"The Magellan Planet Search Program is a ground based extrasolar planet search device which began gathering data in December 2002. It utilizes the MIKE echelle spectrograph mounted on the Magellan Telescopes which are twin, 6.5m Magellan II (Clay) telescope located within the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.[1][2]"
NASA will host a news conference for the next crew launching to the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, on Thursday, Sept. 24, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA Television will broadcast the news conference live at 2 p.m. EDT, preceded by video of crew training at 1:30 p.m.
Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that the space-time around Earth would be not only warped but also twisted by the planet's rotation. Gravity Probe B showed this to be correct.Credit: NASA In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers.
The AstroWeb database of resource records is maintained by the members of the AstroWeb Consortium, at seven institutions:CDS (André Heck, Daniel Egret)MSSSO (Anton Koekemoer at MSSSO and at STScI)NRAO (Don Wells)WWW-VL (La Plata) (Sergio Paoli)ST-ECF (Hans-Martin Adorf, Fionn Murtagh)STScI (Bob Jackson)VILSPA (Jose Daniel Ponz)