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December 29, 2010
SOLAR SCIENCE
Space weather: Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
Paris (AFP) Dec 29, 2010
The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence. Many people may be surprised to learn that the Sun, rather than burn with faultless consistency, goes through moments of calm and tempest. But two centuries of observing sunspots - dark, relatively cool marks on the solar face linked to mighty magnetic forces - have revealed that our star follows a roughly 11-ye ... read more

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TIME AND SPACE

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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views Of Rhea
Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, rev ... more
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EXO WORLDS

First Super-Earth Atmosphere Analyzed
The atmosphere around a super-Earth exoplanet has been analyzed for the first time by an international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope. The planet, which is known as GJ 12 ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Italy to build accelerator with U.S. parts
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MOON DAILY

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
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 8: Christmas At The Moon
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SATURN DAILY

DLR Researchers Compile Atlas Of Saturn's Moon Rhea, An Icy Alien World
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center have compiled an atlas of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, which has been published by NASA. The atlas includes a number of high-resolution images and a ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA-NSF Scientific Balloon Launches From Antarctica
NASA and the National Science Foundation launched a scientific balloon on Monday, Dec. 20, to study the effects of cosmic rays on Earth. It was the first of five scientific balloons scheduled to lau ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Awards First Half-Million Order In Lunar Data Contract
NASA has awarded the initial half-million-dollar task order from a $10 million NASA contract to Astrobotic Technology for a robotic expedition to the Moon. "The amazingly short turnaround betw ... more
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TECH SPACE

Motorola Mobility buys cloud storage firm Zecter
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The Universe's Most Massive Stars Can Form In Near Isolation
New observations by University of Michigan astronomers add weight to the theory that the most massive stars in the universe could form essentially anywhere, including in near isolation; they don't n ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

How Often Do Giant Black Holes Become Hyperactive
A new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory tells scientists how often the biggest black holes have been active over the last few billion years. The object could help scientists better underst ... more
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IRON AND ICE

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
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid's Coat Of Many Colors
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EXO WORLDS

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
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ECLIPSES

Lunar eclipse makes memorable solstice
Skygazers with a clear view in North America and Europe were greeted with a celestial treat early Tuesday, as a unique total lunar eclipse turned the Moon pink, coppery or even a blood red. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
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SPACE TRAVEL

Voyager Crosses Point Of Solar Stillness
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MOON DAILY

Total Lunar Eclipse: 'Up All Night' With NASA
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ECLIPSES

A Busy Day On The Celestial Calendar
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ECLIPSES

Solstice Lunar Eclipse
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SPACE SCOPES

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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SATURN DAILY

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
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DEEP IMPACT

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
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Light Dawns On Dark Gamma-ray Bursts
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