In 1999, it deployed the powerful Chandra X-ray space telescope, with the first female commander at the helm, Eileen Collins.
Facilities include 30 in-patient beds, a midwifery-led maternity unit, a minor injury unit and X-ray and space for mobile scanners.
Now, an international team of astronomers has trained the Fermi space-based gamma ray telescope on V407 Cygni, a "binary" system comprising a white dwarf star and a red giant companion, 9, 000 light-years away.
Many Americans recognize the unsurpassed science and inspiration that have come from the Hubble Space Telescope over the past two decades, as well as from its less famous sister satellites like the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space (Infrared) Telescope and the Fermi gamma-ray observatory.
Measurements undertaken with two space-based X-ray telescopes imaged the black hole at the centre of galaxy NGC 1365.
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The observations from the Chandra space telescope are the deepest X-ray images ever obtained, viewing events that are 10 billion light-years away.
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Chimera architecture removes those boundaries by providing the power to conduct nearly 100 billion mathematical operations per second to perform image processing, using computational techniques used in X-ray CT scanners, deep space telescopes and spy satellites.
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X-ray telescopes have to be put into space.
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New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said investigators would scour the space for possible human remains.
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The loop was seen using the European space telescope XMM-Newton to study it in X-ray wavelengths.
INTEGRAL, the International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, was designed by the European Space Agency to replace Compton.
The cosmic ray particle physics detector was carried to the International Space Station on the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour and installed under NASA direction.
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Perhaps some of the ultra-lean approaches described by leading early-stage VCs like David Grainger (blog here) of Index Ventures and Bruce Booth (blog here) of Atlas will prove out, and introduce at least a ray of optimism into this vital but existentially challenged space.
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They cleared enough salary cap space during the losing years to acquire veteran stars Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen for the 2007-08 season.
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Early results from Schaefer's study of the movements of gamma-ray bursts suggest that dark energy is different far out in space, and therefore way back in time.
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The work was reported in mid-October by Jay Norris, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the Fifth Huntsville (Alabama) Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium.
Determined to achieve the very best home entertainment presentation, the April AVATAR Blu-ray and DVD release features the film and corresponding menu, utilizing the disc's entire storage space in order to provide the highest quality optimal picture and sound.
It's now set for launch in 2017, when it will be joined by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an addition to the International Space Station also selected as part of the Explorer program last week that will use a process called X-ray timing to study neutron stars.
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