Titan and Rhea Around Saturn
Earth is the only planet in our Solar System to have a single solitary moon. While others, such as Mercury and Venus, have none, the gas…
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Impact of Cosmic Chaos on Star Birth Identified by Chandra
The same phenomenon that causes a bumpy airplane ride, turbulence, may be the solution to a long-standing mystery about stars’ birth, or the absence of it,…
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A 3D Flight Over Chaotic Terrain on Mars
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John Barrowman “Is Aboard” Orion
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Hubble Observations of Comet Siding Spring Mars Encounter
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AAVSA Alert Notice 505: Monitoring of Northern Dwarf Novae for Radio Jets Campaign
AAVSO Alert Notice 505 Monitoring of Northern dwarf novae for radio jets campaign October 24, 2014 Ms. Deanne Coppejans (PhD candidate, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and…
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Rosetta Ambition – Turning Science Fiction Into Science Fact
Imagine: with a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his young Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets. They levitate…
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Image of Comet Siding Spring Next to Mars
This composite Hubble Space Telescope image (click image for larger view) captures the positions of Comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of…
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All three NASA orbiters around Mars confirmed their healthy status Sunday after each took shelter behind Mars during a period of risk from dust released by…
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Watch a Sunset Solar Eclipse on October 23rd
Sunsets are always pretty. One sunset this month could be out of this world. On Thursday, Oct. 23rd, the setting sun across eastern parts of the…
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