Monday 23 November 2015

Ultrastable materials investigated in depth

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Thermal expansion has now been measured at low temperatures for future space missions. The results of the project are of importance for further space missions that have already been planned, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), for which temperatures of use below - 220 °C are planned, or the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), for which even lower temperatures of use are envisaged.
via Science Daily
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A 212-Hour Exposure of Orion

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Schiaparelli’s namesakes

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Space science image of the week: What do a 19th-century astronomer, an impact basin and a mission to Mars have in common?
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/11/On_the_rim_of_Schiaparelli_crater