Last Updated October 16, 1999
September 23, 1999
Mars Climate Orbiter lost
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Current Sky events (Astronomy magazine)
Two twin 8.1 meter (26 feet) telescopes are being built, one at Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the other in Cerro Pachón Chile. First images from the telescopes now available for viewing on the internet. You can read about the projects
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Gemini North Dedication and First Pictures
Now On to the News!!
September 23, 1999
Mars Climate Orbiter lost
September 3, 1999
NASA's oldest orbiter ready for its third refurbishment
Shuttle fleet grounded due to exposed wiring
Rossi X-ray Explorer looks for "A Wrinkle in Time" space-time, that is
Forget Y2K: Prepare for the solar maximum (and there is NO patch for this problem)
August 30, 1999
First water found in extra-terrestrial object (a meteorite found last year) The water was found inside halite crystals (salt) and may be as old or older than the solar system itself
August 28, 1999
Possibly the last crew of the MIR space station safely back on Earth
Most detailed pictures ever of Io released
August 27, 1999
Chandra X-ray Observatory: it works First pictures stun scientists with new discoveries and incredible detail
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MIR end of an era
Damaged wires found on all shuttles during inspections
August 25, 1999
Mars Polar Lander landing site announced!!
Space Shuttle schedule in disarray
August 24, 1999
The "failed" WIRE telescope mission yields a treasure trove of information after all
First pictures from the Chandra X-ray observatory due out Thursday
Subaru telescope views jets emitting from future binary star pair
August 22, 1999
"Coolest" brown dwarf ever discovered
NASA to launch cake-sized intelligent satellites in 2003 to test new technologies
August 21, 1999
"Mystery Object" update: New data from the Keck telescope show it to be a peculiar BAL Quasar at the redshift of 1.2. So, no longer a mystery!
August 18, 1999
Three years after its discovery, astronomers are still baffled by a mysterious celestial light
Another article on the unknown celestial body
Space shuttle Endeavour launch postponed for safety inspection
Io Flyby in october/november poses risks to Galileo probe
August 17, 1999
Cassini and Polar make a detailed study of the Earth's magnetosphere
First visual evidence seen for matter entering a black hole
Boeing Delta 2 launches Globalstar satellites
August 4, 1999
NASA: Eclipse 99 LIVE!! (On August 11)
Goddard Space Flight Center Eclipse Page
Thursday's Classroom
A new Science@NASA website for kids in 2nd grade through high school. OK, it's got something for everyone, pretty much
The solar eclipse/Focault pendulum connection
There goes the sun (another eclipse article)
Yahoo 24 hour coverage of Solar Eclipse news
Ham Radio Operators Tune in to the Upcoming Eclipse (August 11)
July 30, 1999
Are there seas on Titan?
July 23, 1999
What will the Chandra Observatory observe, anyway?
Shuttle Columbia launches largest payload ever, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, after a less than perfect journey into space
Chandra X-ray Observatory News
May 19, 1999
SETI@Home Project Begins. Look for ET with your computer!
18th Moon of Uranus Discovered
Black Holes also come in Pink
Another huge gamma ray burst is seen, ranking in the top 100 in strength
A cyclone 4 times the size of Texas rages on Mars (composed of water-ice clouds, not dust)
May 6, 1999
New software lets you track satellite position and locate them in the sky with the naked eye (J-PASS)
April 15, 1999
The first solar system outside our own just announced, containing 3 Jupiter size planets orbiting a star with similar size to our own.
April 1, 1999
NASA's Landsat 7 satellite to be launched April 15 at Vandenburg Air Force base
Are clues to potential life on other worlds right here on Earth?
March 25, 1999
The largest energy burst ever seen live which originated around nine billion light-years away from Earth. It was the most incredible explosion ever witnessed as satellites and telescopes watched "live".
the Space Race moves out to sea
March 20, 1999
Life on Mars? You Decide
March 18, 1999
New Images of Mars, from the Mars Global Surveyor
Movies and Pictures from Mars
March 17, 1999
A new supernova bursts into existence
Planets in a Bottle: Life on the Edge
So what the heck did Spacelab accomplish anyway??
Some Skylab information (not Spacelab)
March 12, 1999
The International Space Station may get its first crew months earlier than planned
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Will Saturn's giant moon Titan finally reveal its secrets?
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Some facts about Titan, which is bigger than the planet Mercury
Mars smiles for the camera
Mars Global Surveyor began mapping the Red Planet Monday
Some of the first pictures taken were of Olympus Mons, a dormant volcano whose peak rises over 16 Miles above the surrounding Martian plain. For comparison, Mount Everest is less than 6 miles high.
Mars Homepage by JPL
March 8, 1999
An article on the 20th anniversary of the discovery of Magnetars, having the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.
If you came close to a magnetar, the magnetic field would be so great that all the molecules in your body would be rearranged (probably not to your liking).
The Rotary reusable rocket is revealed
Bringing humans back into the Iron Age--- on Mars
A traffic jam of galactic proportions (literally)
March 2, 1999 Twice in a blue moon??
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February 27, 1999
A newly discovered "comet" may actually be a chunk of the moon
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February 26, 1999
NASA may make emergency repairs to Hubble
Added a link to the ICESat satellite, to study the changing ice shelves of Antarctica.
ICESat article
New images from the Mars Global Surveyor
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February 16, 1999 --- The Galileo spacecraft is now back to normal operations after a two week glitch
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A spectacular lunar eclipse is viewed Tuesday in Australia
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February 14, 1999 --- The next Mir crew may be its last after all
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February 12, 1999 --- Some great IMAX images of the recent International Space Station assembly mission. These are awesome pics!!
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NASA's next Great Observatory gets ready for space
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Scientists look in caves here on Earth to see what possible life on Mars may resemble.
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February 11, 1999 --- Fuzzy blobs and gamma rays
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Pluto is now again the furthest planet in the solar system
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February 10, 1999 --- New Hubble Space Telescope images may show the birth of solar systems.
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The X-38 prototype of the new Crew Return Vehicle flew a perfect second unmanned flight.
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February 12, 1999 --- The Ørsted, Sunsat, and ARGOS satellites are scheduled to launch aboard a Delta II rocket on February 12, 1999.
recent articles
February 5, 1999 --- Researchers say they have now been able to visualize the source of the solar wind -- it's coming from honeycomb-shaped magnetic fields called coronal holes on the surface of the sun.
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February 7, 1999 --- The Stardust mission to capture debris from a comet and return it to Earth will launch 07 February 1999. There is a link to it on this page under "other space missions" UPDATE: LAUNCH SUCCESSFUL!!
February 5, 1999 --- An article on the Stardust mission, from NASA news. The launch is scheduled for just after 4:00 PM EST on Sunday, 07 February, 1999.
another Stardust article
From NASA News, the Galileo spacecraft buzzes by Europa, a moon of Jupiter which probably contains an ocean of water underneath its surface.
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January 27, 1999 --- For the first time, scientists have witnessed the visible light emitted at the same time as a gamma-ray burst, a mysterious explosion in the far reaches of the universe.
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X-38 first launch
February 27, 1999 --- The first flight of a new Crew Return Vehicle will take place. The current prototype would by used for emergency return of astronauts from the I.S.S., for example.
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