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29Sep2012
Near Miss For ISS
Near Miss For The International Space Station. Two pieces of space junk whizzed by the International Space Station this week but posed no threat to the orbiting laboratory or its three-person crew, NASA officials say. The space
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Understanding The Moon Phases
Understanding The Moon Phases. Have you ever wondered what causes the moon phases? We all know that its appearance changes over time. But why? The good way to understand the phases of the moon is to examine an earth-moon-sun
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Curiosity’s Amazing Find On Mars
Curiosity Finds Evidence of An Ancient Streambed on Mars The Curiosity rover has come across a place in Gale Crater where ankle-to-hip-deep water once vigorously flowed: an ancient stream-bed that may turn up paydirt! (more...)
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Newly Spotted Comet May Outshine The Moon
Newly Spotted Comet May Outshine The Moon. It's a bold heading isn't it but it may just have a ring of truth to it. Unless you’ve been cut off from the internet you’ll have heard about 'The Comet. ' (more...)
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Astronauts Can Keep (or sell) Space Artifacts
New law: Astronauts Can Keep (or sell) Space Artifacts. America's early space pioneers have now been confirmed as the legal owners of the equipment and parts they saved as souvenirs from their missions. (more...)
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Space Elevator Shoots For Moon
Space Elevator Project Shoots for the Moon. A space elevator capable of shuttling robots or humans from the Earth to space remains decades away. Pie in the sky? Or the real thing? Read on... (more...)
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Quasars As A Tool to View the Distant Universe
Quasars As A Tool to View the Distant Universe. Although it is not as easy to map space as it was to map our land masses and oceans here on Earth, we might be a step closer to making this possible. (more...)
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Scientists Ready To Photogtraph A Black Hole
Scientists Ready To Photogtraph A Black Hole. Recently, astronomers, physicists and scientists from related fields convened in Arizona. from across the world to discuss something out of this world. (more...)
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Why Join Astronomy Clubs?
Why Join An Astronomy Club? Most people believe that it costs a great deal of money to get involved with astronomy. Certainly, you can spend a great deal if you want to get all the toys, but it is not necessary to break the bank to get a lot of enjoyment from this hobby. (more...)
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Farthest Ever View of the Universe
Farthest Ever View of the Universe. Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe. (more...)
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Bigger Telescopes Really Are Better
Bigger Telescopes Really Are Better. To the beginner, setting out on their first tentative steps to discover the universe, it's an exciting time and the sight of a black star-filled sky. You just wanna be part of it! (more...)
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Dreaded Deimos May Disappear
Dreaded Deimos May Disappear! Fear and dread...! The Martian moon Deimos was discovered by Asaph Hall, Sr. at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C on August 12, 1877. (more...)
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NASA Considers Outpost On Moon’s Farside
NASA Considers Outpost On Moon's Farside Will NASA’s next mission send its astronauts beyond the moon? The space agency is weighing a proposal to build a “gateway spacecraft” a new concept. (more...)
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Shedding “Sunlight” On CMEs
Shedding "Sunlight" On CMEs. For forty years solar physicists have been endeavoring to both understand and explain the Sun's dynamic explosions known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). (more...)
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Shine On Harvest Moon Now!
Harvest Moon Shines This Weekend. THE HARVEST MOON is coming this weekend! The moon has been waxing larger each night, and full moon is the night of September 29-30, 2012. (more...)
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