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30Jun2012
Humans Sending Reply To Possible Alien Message
We're sending a reply to a possible ET message If you have anything to say to aliens, now is the time, but its not sure whether it will reach them or not. The Wow! signal, a mysterious radio transmission detected in 1977is in the news again. (more...)
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Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies Formed From Mergers?
Ultraluminous infrared galaxies may have an interesting home. Three decades ago the Infrared Astronomical Satellite’s (IRAS) all-sky survey captured a new breed - the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy - or ULIRG. (more...)
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Meteorite Crashes Into London Cab
Londoners See A Cab 'Hit' By A Meteorite. Londoners awoke this morning to news of a meteorite which struck a taxi in the heart of the city’s busy shopping district Covent Garden. Witnesses were left stunned by what they saw. (more...)
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The Fate Of Our Moon
The Fate Of The Moon. The clockwork motion of our solar system enables a certain degree of predictability - eclipses and comets are classic examples of this. One of the lesser known predictions is the fate of our Moon. (more...)
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Voyager-1 Becoming Our Interstellar Emissary
Voyager 1 - The Little Spacecraft That Could. The spacecraft that launched on a tour of the solar on Sept. 5, 1977,Voyager 1, is getting ready to enter interplanetary space. In effect this is our first attempt to reach out to ET. (more...)
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The Science Behind Saturday’s Leap Second
What's Behind The Science Of Saturday's Leap Second? This Saturday, June 30, expect a lengthier day, as an extra leap second will be added to Earthlings' clocks. What's behind this leap second? Who's playing with our clocks? (more...)
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Titan’s Underground Ocean
Saturn's powerful gravity stretches and deforms Titan as the moon moves around the gas giant planet. If Titan were composed entirely of stiff rock, the gravitational attraction of Saturn should cause bulges, or "tides," only1 metre in height. (more...)
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Stellar Flare Blasts Exoplanet
"The multiwavelength coverage by Hubble and Swift has given us an unprecedented view of the interaction between a flare on an active star and the atmosphere of a giant planet," said Alain Lecavelier des Etangs c/0 Paris Institute of Astrophysics. (more...)
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Lice In Space
Beware The Forum Quorum Now, I wouldn’t normally run a story berating any astronomical organization in this country, but I’m going to make an exception here. Simply because of the unfairness. (more...)
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NASA App Puts Space Station At Your Fingertips
Ever wonder what the crew on board the International Space Station is doing right now? Or what is the temperature of each of the orbiting outpost's modules? Or how much power is being generated at this very instant? (more...)
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Allende Meteorite Yields New Mineral – Panguite
Everything was quiet in the Mexican state of Chihuahua on the night of February 8, 1969. And then... it happened. A huge meteorite, the size of a car, ripped through the atmosphere in a blaze of glory and shattered itself over the terrain. (more...)
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Hubble Captures Rare Arc
The Hubble Telescope Has Captured A Rare Cosmic Arc. Oh, sure. We've all seen things in a telescope that we couldn't quite comprehend... but what if it happened to a professional astronomer using the Hubble Space Telescope? (more...)
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‘Echoes’ of the Big Bang Misinterpreted?
Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe it. That's according to veteran radio astronomer Gerrit Verschuur, Univ. of Memphis, who has an outrageously unorthodox theory if true, would turn modern cosmology upside down. (more...)
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‘Gas Stations’ in Space
A company based in the northwestern United States called Planetary Resources says it plans to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. What was once the stuff of Sci-Fi is now reality. (more...)
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The Day We Almost Lost Atlantis
The exhaustive attention NASA now devotes to making sure shuttle heat shields are damage-free and safe for re-entry is a direct result of the 2003 Columbia disaster.It almost stopped dead the entire shuttle program...it was that close! (more...)
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