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Astronomers Find A New Kind Of Galaxy
Scientists have found green beans in the sky! Ok, not really, but they've named a newly discovered type of galaxy "green bean galaxies" because of their unusual appearance.The whole of the green bean...
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NASA Unveils The Clearest View Of Earth At Night Ever Captured
Scientists unveiled the most detailed view of what the Earth looks like at night at a news conference at the American Geophysical Union meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 5. The unprecedented nighttime view...
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NASA's Mars Program Will Need Billions More If Scientists Get Their Top...
ATTENDEES at the American Geophysical Union's autumn meeting in San Francisco were expecting to hear some big news about Mars. Sure enough, they got some—just not the sort they had anticipated. Until...
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Stunning New Animation Of Earth At Night Appears To Show Hurricane Sandy...
The most detailed picture of our planet at night was unveiled at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco today, Dec. 5. The incredible global view comes from a joint NASA-NOAA...
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There Are Hidden Volcanoes On The Moon
Last September, NASA launched a pair of twin spacecrafts, named Ebb and Flow, to get a closer look at the moon's gravity. The mission was called Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, better known...
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New Telescope Captures Fantastic Nebula Image
Meet the new state of the art survey telescope at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile, which has already captured an amazing picture of the star-forming Carina Nebula.The...
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Hubble Spots A Rare Ring Galaxy
The Hubble Telescope spotted a rare collision that formed when a small galaxy hit the center of spiral galaxy NGC 922, shooting out the other side, forming a ring structure 330 million years...
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Curiosity Rover Leaves A Mess On Mars
Even the Curiosity rover turns out to be somewhat of a litter bug. About 10 minutes before the one-ton robot dropped through the Martian atmosphere, it got rid of its cruise stage and two 165-pound...
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Mind-Blowing Moon Facts To Celebrate The Apollo Anniversary
Forty years ago today, Dec. 7, 1972, the astronauts of the Apollo 17 mission became the last people to launch into space and land on the Moon three days later.Even though we haven't sent any astronauts...
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Slamming A Spaceship Into An Asteroid Could Save The Earth One Day
It sounds like the plot of a bad Bruce Willis movie, but some experts are saying it should be a reality.In order to prepare for massive asteroids that could aim for Earth in the future, researchers...
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The Most Intense Meteor Shower Of The Year Is Coming
The Geminid meteor shower will put on a good show all week, but is expected to peak on Thursday night, Dec. 13, NASA says. The Geminid meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through a string of space...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson On Making Humans Immune To The Deadly Forces Of Space
Neil deGrasse Tyson is disappointed that robots are being sent into space instead of humans, and he is wondering if we can make ourselves immune to the deadly forces of space.Filmmaker and futurist...
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The Drill On NASA's $2.5-Billion Mars Rover Is Going To Break
The drill on NASA's $2.5-billion Curiosity rover will break. This is not likely to happen within the robot's scheduled two-year mission to explore Mars, but when it does, "all hell [will] break loose...
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Curiosity Rover Had To Practice Taking A Self-Portrait
At the end of October, NASA's Curiosity rover used the high-resolution camera on its robotic arm to snap more than 50 pictures of itself. The resulting self-portrait, first published in November, was...
View ArticleUFOs Spotted Over San Francisco And Brooklyn
Updated at 6:45 p.m. ETThe Mayan apocalypse believed by some to be taking place on Dec. 21, 2012, has apparently been preceded by multiple sightings of alleged UFOs hovering over major U.S. cities. In...
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An Asteroid Discovered Two Days Ago Zipped Between Us And The Moon This Morning
A newfound asteroid gave Earth a close shave early today, zipping between our planet and the moon just two days after astronomers first spotted it.The near-Earth asteroid 2012 XE54, which was...
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The Surface Of Mars Looks Like Busted Up Pavement
New pictures from the Mars Curiosity rover, which is hanging around an interesting looking area of Gale crater called Glenelg, look suspiciously like some neglected sidewalks I've seen. The images were...
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A Baby Picture Of The Universe
Seven previously unseen galaxies have been spotted by NASA's legendary Hubble telescope, giving scientists a farther look back into the universe than ever before. Astronomers think that our universe...
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The Best Meteor Shower Of The Year Peaks Tonight — Here's How To Watch
The Geminid meteor shower, described by astronomers as the most intense meteor shower of the year, peaks tonight, Thursday, Dec. 13. NASA will host a live Web cast of the shower tonight, starting at 11...
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Here's How One Astronaut Describes What A Shuttle Launch Feels Like
Later this month Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield will board the Russian Soyuz space shuttle and make his was to his new home, the International Space Station. In March he will become the...
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