http://astro.cornell.edu/ The latest site updates from the Cornell Astronomy website. en-us Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:48:03 GMT http://astro.cornell.edu/rss CakePHP info@ancientwisdompro.com http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/nasa-mars-rover-finds-mineral-vein-deposited-by-water.html PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the... Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/nasa-mars-rover-finds-mineral-vein-deposited-by-water.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/new-nasa-mars-rover-may-help-launch-future-searches-for-life.html By Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer Image Info: The rover is to be powered by nuclear generator (not shown in this drawing) permitting the Mars machinery a long range ability to explore sci... Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/new-nasa-mars-rover-may-help-launch-future-searches-for-life.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/new-hubble-photo-shows-off-gorgeous-globular-cluster.html SPACE.com Staff Image Info: A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large M... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/new-hubble-photo-shows-off-gorgeous-globular-cluster.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/nasa-mission-to-mercury-gets-1-year-life-extension.html By Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing EditorImage Info: First high-resolution image of Mercury transmitted by the MESSENGER spacecraft (in false color, 11 narrow-band color filters). ... Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/nasa-mission-to-mercury-gets-1-year-life-extension.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/black-hole-s-cosmic-feasting-brings-bouts-of-belching.html Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com ContributorImage info: This artist's concept shows what the black hole GX 339-4 might look like as it sucks excess matter from a star orbiting only a few million mi... Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/black-hole-s-cosmic-feasting-brings-bouts-of-belching.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/russia-still-trying-to-contact-stranded-mars-moon-probe.html by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior WriterImage info: An artist's concept of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft nearing the Martian moon Phobos. CREDIT: Roscosmos ... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/russia-still-trying-to-contact-stranded-mars-moon-probe.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/colloquium-speaker-prof-joseph-veverka-to-talk-about-stardust-next.html Stardust-NExT: NASA's most traveled comet hunter! Professor Joseph Veverka of Cornell University will speak at the 11/17/11 Colloquium (4:00PM, Room 105, Space Sciences Bldg., Cornell University)... Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/colloquium-speaker-prof-joseph-veverka-to-talk-about-stardust-next.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/mars-missions.html Failure Common Among Mars Missions (Timeline) SPACE.com Staff According to the Russian Federal Space Agency, mission controllers have a roughly two-week window to rescue the Phobos-Grunt spacecra... Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/mars-missions.html http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/61-1.html An asteroid the size of a city block will zoom by Earth inside the orbit of the moon today (Nov. 8), but it poses no danger of smashing into our planet, scientists say. The asteroid 2005... Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://astro.cornell.edu/news/story/61-1.html