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October 2006
Hubble payload
NASA announces a servicing mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Irene Klotz
Published: October 31, 2006
Sunrise on Mauna Kea
Hawaiian observatories assess damage and repair telescopes following October 15 earthquakes.
Kate Meredith
Published: October 30, 2006
Folio magazine honors Astronomy in "Enthusiast (Art, Hobbies and Crafts)" category.
Katie Neubauer
Published: October 30, 2006
Spirit panorama
NASA celebrates the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's 1,000th day on the Red Planet.
By Jeremy McGovern
Published: October 26, 2006
STEREO launch
The twin spacecraft STEREO A and B will provide scientists with a 3-D view of the Sun.
By Tracy Staedter
Published: October 26, 2006
HD 141569A
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have observed a young star maturing.
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: October 25, 2006
MRO
New Mexico Tech's Magdalena Ridge Observatory will hunt for small bodies throughout the solar system.
Provided by New Mexico Tech, Socorro
Published: October 23, 2006
3-D Relief Map of Chicxulub Crater
New research suggests multiple impacts from space, volcanoes, and climate changes on Earth caused dinosaurs' extinction.
Provided by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado
Published: October 21, 2006
Methanogens
A study of extreme microbes on Earth suggests life can develop mechanisms to withstand freezing temperatures like those on Mars.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: October 20, 2006
Andromeda and M32
Infrared observations of the Andromeda Galaxy show it collided with dwarf galaxy M32 some 200 million years ago.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: October 19, 2006
Node 2
As U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts prepare to head to space, NASA gives school children a chance to name a space-station component.
By Jeremy McGovern
Published: October 19, 2006
Lunar south pole
Despite earlier hints of ice at the lunar poles, scientists' latest search comes up empty.
Provided by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Published: October 19, 2006
Brahin, Minsk, Gomel Province, Belarus
Meteorite hunters use interplanetary technology to locate a rare space-fall in Kansas.
By Michael E. Bakich
Published: October 18, 2006
Antennae galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured merging galaxies that produce stellar birth.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: October 17, 2006
Mauna Kea
Hawaii earthquakes temporarily shake up the world's largest optical telescopes.
By Francis Reddy
Published: October 17, 2006
Element 118
Colliding ions create the heaviest element yet found.
By Francis Reddy
Published: October 16, 2006
Saturn's rings
Cassini has imaged evidence of a comet or meteoroid impact in Saturn's D ring.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: October 13, 2006
Exoplanet
For the first time, scientists have directly measured day and night temperatures on a planet outside our solar system.
By Laura Layton
Published: October 12, 2006
Neptune
Research by Tristan Guillot of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in Nice, France, provides new insights into the composition of giant planets.
Provided by Observatoire de la Cote D' Azur, France
Published: October 12, 2006
George Smoot
A cosmic "baby picture" earns the chief architects of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer the year's top physics prize.
By Francis Reddy
Published: October 5, 2006
SWEEPS
Researchers identify 16 new exoplanet candidates in Hubble Space Telescope images ? and a new class of exoplanets.
By Jeremy McGovern
Published: October 4, 2006
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