NASA Returning to the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will…
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Arietid Meteor Shower
The annual Arietid meteor shower peaks on Sunday, June 7th. The Arietids are unusual because they are daytime meteors; they stream out of a point in…
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The first noctilucent clouds of 2009 have been seen over northern Europe. On May 29th, photographers recorded wispy electric-blue tendrils spreading across the twilight skies of…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 396 Nova in Centaurus May 15, 2009 Discovered By: G. Pojmanski, D. Szczygiel, and B. Pilecki (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory) Discovery Date: 2009…
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NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 395: Nova in Sagittarius
AAVSO Alert Notice 395: Nova in Sagittarius May 6, 2009 Discovered By: K. Nishiyama (Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan) and F. Kabashima (Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan) Discovery Date: 2009…
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Six minutes and 39 seconds – that’s the duration of this week’s total solar eclipse, the longest of the 21st century. The event begins at the…
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Only a memory now, but a memory that returns with thoughts of the solar eclipse of coming on July 22, 2009 and the eclipse back on…
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NASA is inviting the public to vote online for the most important contribution the space agency has made to exploring Earth and improving the way we…
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The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. 2008 was a…
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