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In Advances in Space Research - By TAKAMI M., TAMURA M., ENYA K., OOTSUBO T., FUKAGAWA M., HONDA M., OKAMOTO Y., ...
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On The Look-Out for Extrasolar Planets
Tom's Astronomy Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
We’re so used to thinking about other planets… around other stars… in other galaxies… that it’s difficult to believe the existence of extrasolar planets (”exoplanets”) was unconfirmed until 1992. The first published “discovery” was actually made four years earlier by astronomers Bruce Campbell, G.A. Walker, and S. Yang of a planet orbiting the...
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2012 nonsense at Information is Beautiful
Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The cool website Information is Beautiful presents, um, well, information in a beautiful way. They recently posted a good guide to the sense and nonsense of the 2012 phenom, pretty much showing that the major claims of the doomcriers are baloney. I haven’t checked every factoid of the graphic, but the part pictured above is [...]
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Crab Nebula: The Crab Nebula: A Cosmic Icon
Astronomy Cmarchesin (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Credit X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/F.Seward; Optical: NASA/ESA/ASU/J.Hester & A.Loll; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. Minn./R.Gehrz JPEG (416.6 kb) Tiff (36.9 MB) PS (15.5 MB) More Images Download Desktop Zoom-In (flash) Great Observatories Composite Image of Crab Nebula (Runtime: 00:14) More Animations A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054...
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Obama kicks off massive science education effort!
Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I just finished watching a live stream of a speech President Obama gave at the White House, pledging more support for science education in this country. Woohoo! Science, technology, engineering, and math — STEM — education has been struggling for years. This new effort, called Educate to Innovate, is "…designed to energize and excite America’s students [...]
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Hot Jupiters Bully Super Earths
Universe Today (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
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. Fortunately, our humble planet gets along with [...]
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Wechsler’s Index
Cosmic Variance (Free subscription) | yesterday
My last 10 days (posted after a recovery weekend), by the numbers: Shuttle launches witnessed: 1 Shuttle launches since 1981: 129 Shuttle launches remaining: 5 “Shuttle Experience” rides experienced: 1 Cost of Space Shuttle Atlantis [dollars]: 1.7 billion Total cost of the International Space Station [dollars]: 157 billion Science publications resulting from research by the International...
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The Big Picture on LHC
Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Speaking of the LHC, the Boston Globe’s terrific feature The Big Picture has a slew of gorgeous pictures of the Large Hadron Collider up on the site. These images, as beautiful and hi-res as they are, still cannot convey the awesome size and scale of the LHC. It’s been a year and a half since [...]
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NASA Cassini Mission: Take a Virtual Tour of Seven Saturn Moons
Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
NASA CASSINI MISSION SENDS BACK PIX FROM SATURN'S MANY MOONS Let's take a tour of some of the many moons of Saturn, courtesy of NASA's Cassini Mission. Some of the photos have been around for a couple months, while others are "hot off the press". Included in this virtual tour of Saturn's Moons are Janus, Rhea, Hyperion, Dione, Penelope, Titan and Enceladus. There are many more, but these...
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The Sky This Week - Thursday November 26 to Thursday December 3
Astroblog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Full Moon is Wednesday December 2. Jupiter is is easily seen as the brightest object in the evening sky. Mercury returns to the evening sky low in the twilight. In the morning, Mars is easily seen above the north-eastern horizon. Saturn is close to the dawn horizon. The variable star Mira is still bright. Morning sky looking north-east showing Mars and Saturn at 4:00 am local daylight saving time...
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KSC Powers On Solar Energy Future
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Image 1: More than 3,300 solar panels have been erected on a vacant five acres at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to create the Solar Energy Center. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman Image 2: Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, left, Roderick Roche of SunPower Corp., and Florida power & Light's Eric Silagy symbolically turn on the one megawatt solar energy center at KSC. Photo credit:...
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Cassini Sends Back Enceladus Images As Winter Nears
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Image 1: This unprocessed image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its Nov. 21, 2009 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. It shows the moon's south polar region, where jets of water vapor and other particles spew from fissures on the surface. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteImage 2: This unprocessed image was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its Nov. 21, 2009 flyby...
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Challenger Center Live Webcast about Comets and Asteroids
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Join Challenger Center for a live interactive webcast, Thursday December 10th at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time with John Ristvey, Principal Consultant for Education and Public Outreach for NASA's Dawn, Stardust NExT, and EPOXI missions.
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Lockheed Martin Successfully Launches Intelsat 14 Spacecraft
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) this morning successfully delivered a commercial telecommunications satellite for Intelsat, the leading provider of fixed satellite services, into orbit aboard an Atlas V booster provided by United Launch Alliance.
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Astronomy Question of the Week: What happens on the Moon during a lunar eclipse?
Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Nowadays, solar eclipses are seen as a fascinating natural phenomenon. In earlier times, people viewed them instead as something threatening, since the Sun provides us with light and heat, without which life on Earth could not flourish. However, the cause of solar eclipses is now generally known: On its orbit around the Earth, the Moon [...]
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Physicist Dismissed Over Claims And Biological Pacemaker
jeanlyons7 | 11/17/2009
Today, we tell about a new object discovered far away in the solar system. We tell about a physicist who was dismissed for scientific wrongdoing. Quaoar, Physicist, Biological Pacemaker http://www.1-language.com/eslnews/science021029.htm
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Learning to drive
koko9988 | 11/09/2009
The reason why the development of human society to today's well-developed and advanced, the most fundamental reason is that humans have always cherished a dream of perseverance. From the Archimedes on the idea of leveraging the Earth to the Jules Verne fantasy on the submarine and landing on the moon; from the Wright brothers on the dream of flying to the idea of Einstein's space-time conversion. Human...
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Watch The Box Online | Download The Box Movie Free
trangleso | 11/07/2009
Do you Love Movies but don’t have a reliable source to get them when you want them! Now I’m downloading movies and burning my own Videos CDs for free! There is no computer experience and any kind of tools needed to download The Box or any of my favorite movies and TV shows and burn them to CD. Oh yeah… many movie download programs come with spyware and adware so I also wanted to download my movies...
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