the existence of the first planetlike object found around a star like our sun. The putative planet, detected...
28 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Heavenly Showers Rain on Earth
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND--Space physicists here at the spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union conceded today that Earth's high atmosphere contains numerous splotches of water. But a sharp disagreement persists over...
20 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cool Fix for Hubble Infrared Camera?
Astronomers' spirits sagged earlier this year when the Hubble Space Telescope's new infrared camera sprang a coolant leak, potentially cutting in half the instrument's planned 4-year lifetime. But now NASA...
19 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NASA Joins Japan in Exploring Asteroid
TOKYO--A Japanese mission to sample a small asteroid got a boost last week when NASA announced it would contribute a robotic rover and ground support. The spacecraft, scheduled for launch...
15 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Russians Still in Station Program, But Launches Delayed
Funding problems in Russia have led to an 8-month delay in the planned launch of the first pieces of the international space station. The initial launch will now occur in...
14 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Far Out: Distance to Gamma-Ray Bursts Pegged
Quick reactions from astronomers last week may have settled a long-standing debate in astrophysics: the origin of the mysterious flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts. After the Italian-Dutch satellite Beppo-SAX...
12 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hubble's New Eye Espies Black-Hole Havoc
WASHINGTON, D.C.--NASA today offered a look at the first fruits of two new instruments installed aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during February's servicing mission. Among the early results of...
8 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Space Bugs Seem Tame
MIAMI BEACH--Russia's Mir space station has had its share of problems, from fires to dwindling oxygen supplies. But astronauts there can now worry less about one potential nightmare: the prospect...
7 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Finer Views to Come From European Radio Telescope
UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS--In the quest to image ever-fainter and more ancient galaxies, Dutch radio astronomers this week unveiled preliminary plans to build the world's largest radio telescope--a gargantuan device that...
1 May 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Baker's Dozen Win Top Science Prizes
WASHINGTON, D.C.--National Science Foundation director Neal Lane announced here yesterday the 1997 recipients of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. Also announced were winners of the...
28 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Fountain of Annihilation
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA--Scientists have discovered what appears to be a plume of antiparticles gushing from the center of our galaxy. The finding, announced here today at the Fourth Compton Symposium on...
25 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Seeing the Baryonic Forest for the Trees
Astronomers lost in an impenetrable forest may have finally found a way out. Two astrophysicists appear to have cleared up the puzzling distribution of matter that blocks certain wavelengths of...
22 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NASA Drops Hot Potato
WASHINGTON, D.C.--NASA announced today that it will abandon Bion, a controversial life sciences project undertaken with Russia and France to test the effects of weightlessness on monkeys in space. Faced...
22 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Intrigue Surrounds Gamma-Ray Source
The long-running mystery of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)--flashes from somewhere in space that periodically set detectors screaming--has taken another dizzying twist. After astronomers thought they had tracked a recent burst to...
21 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Timothy Leary's Last Trip
Harvard pop psychology guru Timothy Leary has transcended his body one last time. The cremated remains of the LSD aficionado, along with those of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and...
21 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Supernova in a Jar
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists have triggered a miniature explosion that may resemble a tiny supernova by enticing a newly created form of matter, called Bose-Einstein condensate, to collapse in the lab. The...
21 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Twisted Universe Theory Falls Flat
Interesting--but probably wrong. That sums up the reaction of most physicists and radio astronomers to an extraordinary claim appearing in today's Physical Review Letters that space itself might have a...
18 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NASA Told to Keep On Stargazing
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A blue-ribbon panel has urged NASA to follow up quickly on recent stunning astronomy successes, from the mapping of the cosmic microwave background to the discovery of new planets....
18 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Galactic Flare Sets a Record
WASHINGTON, D.C.--An hours-long pulse of gamma rays from a distant galaxy is the most powerful ever seen from a celestial source, astronomers said here today at a meeting of the...
14 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Floating Frogs
When pigs fly? That could be sooner than you think. A group of researchers in the Netherlands and in England has made a frog levitate in a magnetic field. Although...
11 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Northern Light Show Down Low
New Englanders who suffered through a spring blizzard last week came in for an equally rare, but far more delightful, treat last night: the aurora borealis. The spectacular show was...
10 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Just in From the Storm Desk ...
A cloud of charged particles ejected by the sun smashed into Earth's upper atmosphere this afternoon, several hours later than predicted. The mild magnetic storm doesn't appear to have harmed...
9 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Milky Way's Dark Shell
The galaxy's main ingredient is also its most inscrutable: a cloud of dark matter several times more massive than the visible stars and gas. Astronomers don't know what kind of...
8 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Canada, U.S. Strike Deal on Space Station
Canada will build an important component of the international space station in exchange for free access to its laboratories under a new bilateral agreement announced today in Washington. The agreement,...
4 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cluster Rises From Ashes
PARIS--Ten months ago, European space scientists saw one of their most important projects go up in smoke when Europe's Ariane 5 rocket, carrying a quartet of satellites called Cluster, exploded...
1 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Meteorite Hints at Life on Jupiter Moon
Editor's note: It has come to our attention that some of our readers didn't notice that this story was posted on 1 April, and they didn't follow the link at...
28 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Ancient Galaxy Walls Look Eerily Familiar
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA--Giant walls of galaxies, hundreds of millions of light-years long, may have crisscrossed the universe when it was just 15% of its present age. If confirmed, the finding, revealed...
26 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Upgraded Hubble Runs Into Trouble
NASA engineers are unable to focus a camera on an instrument installed last month on the Hubble Space Telescope. The blurred vision is expected to delay a number of studies,...
20 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New European Space Chief
PARIS--The European Space Agency (ESA) has found a new person to lead it into the 21st century. ESA's governing board today tapped as the agency's next Director-General Antonio Rodota, a...
17 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Vanishing Galaxy May Be Source of Far-Out Gamma Rays
UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS--Dutch astronomers have linked a massive burst of gamma rays last month to a distant galaxy that grew much dimmer afterward. The observation, described in an astronomical bulletin...
11 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tuning In to a Distant Planet
The French astronomer who co-discovered the planet Neptune, Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, was born on this day in 1811. Based on hints that Uranus veered slightly from the orbit predicted...
10 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Homing In on the Elusive Source of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Dutch and Italian astronomers are closing the net on the culprits behind one of astronomy's greatest mysteries: gamma-ray bursts. Since their discovery almost 30 years ago, over 1000 of these...
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