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Watch Live: Emergency ISS Spacewalk to Fix Coolant Leak

May 11, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Free live streaming by Ustream Astronauts on the International Space Station doing an unplanned “emergency” spacewalk to fix an ammonia coolant leak outside the station. On Thursday, the ISS crew spotted small white flakes floating away from an area of the [...]

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Watch Live Hangout: TESS and the Search for Exoplanets

May 1, 2013

Last month, NASA announced plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2017. This is a satellite that will perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the Sun’s neighborhood. “TESS will carry out the first space-borne all-sky transit survey, covering 400 times as much sky [...]

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Watch Live Webcast of Comet PANSTARRS

March 15, 2013

UPDATE: The webcast has been moved to March 16 at 17:00 UTC (1 pm EDT) due to bad weather in Italy. Has it been cloudy where you live and you haven’t yet been able to see Comet PANSTARRS? The Virtual Telescope Project will have a live webcast of this comet, C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS, from Italy, [...]

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Watch Live Webcast: Cosmic Rays and Exploding Stars

February 28, 2013

Scientists have know about cosmic rays for a century. But these high-energy subatomic particles, which stream through space at nearly the speed of light and crash into the Earth’s upper atmosphere, have been mostly a mystery. The primary reason: researchers have been unable to tell where they come from, or how they’re born. But new [...]

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Space Station Astronauts Hangout with Earthlings (and Universe Today!)

February 22, 2013

It’s not often that people on Earth get to hangout with astronauts in space, but today NASA held the first-ever Google Plus Hangout from the International Space Station. It was a live event, and if you aren’t familiar yet with G+ Hangouts (you really should be by now!) they allow people to chat face-to-face while [...]

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