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Explody Eta Aquarid Meteor Caught in the Act
See Comet C/2015 ER61 PanSTARRS at its Best
Have you been following the Springtime parade of bright comets? Thus far, the Oort cloud has offered up several fine binocular comets, including Comet 2/P Encke, 41/P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, 45/P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE and C/2017 E4 Lovejoy. Now, another comet joins the dawn ranks, as it brightens up ahead of expectations: 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS.
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Messier 41 - the NGC 2287 Open Star Cluster
Air Force's Secret X-37B Space Plane Lands After 718 Days in Orbit
Does Jupiter Have a Solid Core?
For the past few decades, scientists have been of the opinion that beneath its swirling clouds of gas, Jupiter may have a solid core.
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Only 10 Light-Years Away, there's a Baby Version of the Solar System
Located 10.5 light years away, and filled with asteroid belts and a debris disk, the Epsilon Eridani system is basically what our Solar System was like when it was young
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SpaceX Blasts First Surveillance Satellite to Orbit - Launch and Landing Photo/Video Gallery
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - This week SpaceX blasted their first top secret surveillance satellite to orbit for America's spy chiefs at National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - affording magnificent viewing and imagery from the Florida Space Coast.
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Faster Supercomputer! NASA Announces the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge
To ensure that their Pleiades supercomputer can keep up with future missions, NASA and TopCoder are hosting the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.
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High-Speed Space Broadband for Everyone. SpaceX Details their Plans to Launch 1000s of Internet Satellites
At a Senate hearing, SpaceX laid out its vision to provide global access to broadband internet with a "constellation of satellites".
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A Single Wave, Bigger Than the Milky Way, is Rolling Through the Perseus Galaxy Cluster
A team of researchers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have spotted a wave of hot gas larger than the Milky Way in the Perseus galaxy cluster.
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Weekly Space Hangout – May 5, 2017: Mathew Anderson's "Our Cosmic Story," Updated!
The Cetus Constellation
Located along the ecliptic plane is the Cetus constellation, the fourth largest constellation in the sky and one of the original 48 listed in the Amalgest.
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Titan Ripe For Drone Invasion
Elizabeth Turtle , a researcher at NASA's JHUAPL, reveals the latest details of "the Dragonfly" - a proposal for an aerial vehicle that could explore Titan in the coming decades.
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New Japanese mission will be going to the Moons of Mars
Between proposals for missions to the Moon and Mars in the coming decades, JAXA is proposing a mission to the moons of Mars.
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Enjoy The Biggest Infrared Image Ever Taken Of The Small Magellanic Cloud Without All That Pesky Dust In The Way
A new image of the Small Magellanic Cloud reveals its population of stars in stunningly rich detail.
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Building Rovers That Can Detect Life and Sequence DNA on Other Worlds
A team from MIT (with support from NASA) is building an instrument that will be able to test for signs of life in-situ, and on other planets and moons.
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Why Do Rockets Need Stages? The Quest to Build a Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO)
Science fiction has promised us a rocket that blasts off into space without stages. How close is reality to the science fiction dream of a single stage to orbit?
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Comet Halley Plays Bit Part In Weekend Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower
Enjoy the wonder of seeing bits of Halley's Comet rain down as the Eta Aquariid meteors Saturday morning.
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Where Should We Look For Ancient Civilizations in the Solar System?
While we're searching the Universe for evidence of life, we should consider places in our own Solar System where ancient civilizations might have left an impact.
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Rise Of The Super Telescopes: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
When the WFIRST observatory comes online in the mid 2020s, it will take images 100 times larger than the Hubble.
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Carnival of Space #507
NASA's Space Chainmail to Give Astronauts the Edge in Space Duels
A new type of "space fabric", which closely resembles chainmail, could revolutionize the way spaceships and space components are manufactured.
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SpaceX Stages Stupendous NRO Spysat Sunrise Liftoff and Land Landing
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX today staged the stupendously successful Falcon 9 rocket launch at sunrise of a mysterious spy satellite in support of U.S. national defense for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) while simultaneously accomplishing a breathtaking pinpoint land landing of the boosters first stage that could eventually dramatically drive down the high costs of spaceflight.
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What's that Strange Glowing Mold? Astronauts will Soon be Able to Sequence Unknown Space Organisms
Building on the success of their Biomolecule Sequencer, NASA is launching the Genes in Space-3 project to give astronauts the ability to study microbes in space.
