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• Russians track wayward U.S. spy satellite
As of the beginning of 2008, the ISON network consists of 18 scientific institutions, 18 observatories and observation facilities, 25 optical instruments, and more than 50 observers and researchers in various nations. In the big picture, Agapov noted ...
• Season’s greetings from space
The folks behind NASA's Great Observatories have just the thing for budget-conscious do-it-yourselfers. The Hubble Space Telescope is about as well-loved as Santa Claus, so the latest crop of Hubble holiday cards from the Space Telescope Science ...
• seismo-magnetic connection
... because of the relatively unsophisticated technology of the period and also because most of the few stations in existence back then were not in optimum locations. Two recent studies — one consolidating measurements taken at almost 100 observatories ...
• Ten ancient observatories spied from space - Space- msnbc.com
Flying 423 miles above Earth, the Ikonos satellite offers a space-age peek at ten ancient observatories built by cultures from long ago.
• NASA releases 3-D views of sun - Space.com- msnbc.com
The pictures were snapped with two nearly identical observatories that orbit the sun in tandem. Called STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory), the spacecraft were ...