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The Active Moons Of SaturnWashington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2010 Like midnight taggers, Saturn's moons Dione, Tethys, Mimas and Rhea may be spraying their unique signatures all over Saturn's environment when no one's looking. Or maybe not; they've never been caught in the act, unlike their sibling moon Enceladus, which has been repeatedly observed shooting a dramatic plume of ice vapor high above its surface. Other than Enceladus, there are just a few active moons in the solar system. Icy geysers shoot from the surface of Neptune's Triton and Jupiter's Io is wi ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Feb 11, 2010Amid a huge bounty of contraband goods seized recently at a Russian airport, one far-out find floored customs officials: chunks of meteorite. "On the customs declaration, the smugglers identified it as granite for construction and decoration of office space," Larisa Ledovskikh, a spokeswoman for customs at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, told AFP on Thursday. "But our officials could see it ... more  
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 12, 2010Every galaxy has a collection of black holes, regions that gobble up matter and energy and can each be up to 10 times the Sun's mass. In addition to these black holes, there is a supermassive black hole embedded in the heart of each galaxy that is roughly one million to one billion times the mass of the Sun. About 10 percent of these giant black holes feature jets of plasma, or highly ionized ga ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) hFeb 12, 2010Beginning Thursday, 11 February 2010, our Sun is being monitored round the clock - the space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V. The continuous stream of data supplied by this observatory will substantially improve our ability to forecast space weather. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is supporting this NASA-led mission with ... more |
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ESO: Orion In A New LightParis, France (SPX) Feb 11, 2010 The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO's new VISTA survey telescope. The telescope's huge field of view can show the full splendor of the whole nebula and VISTA's infrared vision also allows it to peer deeply into dusty regions that are normally hidden and expose the curious behavior of the very active young stars buried there. VISTA - the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy - is the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory. It is t ... read more |
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