Three basic principles govern the course we recommend. The first is the “flexible path” approach that the Augustine commission advocated and that President Obama and Congress accepted.
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MANY a youngster, Babbage included, has dreamed of going into space. But becoming an astronaut is a hard slog. Sandy Antunes suggests a less daunting proxy. An astrophysicist and programmer with decades of NASA experience, Dr Antunes is a proponent of pic
Continue reading >>Anyone who’s read or seen The Hobbit knows that dwarves love sparkling treasures — and this image from Hubble shows that dwarf galaxies are no different.
Continue reading >>Sept. 7, 2012 — You'd be hard pressed to find two galaxies as different as Messier 60, a giant, extremely bright elliptical galaxy, and NGC 4647, a beautiful spiral aglow with blue light from its many hot, young stars.
Continue reading >>Astronomers working on a multi-year program with the Hubble Space Telescope have announced the discovery of the most distant Type Ia supernova ever observed, a stellar explosion that occurred over 10 billion years ago — breaking the previous record by nea
Continue reading >>The Hubble Space Telescope has probed deep into a dense cloud of gas and dust to reveal the light of a stellar birthing.
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