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Asteroid BustingBethesda MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2011 Imagine it is June 30, 1908 and you are in Siberia. The time is just after seven in the morning. Suddenly a pressure wave knocks you off your feet and a few moments later a blast of heat is so intense that you think your shirt is on fire. This is what a witness felt some 40 miles away from ground zero in the Tunguska event, over 100 years ago. This is the only recorded entry of a large natural space object in modern history. Nineteen years later, when an expedition could finally reach the rugged S ... read more |
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  First Stars In Universe Were Not Alone The first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact, they could have formed alongside numerous companions when the gas disks that surrounded them broke up during form ... more | .. |
  Humankind Sees Sun As Never Before For the first time in history a stunning view of the whole Sun is visible to the world. The unique 360 degrees view of the Sun was unveiled on Sunday 6 February 2011 after NASA's two STEREO (Solar ... more | .. |
 First Ever STEREO Images Of Entire Sun It's official: The sun is a sphere. On Feb. 6th, NASA's twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star-fro ... more | .. |
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  Proposed Mission To Jupiter System Achieves Milestone With input from scientists around the world, American and European scientists working on the potential next new mission to the Jupiter system have articulated their joint vision for the Europa Jupit ... more | .. |
  Surprise Hidden In Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirt ... more | .. |
  US, France to sign accord on tracking space debris US and French defense chiefs plan to sign a space cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track debris in outer space threatening vital satellites, officials told AFP. ... more | .. |
  A Six-Planet System A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA's Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets in tightly packed orbits. Astronomers at the University o ... more |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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 NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone Is our Milky Way galaxy home to other planets the size of Earth? Are Earth-sized planets common or rare? NASA scientists seeking answers to those questions recently revealed their discovery. " ... more | .. |
Las Cumbres Scientists Play Key Role In New Planetry System Discovery NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. UC Santa Ba ... more | .. |
 NASA Stardust Adjusts Flight Path For Comet Meetup Just over two weeks before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path toward the comet. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet ... more | .. |
 Cassini Sends Back Postcards Of Saturn Moons On Jan. 31, 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed by several of Saturn's intriguing moons, snapping images along the way. Cassini passed within about 60,000 kilometers (37,282 miles) of Enceladus a ... more |
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 NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan For Asteroids And Comets NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,00 ... more | .. |
  BigBOSS Advances On Dark Energy With Help From National Optical Astronomy Observatory The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) research and development center for ground-based astronomy, has announced its conditional approval of the ... more | .. |
 Working Together To Take The Pulse Of The Universe Using the Parkes radio telescope, CSIRO astronomers are working closely with NASA to unlock one of astronomy's great enigmas - the science behind pulsars. The team are using the world-class fa ... more | .. |
Earth-Size Planet Candidates Found In Habitable Zone NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
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  A Picture-Perfect Pure-Disc Galaxy The bright galaxy NGC 3621, captured here using the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, appears to be a fine example of a classical spiral. But it is ... more | .. |
'Space net' for orbiting debris proposed Japan's space agency says it is teaming up with a maker of fishing nets to create a "space net" for safely collecting orbiting space debris. ... more | .. |
Report: Space 'junk' threatens services The amount of junk orbiting Earth in space is nearing a "tipping point" that may threaten the $250 billion space services industry, a U.S. report says. ... more | .. |
 Our Sun And Beyond Our Sun has been around for about 4.6 billion years, and will probably last for another few billion years. Although this may seem to be a long time, it is a relatively short interval in the life of ... more |
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 CERN accelerator to run another year The closure of Europe's Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back a year because the machine is running so well and giving scientific results, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Spacecraft finds new comets, asteroids A NASA spacecraft surveying our solar system has discovered previously unknown objects, including 20 new comets and more than 33,00 asteroids, scientists say. ... more | .. |
 Second Sun May Appear At Any Moment Scientists claim that Betelgeuse, a star 640 light years away from Earth, is going to explode soon. Nikolai Chugai, head of the department of Variable Stars and Astronomical Spectroscopy of the Russ ... more | .. |
 Tracking The Origins Of Speedy Space Particles NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft combined with computer models have helped track the origin of the energetic particles in Earth's magneti ... more |
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Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge
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 Gemini South Shines First Sodium Laser "Constellation" In the early morning of January 22, 2011 at 4:38am, Chile Summer Time, a new era in high-resolution astronomy began with the successful propagation of a 5-star sodium laser guide star "constellation ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees Farther Back In Time Than Ever Before Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to it limits by finding what they believe to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe-at a distance of 13.2 billion light years, som ... more | .. |
 NASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine NASA's Stardust spacecraft has downlinked its first images of comet Tempel 1, the target of a flyby planned for Valentine's Day, Feb. 14. The images were taken on Jan. 18 and 19 from a distance of 2 ... more | .. |
 Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation The first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model is transitioning from research into operation. Scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Integra ... more |
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 Asteroids Ahoy! Jupiter Scar Likely From Rocky Body A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus. Data ... more | .. |
  NASA's New Lander Prototype Skates Through Integration And Testing NASA engineers successfully integrated and completed system testing on a new robotic lander recently at Teledyne Brown Engineering's facility in Huntsville in support of the Robotic Lunar Lander Pro ... more | .. |
 A Fizzy Ocean On Enceladus For years researchers have been debating whether Enceladus, a tiny moon floating just outside Saturn's rings, is home to a vast underground ocean. Is it wet--or not? Now, new evidence is tipping the ... more | .. |
 Runaway Star Plows Through Space A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Surve ... more |
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