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NASA is scheduled to launch an orbiting X-ray satellite on Wednesday, June 13, that will open a new window on the universe, allowing scientists to probe the roiling edges of black holes, exploding stars and the smallest, most frequent flares on the sun. UC Berkeley scientists and engineers helped build the instruments, will operate the satellite, and will analyze the data from supernova explosions.
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Pioneering space physicist Kinsey Anderson has died at 85
June 29, 2012:
Kinsey A. Anderson, a professor emeritus of physics and an international leader in the field now called space physics, died June 11, 2012, at the age of 85.
Space Sciences Lab learns more about colorful auroras
April 17, 2012:
Using high resolution satellite imagery, scientists at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory are learning more about how the aurora borealis, or the “Northern Lights,” move across the sky. SSL physicist Chris Chaston tells Inside Science TV that, because of increasing activity on the sun, next year the colorful light show may be visible as far south as Minnesota.
Out of THEMIS, ARTEMIS: Earth’s loss is moon’s gain
October 27, 2010:
Two of the five probes in the THEMIS mission have been redirected toward new orbits around the moon, extending UC Berkeley’s study of the earth and moon’s interaction with the solar wind. The new mission, dubbed ARTEMIS, began science operations Oct. 21 when the second of the two probes entered a parking orbit on the Earth-facing side of the moon.
