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STS-133 Launches on Historic Final Mission for Shuttle Discovery - Universe Today
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Space and astronomy news. Discovery launches for one final mission. Credit: Alan Walters (awaltersphoto.com) for Universe Today. STS-133 Launches on Historic Final Mission for Shuttle Discovery. Article Updated: 24 Dec , 2015. Discovery set off on her final journey from a picture-perfect warm February day at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, thrilling enormous crowds of onlookers, a huge international press corp and dedicated Tweet-up attendees. Paving the way for the launch was today’s successful docking...
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Traveling the Universe: January 2010
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Mars - The Red Planet. Mars (Greek: Ares) is the god of War. The planet probably got this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to as the Red Planet. (An interesting side note: the Roman god Mars was a god of agriculture before becoming associated with the Greek Ares; those in favor of colonizing and terraforming Mars may prefer this symbolism.) The name of the month March derives from Mars. Tharsis: a huge bulge on the Martian surface that is about 4000 km ac...
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Traveling the Universe: Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Here's one of the first raw images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft just after equinox, on August 12, 2009. The planet sure looks naked without its rings! Saturn's rings at equinox. Credit: NASA. Mystery Object Pierces a Saturn's Ring. Equinoxes occur at the point in a planet's orbit when the sun shines directly on the planet's equator. Earth has two equinoxes each year, one in spring and another in autumn. (See an equinox video.). This celes...
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Latest News on Apophis: 13 -year-old Boy Corrects NASA's Estimates of Earth Impact - Not! (Update) - Universe Today
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Space and astronomy news. Latest News on Apophis: 13 -year-old Boy Corrects NASA’s Estimates of Earth Impact — Not! Article Updated: 19 Jun , 2013. Update: It turns out this story is a fabrication and AFP didn’t check the facts with NASA as I suspected. According to the blog Cosmos4u,. Also, the scientist mentioned in AFP’s story said he wasn’t conferred with either by the news agency. So don’t give any heed to this story that has been running amok around the internet. The news piece goes on to say the s...
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Astronomers 'Time Travel' to 16th Century Supernova - Universe Today
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Space and astronomy news. Tycho's Supernova Remnant. Credit: Spitzer, Chandra and Calar Alto Telescopes. Astronomers ‘Time Travel’ to 16th Century Supernova. Article Updated: 24 Dec , 2015. The view of the light echoes from Tycho’s supernova. Credit: Subaru Telescope. The results of this study appear in the 4 December 2008 issue of the science journal Nature. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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Carnival of Space #98 - Universe Today
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Space and astronomy news. Carnival of Space #98. Article Updated: 29 Dec , 2015. I thought we’d give all the hosts a break for the holiday and host the Carnival of Space here at Universe Today. This is the 98th edition of the mighty carnival, which has been growing larger and larger with each week. Fortunately, space is a really big space, so there will always be room. Why Homeschool (the founder of the Carnival of Space) has this story on the agenda for Space Access 2009. I really want to see this movie.
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Antigravity Could Replace Dark Energy as Cause of Universe's Expansion - Universe Today
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Space and astronomy news. Illustration of Antimatter/Matter Annihilation. (NASA/CXC/M. Weiss). Antigravity Could Replace Dark Energy as Cause of Universe’s Expansion. Article Updated: 26 Apr , 2016. The field the particle is traveling in, the result is a change of sign. In the gravity term, making it negative instead of positive and implying so-called antigravity between the two. What about the fact that matter and antimatter are known to annihilate each other? Click to print (Opens in new window). Is th...
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