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This video compilation of the STS-129 ascent is incredible! It includes video highlights from ground, air, SRB and external tank cameras during the launch of Atlantis on Nov. 16, 2009. It will give you a new appreciation for the space shuttle. The music is great, as well. Click here to ...
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Atlantis
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this image is from; give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft responsible ...
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Image credit: JAXA/SELENE
Future lunar astronauts may want to brush up on their spelunking skills: the first lava tube has been discovered on the moon .
In a recent paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, Junichi Haruyama and colleagues report that they have discovered a ...
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We live in a cosmic shooting gallery. In Phil Plait's Death From the Skies , he lays out the dangers of a massive impact: destructive shockwaves, tsunamis , flash fires, atmospheric darkening…. The scenario isn't pretty should a big one come our way. Fortunately, we may have a ...
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Jupiter
Earth
Terzan 5. Credit: ESO/F. Ferraro
Like archaeologists who dig through the layers of dirt to unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers have been gazing through the thick layers of interstellar dust obscuring the central bulge of the Milky Way and have unveiled an ...
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Milky Way
Occurring every year in mid-December, the Geminid meteor shower is commonly referred to as the most reliable meteor shower of the year. That is, it almost always puts on a great show!
The Geminid meteor shower is sure to be a stunning show this year, as the Moon will not be visible at night, ...
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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/M.Corcoran et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
Eta Carinae is a beast of a star . At more than 100 solar masses and 4 million times the luminosity of our Sun , eta Car balances dangerously on the edge of stellar stability and it’s ultimate fate: complete ...
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Edwin Hubble
Something that baffled me throughout my childhood, growing up in Australia, was the frequent references to the Man in the Moon , in children’s books and other popular media. I just couldn’t see it.
Only in my adult years have I put two and two together and realized that all those references ...
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If I didn't know better, I'd swear some of the images from the STS-129 shuttle mission to the International Space Station were CGI renderings taken from a science fiction novel. Take the above image, for example of astronaut Mike Foreman working on the exterior of the ISS during ...
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Scientists caused quite a stir in 1996 when they announced a meteorite had been found in Antarctica that might contain evidence for microscopic fossils of Martian bacteria. While subsequent studies of the now famous Alan Hills Meteorite shot down theories that the Mars rock held fossilized ...
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Mars
Very likely, the last image that comes to mind when thinking of black holes is that they need to be nurtured, coddled and protected when young. But new research reveals the first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered ...
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"Looking up in the sky is one of the greatest things a human being can do. Going out to a silent and dark site, enjoying the beauty of the Universe with friends. You will forget all the problems here on Earth , because you realize that we are only a little funny thing on this ball we ...
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Here's your chance to play online slot machines without risking your life savings. Plus it's an opportunity to contribute to a citizen science project that is sure to revolutionize our understanding of galaxy mergers. Galaxy Zoo 's newest project asks for help in looking at ...
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Why – and how — do brown dwarfs form? Since these cosmic misfits fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass, astronomers haven't yet been able to determine how they form: are their beginnings like planets or stars ? Now, the Spitzer Space ...
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This week's Carnival of Space is hosted over at the Chandra Blog.
Click here to read the Carnival of Space #130.
And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space . If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the ...
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is planning to building a massive – and I do mean massive – telescope in the next decade. The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is a 42-meter telescope in its final planning stages. Weighing in at 5,000 tonnes, and made up of 984 ...
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Edwin Hubble
Screens showing two beams in the LHC. Credit: CERN
Two beams circulated simultaneously inside the Large Hadron Collider for the first time today, allowing for the first proton-proton collisions to take place. “It’s a great achievement to have come this far in so short a time,” said CERN ...
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Large Hadron Collider
The weird mystery of the flyby anomaly just got even weirder. Since the early 1990's scientists and mission controllers have noticed that some spacecraft experience unexpected changes in speed during Earth - flybys . The unexplained variation is extremely small and has occurred as ...
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If you think about it, those hypnotizing patterns of swirling clouds you see in TV weather reports are pretty amazing: satellites let us see what's happening in the skies all over the world. But these days, that kind of global vision even goes beyond the Earth . The Mars Reconnaissance ...
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Mars
Bullies are everywhere and the universe is no exception. In our own solar system , Jupiter 's mass is second only to that of the Sun . Its gravitational effects tug around a set of asteroids known as the Trojans and may prevent the asteroid belt from becoming anything more substantial. ...
