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Andromeda's Once And Future StarsParis, France (ESA) Jan 06, 2011 Two ESA observatories have combined forces to show the Andromeda Galaxy in a new light. Herschel sees rings of star formation in this, the most detailed image of the Andromeda Galaxy ever taken at infrared wavelengths, and XMM-Newton shows dying stars shining X-rays into space. During Christmas 2010, ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories targeted the nearest large spiral galaxy M31. This is a galaxy similar to our own Milky Way - both contain several hundred billion stars. This is the ... read more |
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 Andromeda Is So Hot 'n' Cold This mosaic of the Andromeda spiral galaxy highlights explosive stars in its interior, and cooler, dusty stars forming in its many rings. The image is a combination of observations from the He ... more | .. |
  New Images Indicate Tectonic Activity On Rhea Newly released 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, revealing a history o ... more | .. |
  Seeing Through The Layers Of The Sun 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 wa ... more | .. |
  Another Space Shot From UA Astronomer On the first day of the new year, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day published University of Arizona astronomer and astrophotographer Adam Block's 50th image on that site. Block's photo of th ... more |
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 Smithsonian Instrument Fills The Gap During a total eclipse of the Sun, skywatchers are awed by the shimmering corona - a faint glow that surrounds the Sun like gossamer flower petals. This outer layer of the Sun's atmosphere is, ... more | .. |
  Dynetics Awarded Contract To Provide Candidate Flight Hardware Dynetics, corporate team leader for the Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP), the Huntsville-based Google Lunar X PRIZE team, is one of only three organizations selected to supply flight component test ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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  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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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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