Universe Today - September 19, 1999

Universe Today - September 19, 1999

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September 19th, 1999 - Issue #98
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-- UNIVERSE TODAY STORY SUMMARY --

* Engineers Find a Problem With Chandra
* Hubble Discovers Giant Star Clusters
* It's Official, Mir's Coming Down


ENGINEERS FIND A PROBLEM WITH CHANDRA
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Although it's responsible for the highest resolution X-ray images ever
produced, NASA technicians have found a glitch in one instrument: the
Advanced Charge-coupled Device Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). NASA
is performing diagnostic tests to determine cause of the problem
and to see if they can fix it.

http://www.astronomynow.com/breaking/9909/15chandra/index.html
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/15/chandra.trouble/index.html
http://www.spaceviews.com/1999/09/16b.html


HUBBLE DISCOVERS GIANT STAR CLUSTERS
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Recent observations using the Hubble Space Telescope have peered
into the galactic core of the Milky Way, and discovered massive
star clusters. Located only 100 light-years away from the very
center of the galaxy, and only 2-4 million years old, these clusters
contain some of the largest and brightest stars in the galaxy.

http://www.astronomynow.com/breaking/9909/16hubble/index.html
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/16/supermassive/index.html
http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/brief6.html?ct=37e44f16
http://explorezone.com/archives/99_09/17_hubble_galaxies.htm
http://origin.msnbc.com/news/284079.asp


IT'S OFFICIAL, MIR'S COMING DOWN
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Yuri Koptev, the Director-General of the Russian Space Agency has
announced that the Mir station will not be re-inhabited. Russia
can't afford the annual $250 million it would take to keep the
station operational, and so they expect it will return to Earth
sometime after March 2000.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_449000/449273.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/312496.asp

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