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Red Moon: Lunar eclipse makes memorable solsticeWashington (AFP) Dec 21, 2010 Skygazers with a clear view in North America and Europe were greeted with a celestial treat in the early morning hours Tuesday, as a unique total lunar eclipse transformed the Moon pink, coppery or even a blood red. Coinciding eerily with the northern hemisphere's mid-winter solstice - for the first time in almost four centuries - the eclipse showed the Sun, the Earth and its satellite as they directly aligned, with the Moon swinging into the cone of shadow cast by its mother planet. Despite b ... read more |
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China advances crewed lunar mission with lander landing and takeoff trial
Hera spacecraft tests asteroid tracking with distant Otero and Kellyday observations
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  NASA Discovers Asteroid Delivered Assortment Of Meteorites An international team of scientists studying remnants of an asteroid that crashed into the Nubian Desert in October 2008 discovered it contained at least 10 different types of meteorites. Some of th ... more | .. |
  Citizen Scientists Join Search For Earth-Like Planets Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters. Planet Hun ... more | .. |
  NASA's arsenic life-form scientist answers critics The NASA-funded scientist whose discovery of a bacterium that thrives on arsenic prompted an avalanche of criticism responded Thursday with a statement answering questions about her research. ... more | .. |
  Total Lunar Eclipse: 'Up All Night' With NASA The December holiday sky show doesn't stop with the Geminid meteor shower - this year, the moon is also bringing a holiday gift. In the very early morning of December 21, or late night of December 2 ... more |
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  Voyager Crosses Point Of Solar Stillness The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar ... more | .. |
 Solstice Lunar Eclipse Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below." That is, except during a lunar eclipse. The luster will be a bit "off" on Dec. 21 ... more | .. |
 NASA's LRO Creating Unprecedented Topographic Map Of Moon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape. "This dataset is being used t ... more | .. |
  Hubble Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament A delicate sphere of gas, photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space. The pristine shell, or bubble, is the result of gas that is being shocked by the expa ... more |
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  Light Dawns On Dark Gamma-ray Bursts Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic events in the Universe, but some appear curiously faint in visible light. The biggest study to date of these so-called dark gamma-ray bursts, using the ... more | .. |
 Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying t ... more | .. |
  Hot Plasma Explosions Inflate Saturn's Magnetic Field A new analysis based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a causal link between mysterious, periodic signals from Saturn's magnetic field and explosions of hot ionized gas, known as plasma, ... more | .. |
 Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano On Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock. Topography and surface composition data hav ... more |
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 Cyclone Lasting More Than Five Years Is Detected On Saturn Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have been monitoring a cyclone on Saturn for more than five years. This makes it the longest-lasting cyclone detected to date on any o ... more | .. |
 Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. "This meteorite formed when two asteroids collided," said Dr. ... more | .. |
  Solar Scientists Discover Physical Mechanism Behind Sympathetic Flares A serendipitous alignment of high-powered spaceborne solar instruments has finally provided the data allowing scientists to uncover the physical mechanism behind so-called "sympathetic flares" on th ... more | .. |
 IBEX Makes First-Ever Images Of Magnetotail Structures Invisible to the naked eye, yet massive in structure around the Earth is the magnetosphere, the region of space around the planet that ebbs and flows in response to the million-mile-per-hour flow of ... more |
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NASA's arsenic-eating life form gets a second look Soon after NASA-funded researchers announced this month they had found a new life form that thrives on arsenic, critics took to the blogosphere with skeptical views and downright insults. ... more | .. |
 ESA Makes The Sun Available To Everyone New software developed by ESA makes available online to everyone, everywhere at anytime, the entire library of images from the SOHO solar and heliospheric observatory. Just download the viewer and b ... more | .. |
 Europe-sized cyclone batters Saturn for five years A whirlwind the size of Europe lashed Saturn for five years, becoming the longest-lasting cyclone ever seen on the Solar System's great planets, scientists reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Planetary Family Portrait Reveals Another Exoplanet An international team of astronomers has discovered a fourth giant planet, HR 8799e, outside our solar system. The new planet joins the three planets that were the subjects of the first-ever images ... more |
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 Voyager spacecraft nears exit of solar system The US space agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the outer edge of the solar system where wind from the Sun is no longer blowing outward, but sideways, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 Qatar-Led International Team Finds Its First Alien World In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new ali ... more | .. |
 India's solar mission moving ahead India's Solar Mission, aimed at generating 20,000 megawatts of solar power in the country over the next decade, has generated a positive response since it was launched in January, a government agency said. ... more | .. |
 Research Points To Better Understanding Of Carbon In Comets Using a comet as a far-flung laboratory, a Planetary Science Institute researcher has shown that the ionization lifetime of carbon is much shorter than what is currently used in calculations by come ... more |
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