Space News for July 5, 1999

By Fraser Cain - July 5, 1999 at 12:43 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Hubble Views Globular Star Cluster
The Hubble Space Telescope was recently directed at the M80 globular star cluster, located 28,000 light years from earth, and containing hundreds of thousands of stars. It appears that large stars regularly collide within the cluster.

Astronomy Now

SETI@home Releases Update
Nearing 750,000 users, SETI@home has just released a minor upgrade to its software. The upgrade fixes a few bugs, and problems with some firewalls. Volunteers on the project have donated a total of 20,000 years of computing time, and it's expected the number of downloads will cross 1,000,000 within a month.

MSNBC

NASA Explains Recent Failed Space Station Maneuver
In a letter to Congress, NASA administrator Dan Goldin explained that the recent attempt to maneuver the International Space Station around a piece of space junk failed because of faulty parameters uploaded from mission control.

SpaceViews Space Central

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.