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January 05, 2011
SOLAR SCIENCE
Seeing Through The Layers Of The Sun
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 05, 2011
One can virtually peer through layers of the Sun to see different kinds of features using images taken at almost the same time (Dec. 19, 2010). Each STEREO spacecraft images the Sun in four wavelengths of extreme UV light. People cannot see UV light, but carefully designed instruments can. Frames from each wavelength are colorized so that scientists know instantly which wavelength they are observing. And each wavelength is imaging different material at different layers and temperatures. ... read more

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Smithsonian Instrument Fills The Gap
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SKY NIGHTLY

Another Space Shot From UA Astronomer
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MOON DAILY

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ECLIPSES

Partial solar eclipse observed in Europe
Sky watchers in Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East observed a partial solar eclipse Tuesday, the first of the New Year, astronomers said. ... more
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ECLIPSES

Four Solar, Two Moon Eclipses To Take Place In 2011
Earthlings will have a chance to observe four solar and two total moon eclipses in 2011. The first solar eclipse will take place on January 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible fr ... more
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EXO WORLDS

The Final Frontier
Although Gliese 581g is the most Earthlike planet to be discovered to date, it's unclear whether the planet is habitable. Just because the planet is relatively similar in mass to Earth doesn't mean ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft has brought home to Earth tiny pieces of an alien world-asteroid Itokawa. "It's an incredible feeling to have another world righ ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Since Jupiter Encounter
Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet in our so ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Astrobiology Top 10: Close Encounter With Comet Hartley 2
NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft flew past comet Hartley 2 yesterday (November 4), at a distance of about 700 kilometers (435 miles). Although the spacecraft's encounter was brief - it raced by the c ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

A Galaxy For Everyone
This collage of galaxies from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the many "flavors" that galaxies come in, from star-studded spirals to bulging ellipticals to those paire ... more
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EXO LIFE

Did Life Fall from the Skies? Lessons from Titan
In sci-fi movies, the first stirrings of life happen in a gooey pool of primordial ooze. But new research suggests the action started instead in the stormy skies above. The idea sprang from re ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

SORCE's Solar Spectral Surprise
Two satellite instruments aboard NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission - the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) - have made daily mea ... more
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EXO LIFE

Astrobiology Top 10: Viking Results Revisited
Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of l ... more
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IRON AND ICE

SOHO Spots 2000th Comet
As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New Year, an ESA/NASA spacecraft has quietly reached its own milestone: on December 26, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (S ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Space weather: Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
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. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Orbiting junk seen as major space threat
Thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth orbit now rival weapons as a threat to the future peaceful use of space, a U.S. researcher says. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

When the Black Hole Was Born
Most galaxies in the universe, including our own Milky Way, harbor super-massive black holes varying in mass from about one million to about 10 billion times the size of our sun. To find them, ... more
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EXO LIFE

Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon
The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia's leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Italy to build accelerator with U.S. parts
Italy says it plans to build a $525 million particle accelerator using parts from a defunct American atom smasher. ... more
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GPS NEWS
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Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body

Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place

Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show

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Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return

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SOHO Spots 2000th Comet

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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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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
Christmas Eve, 1968. As one of the most turbulent, tragic years in American history drew to a close, millions around the world were watching and listening as the Apollo 8 astronauts - Frank Borman, ... more
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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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TECH SPACE

Motorola Mobility buys cloud storage firm Zecter
Motorola Mobility said Wednesday that it has acquired Zecter, a startup that provides storage and streaming of digital media over the Internet. ... 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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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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