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Gamma-ray burst reveals death of a star and birth of something big

March 19, 2003

Milky Way monster stars in cosmic reality show

January 8, 2003

Scientists catch their first elusive 'dark' gamma-ray burst

January 8, 2003

Chandra image made from the longest observation yet of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center and the surrounding region. Almost daily outbursts of X-rays from the gas around the black hole were observed. Also discovered were huge lobes of 20 million-degree Centigrade gas which indicate that enormous explosions occurred near the black hole several times over the last ten thousand years...

Milky Way monster stars in cosmic reality show

January 7, 2003

Scientists catch their first elusive 'dark' gamma-ray burst

December 23, 2002

David Shoemaker, director of the LIGO Laboratory at the Center for Space Research, poses in the lab.

Gravity-wave search produces initial data

October 30, 2002

MIT Lincoln Laboratory names asteroids for top kids, teachers

October 22, 2002

Scientists race to observe fading burst found by MIT satellite

October 9, 2002

Mauna Kea Observatory: (Left to right): Subaru Telescope, twin domes of the Keck Telescopes, and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, which was used by Jim Elliot and Kelly Clancy during the occultation.

Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find

October 9, 2002

Mars travel explored at MIT conference

October 9, 2002

Scientists around the globe race to observe fading gamma-ray burst found by MIT satellite

October 8, 2002

Doeleman

Virtual telescope provides pinpoint views of the cosmos

October 2, 2002

Shep Doeleman

New virtual telescope will give sharpest views of the cosmos

September 30, 2002

Researcher Steven Slivan displays a model he made to explain the orientation of asteroids.

Slivan finds asteroid 'siblings' oddly grouped by orientation

September 25, 2002

Researcher Stephen Slivan displays a model he made to explain the orientation of asteroids.

Groups of asteroid siblings spin differently

September 19, 2002