Voyager 1 Enters Interstellar Medium
Sep 16, 2013
NASA has confirmed in a press conference last week that the Voyager 1 spacecraft is believed to have entered the Interstellar Medium. Dr. Gary Zank, Director of CSPAR, was one of four scientific experts present at the NASA presentation to c...
NASA chooses UAH for cosmic ray study
Mar 12, 2013
From AL.com: "A team from the University of Alabama in Huntsville will be helping NASA answer one of science's most pressing questions: How do cosmic accelerators work and what are they accelerating?" Read more here. ...
ScienceCasts: Dark Lightning
Jan 10, 2013
Dr. Valerie Connaughton was featured in this ScienceCast YouTube video about a Fermi satellite that detected antimatter coming from thunderstorms right here on Earth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN0wGga5e0I ...
NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun's Corona
Sep 12, 2012
A NASA telescope project, completed with the cooperation of UAH, has succeeded in providing new high quality images of the sun's corona. ...
Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
May 25, 2012
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly GLAST, was launched on June 11, 2008. Fermi instruments, the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM).CSPAR scientists are part of the team that designed, built and operate one of the two F...