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  • Universe History graphic NSF
    From The Verge: The first observation of the earliest stars in the Universe suggests they were forming about 180 million years after the Big Bang. The radio signal used to make this observation, though indirect, backs up some theoretical models
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    From Nature: The first stars to form generated copious fluxes of ultraviolet radiation that suffused the early Universe 鈥 a phenomenon referred to as the cosmic dawn. Many calculations have been performed to estimate when this occurred, but no
  • Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe
    From the BBC: Scientists say they have observed a signature on the sky from the very first stars to shine in the Universe. They did it with the aid of a small radio telescope in the Australian outback that was tuned to detect the earliest
  • Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe
    From 精品SM在线影片 Today: For the first time, astronomers have detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe. Using a radio antenna not much larger than a refrigerator, the researchers discovered that ancient suns were active within
  • SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket
    From Popular Mechanics: The Federal Aviation Administration issued a Commercial Space Transportation License on Friday, February 2. It reads: Space Exploration Technologies is authorized to conduct: (i) A flight of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle
  • Seniors Benjamin Mellinkoff, left, and Matthew Spydell are getting their robot arm to work in their lab at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus on Wednesday.
    From the Daily Camera: University of Colorado Professor Jack Burns leads a laboratory on campus that he describes as a mash-up between Silicon Valley and the space program with the help of two undergraduate students he deemed "the next space
  • An artist's rendition of NASA's Orion spacecraft as well as its proposed Deep Space Gateway, a crew-tended spaceport in lunar orbit that could support surface operations on the moon. Credit: NASA
    From Scientific American: MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.鈥擡arth鈥檚 nearest neighbor, the moon, is far from being a 鈥渂een there, done that鈥 world in space science and exploration. That鈥檚 the message from scientists and engineers at NASA鈥檚 Lunar Science for
  • CU Students work on telerobotics
    From 精品SM在线影片 Today: Humans have already been to the moon鈥攁nd will likely return鈥攂ut engineering undergraduates Benjamin Mellinkoff and Matthew Spydell have their eyes set on an even bigger challenge: helping humans explore the entire
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    Bang Nhan, a Ph.D. candidate at 精品SM在线影片 was one of 6 students to receive the American Astronomical Society鈥檚 Honorable Mention Chambliss Prize. He received this acknowledgement based upon the quality of his dissertation research. Bang鈥檚
  • Far side of the Moon from LRO mission
    From Nature: Plans to return to the Moon are getting serious. Last month, US President Donald Trump declared that the next time US astronauts blast off, they will be headed to our rocky satellite. In September, the European Space Agency made its
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