NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy, Washington Post “The U.S. government’s secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful […]
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Extending Missions, Operating Hubble Means Cuts Elsewhere
NASA Astrophysics Urged To Slim Down, Aviation Week “The SRC strongly urges the HST to consider all possible avenues, vigorously pursuing ways to accelerate cost reductions without compromising mission safety […]
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Shameless Kissing Up To Congress at STScI
Space Astronomy Archive and Supernova Are Named for Senator Barbara Mikulski “One of the world’s largest astronomy archives, containing a treasure trove of information about myriad stars, planets, and galaxies, […]
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NASA Budget Realities: Past Mistakes, Future Impacts
Red Planet meets red ink: budget ax could chop two NASA Mars missions, Christian Science Monitor “Overall, the reports suggest that the total budget request for NASA will come in […]
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American Astronomical Society's "Citizen Journalist" at Tomorrow's Budget Press Briefing
Keith’s note: Among the “citizen journalists” at Monday’s press briefing on the FY 2013 budget will be Bethany Jones @AAS_Bethany_J (aka @AAS_CAPP, the John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow for the […]
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Webb: Who Cares What It Costs – Don't Bother Us – Just Send Money
Webb Telescope Delayed, Costs Rise to $8 Billion, Science “The new $8 billion price tag doesn’t include operating costs of about $780 million for the far-seeing infrared observatory’s first 5 […]
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Stunning Hubble Image of NGC 2841
Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 “NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC […]
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Hubble Makes Another Unusual Discovery
Hubble Zooms In on a Space Oddity “One of the strangest space objects ever seen is being scrutinized by the penetrating vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. A mysterious, glowing, […]
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Help Keep Daily Hubble Status Reports Online
“For the past decades we have been posting the HST Daily Status Reports to this newsgroup for interested readers, and those people who use the HST as part of their […]
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Please Look at This Image
Breaking Waves in the Stellar Lagoon “A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. Seen as a massive cloud of glowing dust and […]