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Star Wars And Star Trek Got Warp Speed Totally Wrong
The science fiction vision of stars flashing by as streaks when spaceships travel faster than light isn't what the scene would actually look like, a team of physics students says.Instead, the view out...
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Curiosity Prepares For Its Biggest Engineering Task Since Landing On Mars
The Curiosity rover is gearing up for its biggest engineering task since landing on the surface Mars: Drilling into a rock on the Red Planet. The mission team has identified a flat rock within a...
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New Image Shows Stars Being Born From A Shadow-Monster Gas Cloud
New stars are born from collapsing clouds of dust and gas, which often show up as dark splotches out there in the universe. A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows how super-bright...
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The Cassini Spacecraft Captured An Unprecedented Storm On Saturn
Just as regions of our planet have monsoon season, or tornado season, so too does Saturn have its own stormy season.Once every Saturn year or so—which corresponds to roughly 30 Earth years—a giant,...
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Scientists Just Found The Missing Mid-Sized Black Holes
Australian researchers have redefined the relationship between galaxies and their black holes, showing that a widely-accepted method for calculating the mass of smaller black holes was wrong.The...
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This Image Of Jupiter Is So Detailed It Seems Fake
The stunning image below was captured by Voyager 1 34 years ago, but Björn Jónsson has just strung together 14 pictures captured by the satellite, which is currently on its way out of the solar system...
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Asteroid Mining Company To Reveal Plans For Hammering Into Space Rocks
As Earth's precious resources run low, some companies are looking skyward to replenish our planet's supply of rare metals and other key elements. A new firm called Deep Space Industries just announced...
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Mining Company Will Use 3D Printer To Turn Raw Asteroids Into Valuable Metal...
Deep Space Industries, a newly formed company, announced plans today, Jan. 22, to launch the world's first fleet of asteroid-hunting spacecraft to search for space rocks that can be harvested for...
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The Very First Pictures Of Mars At Night
Mars Curiosity Rover just downloaded some great pictures of Mars at night. These were the first the rover has taken of the Red Planet at night. Check them out below.Here's a picture of Martian rock...
View ArticleTime-Lapse Video Shows Actual Stellar Explosion From 1901
Phil Plait over at Slate posted this time-lapse video from a series of images of the GK Persei supernova, which exploded and became visible to the naked eye from Earth in 1901.When the light first...
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Thirty Years Ago, Everyone Thought A Nuclear Satellite Was Going To Fall From...
Thirty years ago this month, the world was plagued with fear over a nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite tumbling out of control in an orbit close to Earth. The spiraling spacecraft, named Cosmos...
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Something Weird Happened To NASA's Twitter This Evening
Looks like something weird happened to @NASA twitter account. The agency has since taken the tweets down. We don't know if they were actually hacked, but it's possible that someone's wires got crossed...
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Mining Asteroids Could Make 'Warp Drive' Possible
Exploiting the many resources of our solar system may enable humanity to venture beyond its confines for the first time, and blaze a trail to other stars.Building a spaceship that can travel to other...
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Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Is On A Cosmic Crash Course
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the famed constellation Orion is on a collision course with a strange wall of interstellar dust, with the clock ticking down to a cataclysmic cosmic smashup in...
View ArticleMixed Nuts Look Really Strange When Floating In Zero Gravity
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who is currently living on the International Space Station, has been posting like a wild man from the International Space Station, most frequently beautiful pictures...
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New Boundaries Mean Some Planets We Thought Were Habitable Actually Aren't
One of the most important characteristics of an alien planet is whether or not it falls into what's called the habitable zone — a Goldilocks-like range of not-too-close, not-too-far distances from the...
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There Was A Weird Bright Red Cloud Trail Over The East Coast
If you were on the East coast on Tuesday night and saw a bright red streak through the sky, you weren't alone. A NASA rocket test left a trail of red light through the night sky, as a test run in...
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NASA Employees Almost Mutinied Over Living On Mars Time
Having an extra 40 minutes in your day sounds awesome to some people, but after months of living on Mars time (their day is 40 minutes longer than our day here on Earth) NASA employees were on the...
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Soon The Rest Of The World Will Get To Experience What Astronauts Call The...
Soon the rest of humanity will get to watch what astronauts see when they look out of the windows of the International Space Station."There's something that astronauts have that's described as the...
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How To Cut Your Nails In Zero Gravity
One of the lesser known obstacles of space travel is cutting your nails without making a huge mess. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield explains:"[Fingernail bits] won't fall to the ground...
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