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08.11.2010

Breathtaking Image of Colliding Galaxies

A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. (Click "read more" to see.) The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in the composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like "arms," seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced by tidal forces generated in the collision.

07.30.2010

Taking a Shot at the Sun

Marshall solar physicists and engineers designed the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation, or SUMI, to determine the strength and direction of magnetic fields in a region of the sun where the magnetic field has never been measured.

07.26.2010

Space Weather Turns into an International Problem

Representatives from more than 25 of the world's most technologically-advanced nations gathered in Germany July 16th to hear about a problem that may be too big for any one country to handle alone: solar storms.

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WHAT IS THE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES? The Distinguished Lecture Series consist of lectures by distinguished U.S. and international scientists and space officials about topics of both scientific and public interest, such as global climate change, the cosmic origins of life, planetary exploration and the scientific research needed to support human space flight. Who: Professor Roger Blandford, (Stanford University) is a world-renowned astrophysicist, who is also Chairing the current National Research Council's Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Topic: “"Measuring the Hubble Constant using Gravitational Lensing"”
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