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Twilight Sky Show On Sunday »
Posted by: pleeplop 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
On Sunday evening, April 26, the crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster will gather for a three-way conjunction in the western sky. It ...
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Hubble Captures Peanut-Shaped Stellar Explosion »
Posted by: pleeplop 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), an international team of astronomers have taken the first optical images of a dramatic stellar outburst and ...
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Chopra Appointed America’s First Technology Advisor »
Posted by: dantecali 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
On Saturday, President Obama announced that the Harvard graduate, Indian-American Aneesh Chopra will be the United State’s first Chief Technology Advisor – an appointment highly ...
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Project Reveals Super Active Orion Nebula »
Posted by: dantecali 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, the IRAM Millimeter-wave Telescope in Spain, and the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a ...
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Could Dead Suns Harbor Solar Systems? »
Posted by: dantecali 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that at least 1 in 100 white dwarf stars show evidence of ...
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Plans For Universal Electric Car Plug Unveiled »
Posted by: dantecali 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Several large automotive and energy corporations have reached an agreement on a universal " plug" that would recharge electric cars, announced German energy company RWE on ...
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Ridges On Saturn’s Moon May Have Formed As Spinning Slowed »
Posted by: pleeplop 8 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers have theorized that the unexplained terrain on one of Saturn's icy moons might have happened when the moon went from a relatively fast-spinning ...
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LCROSS Heads To Florida For Launch - Space - redOrbit »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is enroute from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's ...
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NASA's Swift Spies Comet Lulin »
Posted by: pleeplop 9 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 1 week 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, 1 week 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 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 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 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 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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