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Press Releases from 2005

Chandra Proves Black Hole Infuence is Far Reaching
  • read the press release: December 1, 2005
  • Images and additional information about Chandra are available here
NASA Scientists Witness A Supernova Cosmic Rite of Passage Scientists Find Possible Birth of Tiniest Known Solar System Planet-Sized Brown Dwarf May Yield Miniature Solar System Was Einstein's "Biggest Blunder" A Stellar Success? Hubble, Sloan Quadruple Number of Known Optical Einstein Rings Integral Unveils New Class Of 'Supergiant' X-ray Binary Stars Star on the Run - Speeding Star Observed With VLT Hints At Massive Black Hole
  • read the press release: November 9, 2005
  • The full text of this ESO Press release and the associated artist's impression is available here
Swift Satellite Hailed as "Best of What's New" in Popular Science Neutron Star Discovered Where A Black Hole Was Expected Scientists See Light That May Be From First Objects In Universe Kavli Institute Symposium on New Views of the Universe to meet Dec. 8-13 Black Holes Provide A Breeding Ground For Stars Black Holes Provide A Breeding Ground For Stars NASA's Chandra Reveals New Star Generation
  • read the press release: October 13, 2005
  • For more information about this and other Chandra research click here
'Six Years of Science with Chandra' Symposium Open to Media Hawaii Astronomers Track Down Source of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
  • read the press release: October 5, 2005
  • Information about each Swift-detected gamma-ray burst is available here
In A Flash NASA Helps Solve 35-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery Flashes Shed Light on Cosmic Clashes ESO's Telescopes See Afterglows of Elusive Short Bursts HETE-2 Satellite Helps UC Berkeley and International Team of Scientists Solve 35-Year-Old Mystery of Cosmic Explosions Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Decades-Old Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts Solved by International Team of Astronomers HETE-2 Satellite Solves Mystery Of Cosmic Explosions
  • read the press release: October 5, 2005
  • A high-resolution artist's rendering of the HETE-2 satellite is available upon request (see contact info)
MIT-Led Team Solves Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Bursts
  • read the press release: October 5, 2005
  • Animations and additional information on the HETE mission are available here
NASA's Gravity Probe B Mission Completes Data Collection
  • read the press release: October 3, 2005
  • Click here for information about Gravity Probe B on the Web
Black Holes Aren't So Black Cluster and Double Star See Star-Surface Cracks During Massive 'Starquake' Discovery Confirms Explosive Prediction Made by Astrophysicists in 1999 Hawaii Telescopes Catch Most Distant Explosion SOAR Telescope First to Observe and Measure Distance to Massive Explosion Most Distant Cosmic Explosion Detected Smashes Previous Record Star Death Beacon at the Edge of the Universe Star Eats Comapanion NASA's Swift Satellite Finds Newborn Black Holes Black Hole Blows Bubble Between the Stars NASA's Spitzer Finds Hidden, Hungry Black Holes Why Does The Sky Glow?
  • read the press release: August 3, 2005
  • For more information on the Spitzer Space Telescope click here
New Look At Microwave Background May Cast Doubts on Big Bang Theory This Supernova Just Won't Fade Away Three Satellites Needed To Bring Out 'Shy Star' X-Ray Oscillations From Biggest Star Quake In Universe Provide Clues to Mysterious Interior of Neutron Stars Scientists Measure How Deep "Deep Impact" Was, With X-rays NASA's Swift Satellite Offers a Different View of the Great Comet Collision
  • read the press release: July 4, 2005
  • click here for a movie of the ultraviolet observations and other images
Astronomers Using the VLT Discover Bright Cosmic Mirage Far Away Japanese X-ray Satellite with NASA Instrument to Launch this Summer Scientist Refines Cosmic Clock to Determine Age of Milky Way Researchers Devise Plasma Experiment that Shows how Astrophysical Jets are Formed Ripples in Cosmic Neutrino Background Measured for the First Time High School Students Win Time on New U.S. - Japan Space Telescope Mitchell Gift to McDonald Observatory Will Fund Dark Energy Experiment, Education Programs Cornell Astronomers Find Key Evidence Supporting Theory of Quasars Orbiting Stars Flooding Space With Exotic Gravitational Waves Naked Carbon/Oxygen Stars may Produce Gamma-Ray Bursts when their Core goes Supernova Astrophysicists Propose a Novel Procedure to Probe the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe and the Nature of Dark Energy Robotic Telescope Penetrates Heart of Universe's Most Powerful Explosion Scientists Watch Black Hole Born in Split-Second Flash of Light NASA'S Chandra Observatory Catches X-Ray Super-Flares Wonderful Star Reveals its Hot Nature SDSS Uses 200,000 Quasars to Confirm Einstein's Prediction of Cosmic Magnification XMM-Newton Sees 'Hot Spots' on Neutron Stars Star Explosions on the Half-Shell X-Ray Vision of Violence in Interacting Galaxy Clusters Discovery of Giant X-Ray Loop Hints at Cosmic Particle Accelerator Explosions in Space may have Initiated Ancient Extinction on Earth Era of Galaxy and Black Hole Growth Spurt Discovered Swift Mission Nabs Its First Distance Measurement to Star Explosion First Results from Swift Lisa and the Search for Elusive Gravity Waves Concentrated Dark Matter at the Cores of Fossil Galaxies Unveiling the High Energy Milky Way Reveals 'Dark Accelerators' New Image of Earth, Seen through Gamma-Ray Eyes Meeting Invites Amateur Astronomers to Help the Pros X-Rays Signal Presence of Elusive Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Researchers Find Evidence of Dark Energy in our Galactic Neighborhood Chandra Probes High-Voltage Auroras on Jupiter Distant Galaxies Show A Mature Universe Even in Childhood Newly Seen Force may Help Gravity in Star Formation NASA Observes One of Brightest Cosmic Explosions Keck Telescope Helps Detect First Gamma-Ray Bursts from the "SWIFT" Satellite New Measurement Undermines Physicists' Theories for Nature's Hidden 'Particle-Force' Collaboration Lost and Found: X-Ray Telescope Locates Missing Matter Swift Sees Pinwheel Galaxy, Satellite Fully Operational Before Stars, Dark Matter Haloes were First Objects in the Early Universe Integral Rolls Back History of Milky Way's Super-massive Black Hole Top High-Energy Astronomy Prize Awarded for Work on Star Explosions SWIFT Mission Images the Birth of a Black Hole Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA Songs of the Universe, Brought to the Classroom Surf's Up: Matter Rides on Wave of Spacetime Around Black Hole Scientists See Matter at Breakneck Speed Circling a Black Hole Close to a Black Hole's Edge, Scientists Make Two Discoveries Substructure Maps Show that Dark Matter Clumps in Galaxies Swift X-ray Telescope Sees Its First Light and Captures Its First Gamma-Ray-Burst Afterglow NASA SWIFT Mission Turns on and Sees a Blast of Bursts Most Powerful Eruption in the Universe Discovered [an error occurred while processing this directive]