Universe Today - July 19, 2001 |
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the U N I V E R S E T O D A Y Space Exploration News From Around the Internet Updated Every Weekday. July 19, 2001 - Issue #457 http://www.universetoday.com info@universetoday.com An HTML version including pictures is available at: http://www.universetoday.com/html/misc/today.html For information on unsubscribing or changing your email address, check the bottom of this newsletter. ************************************** A note from Fraser... Universe Today is now available in Spanish! CosmosNews has generously offered to translate Universe Today stories on a regular basis. Check it out at: http://www.cosmosnews.tuportal.com In other news, I think I've mentioned this before, but we've got one of Canada's few dark sky parks within an hour's drive of my house. The organizers were treated by the city of Abbotsford to an actual sign declaring McDonald Park as a "Dark Sky Preserve". Pretty cool. So, if you live in the Lower Mainland of BC (Canada), or you plan to visit Vancouver and its surroundings, pay a visit to our Dark Sky Preserve. http://www.fvas.net/dsp.html Finally, Pacific Works is having an Apollo XI party on Friday night. I'm not entirely sure what's going to happen, but they wanted to mention it. So, here's a link to the info. http://www.pacific-works.com/pw_events.htm Take care, Fraser Cain Publisher Universe Today ************************************** -- UNIVERSE TODAY STORY SUMMARY -- * Colliding Galaxies Create Star Clusters * Astronauts Fix Leak on Station * ESA Tries to Save Stranded Satellite COLLIDING GALAXIES CREATE STAR CLUSTERS ------------------------- New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show how two galaxies sideswiping each other can create multiple star clusters - the birthplaces of new stars. This latest image of a group of galaxies called the Stephan's Quintet, whose interactions are constantly creating these star clusters. Astronomers didn't know the age of the clusters, until they looked at them with Hubble, and found they were 2 million to 1 billion years old depending on how far they were from the collision areas. Original Source: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2001/22/index.html Internet Coverage: http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/07/19/hubble.galaxies/index.html http://www.cosmiverse.com/space07190105.html http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/hubble_stephans_010719.html http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0107/19hststephen/ Similar Stories: http://www.universetoday.com/html/topics/hubble.html Related Sites: http://www.universetoday.com/html/directory/astronomy.html Related Books: http://www.universetoday.com/html/books/hubble.html ASTRONAUTS FIX LEAK ON STATION ------------------------- Astronauts on board the International Space Station fixed a pressure leak between the station and its newly installed air lock on Thursday. To fix the leak, the astronauts had to borrow a spare latch from another part of the station that won't be needed for another 2 years - long enough for NASA to send up another replacement. The new air lock will get its trial run on Friday, when astronauts Michael Gernhardt and James Reilly go on their final spacewalk of the mission to complete the installation. Original Source: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/sts104/STS-104-15.html Internet Coverage: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010716/station3.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/598045.asp http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/sts104_am_010719-1.html http://spaceflightnow.com/station/status.html Similar Stories: http://www.universetoday.com/html/topics/shuttle.html Related Sites: http://www.universetoday.com/html/directory/nasa.html Related Books: http://www.universetoday.com/html/books/spaceshuttle.html ESA TRIES TO SAVE STRANDED SATELLITE ------------------------- After last week's botched Ariane 5 launch, the European Space Agency is working to recover the Artemis satellite which was placed into a botched orbit. The $850 million satellite was supposed to be in a geosynchronous orbit above the equator, but now it will need to use most of its propellant to raise its own orbit the remaining amount. Engineers don't know how long the communications satellite will be able to maintain its orbit, but they don't believe it will last for more than a few years - far short of its 10 year expected lifetime. Original Source: http://www.esa.it/export/esaCP/ESAIXJ0VMOC_index_0.html Internet Coverage: http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_space.jsp?view=story&id=news/sesa0719.xml http://www.space.com/spacenews/europe/artemis_071901.html Similar Stories: http://www.universetoday.com/html/topics/satellites.html Related Sites: http://www.universetoday.com/html/directory/satellites.html Related Books: http://www.universetoday.com/html/books/satellites.html ------------------------- To unsubscribe from this newsletter, just reply with only the subject line "UNSUBSCRIBE !*EMAIL*!". If you just want to change your address, just reply to this email with a quick note on what your old and new email addresses are. 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