NASA Celebrates Sun_Earth Day, 2009
NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day With Illuminating Webcast NASA scientists will reveal new information and images about our sun and its influence on Earth and the solar…
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Lunar Explorer Review
Commercial space entrepreneurs are developing rockets that will take tourists to the moon in the not-too-distant future. But a software maker has taken a head start…
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NASA’s Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…
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Something is about to happen on Saturn that’s so pretty, even Hubble will pause to take a look. “On Feb. 24th, there’s going to be a…
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SDO Observatory – click for larger image NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on…
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Astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from…
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In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life – a comet…
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Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609, marking the dawn of modern astronomy. To commemorate 400 years of exploring the universe, 2009 has…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 394: Nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud
AAVSO Alert Notice 394: Nova in The Large Magellanic Cloud February 9, 2009 Event: Nova in The Large Magellanic Cloud Discovered By: W. Liller (Vina del…
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In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life – a comet…
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