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November 18, 2010
SKY NIGHTLY
WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen In Starry Sea
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2010
A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the cosmos - it's a dying star surrounded by fluorescing gas and two very unusual rings. "I am reminded of the jellyfish exhibition at the Monterey Bay Aquarium - beautiful things floating in water, except this one is in space," said Edward (Ned) Wright, the principal investigator of the WISE mission at UCLA, and a ... read more

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Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dust
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Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems That Might Explode
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Most Particles In Hayabusa Explorer's Capsule Originate From Asteroid
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DEEP IMPACT

How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year
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Linking Geometric Problems To Physics Could Open Door To New Solutions
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Yihua Zheng: A New Breed Of Weather Forecaster
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MOON DAILY

Mining On The Moon Is A Not-So-Distant Possibility
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Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole
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Antimatter Atoms Produced And Trapped At CERN
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Antihydrogen Trapped For First Time
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EXO WORLDS

Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien Worlds
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MOON DAILY

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SATURN DAILY

Saturn Then And Now: 30 Years Since Voyager Visit
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TECH SPACE

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SATURN DAILY

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TECH SPACE

EOS Welcomes Australian-US Partnership To Track Space Junk
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues To Galaxy Cluster Growth
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TIME AND SPACE

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Primordial Dry Ice Fuels Comet Jets
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