Hubble: Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image [heic0715]

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:00:00 UT
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way, thus supplying a prime template for star formation studies.

Cassini-Huygens: Titan Flyby - 2 October 2007

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:39:00 UT
Thirty-two days after Cassini's last flyby, the spacecraft revisits Titan for its thirty-seventh targeted encounter: Titan-36. The closest approach to the Saturnian moon occurs on Tuesday, 2 October, at 04:42:43 UT at an altitude of 975 kilometres above the surface and at a speed of 6.3 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 60° S and the encounter occurs on orbit number 50.

Hipparcos: A New Reduction of the Hipparcos Catalogues

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:30:00 UT
ESA's Hipparcos mission provided astrometric data on thousands of stars. Thanks to advances in computational processing power it has been possible to revisit the original data and improve the accuracy of the derived catalogue.

Herschel: Herschel's Cryostat and Service Module Mated

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:37:00 UT
During the course of the past few months the integration of the Herschel spacecraft has taken place at the Astrium facility in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Conferences: IAU Symposium No. 248
A Giant Step: from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry [Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:00:00 UT]

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:07:00 UT
This meeting is expectedto summarize the advances in the past decade which can be characterized by substantial changes in the fundamental yet rapidly advancing science of astrometry to highlight the astonishing achievements of astrometry and its applications to astronomy in the coming decade to facilitate the communication and collaboration between ground- and space-based astrometry, various techniques and wavelengths to consider the future developments beyond 2020

INTEGRAL: Five Years of INTEGRAL [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:00:00 UT]

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:17:00 UT
Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the launch of INTEGRAL, this three-day workshop celebrates the successful gamma-ray mission. A wide range of topics is covered and the mission achievements to date are addressed at the informal workshop.

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