Teleskop Subaru poluchaet snimki zvezdnoi kolybeli
18.02.2001 23:53 | scientific.ru

S pomosh'yu teleskopa Subaru, prinadlezhashego Nacional'noi astronomicheskoi observatorii Yaponii, udalos' poluchit' chetkie i detal'nye infrakrasnye izobrazheniya oblasti zvezdoobrazovaniya S106. Analiz poluchennyh snimkov, sdelannyi Yumiko Oasa (Yumiko Oasa) dlya ee dissertacii, vyyavil mnozhestvo malomassivnyh ob'ektov.

Ctanciya NEAR uspeshno sela na poverhnost' asteroida Eros
13.02.2001 0:00 | scientific.ru

Kosmicheskaya stanciya NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, NASA), kotoraya pochti god, s 14.02.2000, obrashalas' po orbite vokrug asteroida Eros, byla perevedena na bolee blizkuyu orbitu i zatem posazhena na asteroid.

Ostryi gamma-glaz HETE-2 nachinaet rabotu
31.01.2001 0:00 | I. E. Panchenko/GAISh, Moskva

V fevrale 2001 goda nachinaet svoyu regulyarnuyu rabotu sputnik HETE-2 (High-Energy Transient Explorer). On byl zapushen 9 oktyabrya proshlogo goda raketoi Pegasus. s samoleta L-1011. V hode rabot po testirovaniyu i nastroike bortovyh sistem HETE-2 uzhe obnaruzhil shest' gamma-vspleskov.

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Okonchatel'no poteryana svyaz' s mezhplanetnoi stanciei "Pioner-10"
29.01.2001 0:00 | Astronet

Specialisty NASA poteryali svyaz' s mezhplanetnoi stanciei "Pioner-10", soobshaet "Efir-daidzhest" (www.vor.ru/Efir_Daigest/index.html) so ssylkoi na radio "Eho Moskvy". Za 28 let prebyvaniya v kosmose, stanciya uletela ot Zemli na rasstoyanie v 11 milliardov kilometrov. Vosstanovit' svyaz' s "Pionerom-10" uchenye uzhe ne nadeyutsya.