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NASA Security Badges are a Health and Safety Risk
Of all the things that could possibly go wrong for the US space agency, you wouldn't expect the security ID badge holder of NASA employees to rank very high on the list of "risks." Unfortunately, the new high-tech security badge holders recently issued to NASA employees have been identified as...
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Where In The Universe #18
Here's this week's "Where In The Universe?" mystery image. The goal of this challenge is to test your skills and visual knowledge of our universe. Guess where this image is from, and give yourself extra points if you can guess which spacecraft is responsible for the image. As always,...
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TV Alert: Mythbusters and the Moon Hoax Myth
On Wednesday August 27th, at 9 p.m. ET/PT in the US, the famed "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel will take on one of the biggest myths ever: the belief the Apollo Moon landings were faked. Some folks who lived through the 1960's never believed the moon landings actually...
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Large Hadron Collider Rap Is a Hit
Puzzled about particle physics? Want to know what the inside of the Large Hadron Collider looks like? Like music, fun and science? Want to know for sure the LHC won't create a black hole that will swallow the Earth? Find all of the above in a rap...
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Clash of Clusters Separates Dark Matter From Ordinary Matter
A powerful collision of galaxy clusters captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory provides evidence for dark matter and insight into its properties. Observations of the cluster known as MACS J0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated dark matter from ordinary matter. The images also...
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A Chilly Sunrise on Mars
Via Twitter, the Phoenix lander said, "I saw this beautiful sunrise yestersol. Bittersweet, as it means an end to midnight sun in the Martian arctic." At Phoenix's location above Mars arctic circle, the sun doesn't set during the peak of summer in the northern hemisphere. If you...
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Cosmonaut Photographed South Ossetia From ISS Shortly After Russian Invasion
During a Russian weather observation campaign, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko took photographs above the South Ossetia region of Georgia soon after the Russian military action in the area on August 9th. According to NASA's ISS Daily Report, Kononenko was monitoring the "after-effects of border conflict operations in the Caucasus" and his...
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Hey, What Are Spirit and Opportunity Up to These Days?
With the Phoenix lander busily working away on Mars and grabbing the recent headlines, we haven't heard much from the other two robots on the Red Planet, the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit has been hunkered down, trying to survive the harshest weeks of southern Martian winter....
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Has the First Extraterrestrial (Computer) Virus Been Discovered on the Space Station?
Could this be the first space-borne computer virus ever discovered? It would appear that the International Space Station, orbiting at over 330 km (180 miles) above the planet, is not immune to software problems more commonly associated with computers down here on Earth. Over the last few days, astronauts on...
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GLAST is Now Fermi
With "first light" successfully observed by the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, as it has been called until now, NASA has christened the space observatory with its new official name: The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. Named for Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, the telescope will delve...
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Atlantis Takes First Steps To Hubble
Space shuttle Atlantis was rolled over the the Vehicle Assembly Building after hunkering down in the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center during Tropical Storm Fay. In the VAB, Atlantis will be attached to its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters. NASA announced that Atlantis will...
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Phoenix Digs Deep for 90th Day on Mars
The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug. On Tuesday, August 26, the scoop on the lander's robotic arm will pick up a sample of soil from the...
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Celestron Sky Maps and Star Finder - Start Out Right
I'm often asked about what I'd recommend as a very basic book for beginner's to help them learn their way around the constellations and how to put their binoculars or small telescopes to good use. Needless to say, there's an endless array of books for the beginning stargazer and...
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How To Save the World From Asteroid Impact: Plastic Wrap
Remember a competition we reported on back in April called "Move An Asteroid"? It was an international technical paper competition looking for unique and innovative concepts for how to deflect an asteroid or comet that might be on a collision course for Earth. The winners have been announced...
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Rosetta Prepares for Meet-Up With Asteroid Next Week
ESA?s Rosetta spacecraft will make an historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on September 5, 2008 at 20:58 CEST (Central European Summer Time), 2:58 pm EDT (US Eastern Daylight Time.) A few days ago, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction maneuver using images from the spacecraft's cameras to...
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