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An Aging Pulsar has Captured a new Companion, and it's Spinning back up Again
An international team of scientists, relying on data from XMM-Newton, have discovered a slowly-rotating pulsar that is slowly speeding back up
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Star-travel 5 Million Years Into The Milky Way's Future
A new video based on ESA's Gaia Mission lets you gaze into the crystal ball and watch the Milky Way galaxy evolve right before your eyes.
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Surveillance Sat Set for Sunday Sunrise SpaceX Blastoff and Landing Apr. 30 - Watch Live
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - A classified surveillance for the nation's spymasters is set for blastoff shortly after sunrise on Sunday, Apr. 30 by SpaceX in a space first by the firm founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk that also features a ground landing attempt by the booster. Update: Scrub reset to May 1
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LEGO Apollo Saturn V: Tallest LEGO Ideas Set Ever Made
LEGO announced their new LEGO Apollo Saturn V rocket set for June 1, 2017. With 1969-pieces, it'll be the tallest to come out of their Ideas community.
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TRAPPIST-1 System Ideal For Life Swapping
A new study of the TRAPPIST-1 system indicates that life-swapping may take place between the planets in its habitable zone, and quite often too!
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Weekly Space Hangout - April 28, 2017: Tim Blais of A Capella Science
Pardon My Vomit: Zero G Ettiquette In the Age Of Space Tourism
With multiple commercial aerospace companies offering flights into space, to the Moon, and even beyond, would-be passengers are starting to train for the likelihood of "space sickness".
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Breakthrough Listen Publishes First Analysis Of 692 Stars In ET Search
Breakthrough Listen, the most ambitious SETI program in history, just released an analysis of their first year of data, which contains 11 events that a high degree of significance.
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A Survivor's Tale: Cassini Lives Through First Ring Dive
Europe & China Discuss Moonbase Partnership
The ESA and Chinese National Space Agency have announced their plans to create a "Moon Village" on the lunar surface by the 2020s.
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What Are Fast Radio Bursts?
Here's a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they? Where do they come from? Astronomers have no idea.
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Is Another Universe Sitting Too Close To Us On The Multiverse Bus?
A new survey of the CMB's Cold Spot has ruled out the possibility that this anomaly is caused by a supervoid, which opens things up to more exotic explanations.
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The Next Pluto Mission: An Orbiter and Lander?
SpaceX to Launch 1st NRO SpySat Sunday after Static Fire Success
MERRITT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, FL - Elon Musk's SpaceX is primed for another significant space first; the firms first launch of a spy satellite for the US governments super secret spy agency; the National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO - following today's successful static hotfire test of the Falcon 9 launchers first stage booster.
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Designing The Hanging Gardens Of Mars
Scientists are working on a system of growing food for astronauts while away from Earth for extended periods of time.
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Did A Comet Impact Push Humans Into Technological Overdrive?
According to a study by a team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the oldest temple site in the world may actually be an astronomical record of a comet hitting Earth.
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Adieu Titan: So Long & Thanks For All The Hydrocarbons
On Friday, April 21st, the Cassini spacecraft conducted its last flyby of Titan, a maneuver which touched off the final phase of its mission around Saturn.
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Another Strange Discovery From LHC That Nobody Understands
"Enhanced strangeness production" surprises experimenters at LHC's ALICE experiment.
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Carnival of Space #506
NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Sets US Space Endurance Record, Speaks to President Trump
NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson set the endurance record for time in space by a U.S, astronaut today, Monday, April 24, during her current stint of living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) along with her multinational crew of five astronauts and cosmonauts.
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Messier 40 - the Winnecke 4 Double Star
Located in the direction of the Ursa Major constellation is Messier 40 (Winnecke 4), an optical double star that looks like a double star system.
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What is the Average Surface Temperature of Mercury?
Because of its extremely eccentric orbit, slow rotation, and lack of an atmosphere, Mercury experiences extreme variations in surface temperature.
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Into The Submillimeter: The Early Universe's Formation
A new study of distant, early galaxies helps us understand the early days of our Universe.
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Join Fraser and Friends for a COSMOS Marathon on Monday
Join Fraser and a panel of space friends for a marathon of COSMOS on Monday at 12:00pm PST. We'll watch 13 episodes, back to back, answer questions, update the science, and try not to go insane.
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Team Creates Negative Effective Mass In The Lab
A research team from WSU has created, for the first time under laboratory conditions, a fluid that behaves as if it has a negative mass.
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SS John Glenn Stellar Space Station Launch - Photo/Video Gallery
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - This week's blastoff of the 'SS John Glenn' Cygnus cargo freighter atop an Atlas V rocket on a critical mission delivering over 7000 pounds of science and gear to the International Space Station (ISS) yielded stellar imagery from all around the Florida Space Coast.
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