Hubble Takes Photo of Comet ISON
Later this year, Comet ISON is expected to become a naked-eye object when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun. The Hubble Space Telescope has…
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Cassini Takes Face-on View of Enceladus
A patchwork network of frozen ridges and troughs cover the face of Enceladus, Saturn’s most enigmatic of icy moons. This face-on colour view of Enceladus was…
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Could Comet ISON Produce a Meteor Shower?
Anticipation is building as Comet ISON plunges into the inner solar system for a close encounter with the sun in November 2013. Blasted at point-blank range…
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New View of the Horsehead Nebula Taken by Hubble and Herschel Space Telescopes
New views of the Horsehead Nebula and its turbulent environment have been unveiled by ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope. Stunning new…
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What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth in Space?
For hand towels, astronauts get those little vacuum-packed pucks that you kind of have to unravel into a towel. But what happens when you actually put…
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The Growing Threat of Space Debris
The continuing growth in space debris poses an increasing threat to economically vital orbital regions. Next week, hundreds of top experts from across the globe will…
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Smallest Earth-Like Planets to Date Discovered by Kepler Space Telescope
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where…
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How Do You Target an Asteroid?
Like many of his colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many…
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Life Could Actually Be Older Than Earth Itself
Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing possibility that life existed before Earth did and may have originated outside our solar system,…
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Galaxy Evolution Theory Challenged by Star Formation in Distant Galaxy
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time…
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