Nov 13 1992
From The Space Library
NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had revealed a chain of luminous knots in the core of the most distant known galaxy-one that existed in the infancy of the universe and is located more than 10 billion light-years from Earth. The new photos, taken with the telescope's wide field and planetary camera, reveal detail 10 times better than photographs previously taken with ground-based telescopes. (NASA Release 92-203; W Times, Nov 14/92)
A team of American and British astronomers detected the flare of a super-nova almost halfway to the edge of the known universe-five billion light-years away, the most distant such supernova ever observed. Light from the supernova was expected to help astronomers grapple with the questions of whether the universe is infinite and will expand forever or whether it is finite and will eventually slow down and collapse. (NY Times, Nov 15/92)
NASA announced the selection of 321 research proposals for immediate negotiation of Phase I contracts under the Agency's 1992 Small Business Innovation Research Program. The program aims to stimulate technological innovation in the United States by using small business to help meet Federal research and development needs and to encourage commercial applications of federally supported research innovations. (NASA Release 92-204)
Jan H. Oort, 92, whose discoveries on the origins of comets and the movement of the Milky Way made him one of the 20th century's leading astronomers, died in Leiden, Holland, in early November. (W Times, Nov 13/92; P Inq, Nov 13/92)
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