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U.S. To Restart Plutonium Production for Deep Space Exploration

March 20, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The end of NASA’s plutonium shortage may be in sight. On Monday March 18th,  NASA’s planetary science division head Jim Green announced that production of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) is currently in the test phases [...]

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A Valentine From Voyager

February 14, 2013

On February 14, 1990, after nearly 13 years of travel through the outer Solar System, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed the orbit of Pluto and turned its camera around, capturing photos of the planets as seen from that vast distance. It was a family portrait taken from over 4.4 billion kilometers away — the ultimate [...]

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We Are Made of Stardust

February 3, 2013

This brief quote by the late Carl Sagan is wonderfully illustrated in the beautiful and poignant short film “Stardust,” directed by Mischa Rozema of Amsterdam-based media company PostPanic. Using actual images from space exploration as well as CGI modeling, Stardust reminds us that everything we and the world around us are made of was created [...]

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27 Years Ago: Voyager 2′s Visit to Uranus

January 24, 2013

Image of Uranus’ crescent taken by a departing Voyager 2 on January 25, 1986 (NASA/JPL) 27 years ago today, January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft sped past Uranus, becoming simultaneously the first and last spacecraft to visit the blue-tinged gas giant, third largest planet in the Solar System. The image above shows the crescent-lit Uranus [...]

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Voyager 1 May Have Left the Solar System

October 8, 2012

Number of particles from the Sun hitting Voyager 1. Credit: NASA While there’s no official word from NASA on this, the buzz around the blogosphere is that Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. The evidence comes from this graph, above, which shows the number of particles, mainly protons, from the Sun hitting Voyager 1 [...]

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