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First Use of Cosmic Lens to Probe Dark Energy |
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An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe dark energy. This mysterious phenomenon, discovered in 1998, is pushing our universe apart at ever-increasing speeds. The team's results appear in the August 20, 2010 issue of the journal Science. |
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Science with the
Hubble Space Telescope - III
After an initial agreement between NASA and ESA in 1977 and following Hubble's more than twenty years in space and 110,000 orbits of the Earth, the aim of this conference is to celebrate the huge contributions made by the Hubble observatory to our knowledge and understanding of the Universe. Read more...
2010 May Symposium
The 2010 May Symposium will bring together two communities of astronomers, those
studying resolved
stellar populations in the nearby Universe and those focusing on better
understanding the properties and evolution
of stellar populations in the highest redshift systems.
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Nix/Hydra Workshop
The principal objective of this workshop is to discuss our understanding of Nix and
Hydra on the fifth anniversary of their discovery, as part of the planning for the
detailed reconnaissance of the Pluto system in 2015 by NASA's New Horizons
mission. The workshop will focus on Nix and Hydra in the context of Pluto formation, Kuiper
Belt Object analog bodies, and the general topic of KBO satellites.
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2010 Calibration Workshop
The Fifth Calibration Workshop will be held at the Space Telescope Science Institute
in Baltimore, MD on 21–23 July 2010. The workshop is intended to foster sharing of
information and techniques amongst observers, archive miners, instrument support teams,
and instrument developers.
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