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NASA Spacecraft Burns For Another Comet FlybyPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2010 Eighty-six days out from its appointment with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet Tempel 1 next Valentine's Day (Feb. 14, 2011). It will perform NASA's second comet flyby within four months. "One comet down, one to go," said Tim Larson, project manager for both the Stardust-NExT mission and the EPOXI mission - which successfully flew past comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. The trajectory correction mane ... read more |
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 Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2 NASA has just issued a travel advisory for spacecraft: Watch out for Comet Hartley 2, it is experiencing a significant winter snowstorm. Deep Impact photographed the unexpected tempest when it ... more |
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 Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in ... more | .. |
 Pushing Black-Hole Mergers To The Extreme Scientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This extreme mass ratio of 100:1 breaks a barri ... more |
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  The International Space Weather Initiative Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, more than a hundred researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance: storms from the s ... more | .. |
 Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dust A Japanese deep-space probe became the first ever to collect asteroid dust during a seven-year voyage that ended with its return to Earth over the Australian desert this year, Japan said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
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 Ikeya-Murakami: The New Comet On The Cosmic Block The animation below shows the motion of Comet Ikeya-Murakami on Nov. 13, 2010, captured with a New Mexico-based telescope operated remotely by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The images w ... more | .. |
 Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space Scientists involved with the first space mission attempting to sample asteroid surface material and return to Earth, have confirmed presence of particles collected from a small container aboard the ... more | .. |
 Antimatter Atoms Produced And Trapped At CERN The ALPHA experiment at CERN has taken an important step forward in developing techniques to understand one of the Universe's open questions: is there a difference between matter and antimatter? In ... more | .. |
 Antihydrogen Trapped For First Time Physicists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have succeeded in trapping antihydrogen - the antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom - a miles ... more |
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First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy A hot, gaseous and fast-spinning planet has been found orbiting a dying star on the edge of the Milky Way, in the first such discovery of a planet from outside our galaxy, scientists said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems That Might Explode Sometimes when you're looking for one thing, you find something completely different and unexpected. In the scientific endeavor, such serendipity can lead to new discoveries. Today, researchers who ... more | .. |
 Most Particles In Hayabusa Explorer's Capsule Originate From Asteroid An analysis of some 1,500 particles found in the Hayabusa explorer's capsule revealed that most of them originated from rocks on the asteroid Itokawa, according to the Japanese science and technolog ... more | .. |
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 Linking Geometric Problems To Physics Could Open Door To New Solutions A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to ... more | .. |
 Yihua Zheng: A New Breed Of Weather Forecaster It is 11:15 a.m. on a Friday morning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and time for Yihua Zheng's daily check on the sun. She walks from her small office down the hall to the C ... more | .. |
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 Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity ... more |
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