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Spectacular Flyby Of Comet Tempel 1 Tests Lockheed Built SpacecraftDenver CO (SPX) Feb 16, 2011 NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a Valentine's Day deep-space rendezvous with an object it had been seeking for the past four-and-a-half years. The Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft flawlessly executed its mission and performed a flyby of comet Tempel 1 at 9:39 p.m. MT yesterday. Stardust made its closest approach of the nucleus of the comet at a distance of 111 miles (178 km) and was traveling a relative speed of 24,300 mph (10.9 km per second). During the encounter, the NavCam instrument took ... read more |
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  Isolating The Stellar Discs Of Andromeda A team of astronomers from the UK, the US and Europe have identified a thick stellar disc in the nearby Andromeda galaxy for the first time. The discovery and properties of the thick disc will const ... more | .. |
  New Instrument Will Help Confirm Kepler Planet Finds The search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge. In some ... more | .. |
  SDO Celebrates One Year Anniversary On February 11, 2010, at 10:23 in the morning, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched into space on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral. A year later, SDO has sent back millions of stunnin ... more | .. |
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 NASA spacecraft unravels comet mystery A NASA spacecraft's flyby with a comet showed erosion on the Tempel 1's surface since it skimmed by the Sun in 2005, and revealed Tuesday the first clear pictures of the crater made by a Deep Impact probe. ... more | .. |
 NASA'S Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. An ... more | .. |
 The Two Faces Of Tempel 1 Just one year before its Feb. 14 encounter with comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed the largest rocket burn of its extended life. With the spacecraft on the opposite side of the sol ... more | .. |
 Stardust Set To Meet Its NExT Comet Stardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine's Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second. It's been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the ... more |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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 Building A Global Thermostat In L1 The sun is the predominant source of energy for the Earth. While there are long- and short-term variations in solar intensity that effect periodic global climate changes, there is also a secular tem ... more | .. |
 New View Of Family Life In The North American Nebula Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This cosmic community is called the North America ... more | .. |
  How Much Information Is There In The World? A study appearing on Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead of print, calculates the world's total technological capacity - how much informatio ... more | .. |
  Researchers Discover A New Class Of Magic Atomic Clusters Called Superhalogens An international team of researchers has discovered a new class of magnetic superhalogens - a class of atomic clusters able to exhibit unusual stability at a specific size and composition, which may ... more |
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 Two-Timing Spacecraft Has Date With Another Comet NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter with comet ... more | .. |
 First Ever STEREO Images Of The 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 | .. |
 Stardust Heading Into The Bonus Round A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round," said Stardust-NExT Project Manager Ti ... more | .. |
 Floppy discs out, Blu-rays in -- Greece revises stats Greece has thrown out nearly a dozen items such as floppy discs, photo film and matches from a list of "nearly extinct" goods used until now to calculate inflation, the state statistics agency said. ... 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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 Giant Ring Of Black Holes Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring - not of jewels, but of black holes. This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light-year ... more | .. |
Amount of data stored worldwide estimated U.S. researchers say they've estimated the amount of data stored worldwide by 2007 at 295 exabytes - equivalent to 1.2 billion average computer hard drives. ... more | .. |
 New Images Show Cloud Exploding From Sun Ripples Like Clouds On Earth Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are sim ... more | .. |
Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn NASA's Stardust spacecraft marked its 12th anniversary in space on Monday, Feb. 7, with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward a Feb. 14 date with a comet. The half-minute trajectory ... more |
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 Car-size asteroid nears Earth Wednesday A car-size asteroid will pass near Earth Wednesday, U.S. scientists said, while one bigger than two football fields might hit Earth in 18 years. ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Closes In On Comet Tempel 1 NASA is about to discover how solar heat devours a comet. "For the first time, we'll see the same comet before and after its closest approach to the sun," explains Joe Veverka, principal investigato ... more | .. |
Asteroid's near hit changes its orbit An asteroid passing Earth at just 3,400 miles was the closest near miss on record, and Earth's gravity sent it into an entirely new orbit, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 NRL Researchers View The Sun In 3D Beginning on February 6, 2011, the two STEREO spacecraft are 180 degrees apart providing Naval Research Laboratory scientists with a 360-degree view of the Sun. NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Rela ... more |
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Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge
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  LRO Could Have Given Apollo 14 Crew Another Majestic View Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful - it met all its science goals - the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing ... more | .. |
 Astrobotic Technology Annouces Lunar Mission On SpaceX Falcon 9 Astrobotic Technology has announced it has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9. The expedition will search for water and deliver payloads, ... more | .. |
 NASA's "COSmIC" Simulator Helps Fingerprint Unknown Matter In Space Who are we? Where do we come from? These are questions that scientists hope to find clues to by better understanding the composition and evolution of the universe. NASA flies sophisticated spa ... more | .. |
 Asteroid Busting 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 inten ... more |
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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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