Physics and Astronomy News Archive: November 2006

Image: NASA Announces a New Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope

NASA Announces a New Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope

Source: NASA   Posted: 11/13/06

Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013.
Image: New Hybrid Microscope Probes Nano-Electronics

New Hybrid Microscope Probes Nano-Electronics

Source: NIST   Posted: 11/13/06

A new form of scanning microscopy that simultaneously reveals physical and electronic profiles of metal nanostructures has been demonstrated at JILA.
Image: Ultrasound generates intense mechanoluminescence

Ultrasound generates intense mechanoluminescence

Source: UIUC   Posted: 11/13/06

Researchers have used high-intensity ultrasound in liquid slurries of sugar and other organic crystals to create mechanoluminescence up to 1,000 times more intense than from grinding.
Image: NASA Sees into the Eye of a Monster Storm on Saturn

NASA Sees into the Eye of a Monster Storm on Saturn

Source: JPL/NASA   Posted: 11/13/06

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.