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NASA's Swift Spies Comet Lulin »
Posted by: pleeplop 10 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
While waiting for high-energy outbursts and cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite is monitoring Comet Lulin as it closes on Earth. For the ...
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Obama Budget Offers NASA More Backing »
Posted by: pleeplop 10 months ago in News
The plan gives the U.S. space agency $18.7 billion, an increase of $2.4 billion from 2008, to research climates change and space ...
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The Future Of Astronomy Looks Bright »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
To mark UNESCO's International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), six leading astronomers from the UK, the US, Europe and Asia write in March's Physics ...
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Hubble's View of Hickson Compact Group 90 »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The Hubble Space Telescope shows us what happens when a trio of galaxies mixes it up in deep space. We start with a close-up look ...
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Mars Express And The Martian North Pole »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged the snow-laden region of Rupes Tenuis on the martian north pole on July 29, 2008.
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Mars Mountain Could Answer Big Question »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick ...
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Building a Clean Spacecraft Takes a Very Clean Room »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
This video is a behind the scenes tour of the Clean Room at NASA's jet propulsion laboratory and see the construction of NASA's ...
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Russia Reviews Bids For New Moon-Bound Space Rocket »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Russian space agency (Roscosmos) reported that the future rocket would be able to transport a payload three times heavier than Russia's veteran Soyuz ...
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Hubble Image Shows Four Saturn Moons »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
On February 24, 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent ...
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Spitzer Eyes 'Imminent Collision' Of Two Galaxies »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each ...
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Hubble Captures Four of Saturn's Moons in Transit: Mimas, Titan, Enceladus and Dione [video] »
Posted by: dantecali 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
This Hubble movie shows four of Saturn's moons moving across the face of their parent planet on February 24, 2009. Icy moons Enceladus and ...
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Discovery Docks With ISS, Crewmembers Get To Work »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 1 week ago in News
Space Shuttle Discovery successfully docked with the International Space Station at 4:20 p.m. Tuesday to prepare for the crew’s 13-day mission, which ...
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A small asteroid will fly past Earth early tomorrow morning (Wed., March 18) »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 1 week ago in News
A small asteroid will fly past Earth early tomorrow morning (Wed., March 18). The asteroid, 2009 FH, is about 50 feet (15 meters) wide. Its ...
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Astronauts Ready For 2nd Spacewalk »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The second spacewalk of the first space shuttle mission of the year begins today on board a space station with two new solar array wings ...
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ISS Spacewalkers Test Planetary Protection Concept »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
On March 19th, astronauts onboard the International Space Station checked themselves for microbes before stepping outside on a space walk. It was a first-ever test ...
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