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NASA Needs Your Help To Find Earth-Destroying Asteroids
Welcome to the NASA Grand Challenge, where everyone from government agencies to citizen scientists will compete to figure out the best way to detect and study earth-threatening asteroids. This is a...
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Explore Mars In Fine Detail With New Panoramic Images
NASA just released these amazing billion pixel, interactive panoramic photographs of the surface of Mars, taken by the Curiosity rover. You can access them at NASA's website.The Curiosity rover has...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Supports Obama's Plan To Lasso An Asteroid
President Barack Obama wants to give NASA $100 million to figure out a way to lasso asteroids, a program that's being hotly debated in the U.S. House of Representatives.NASA is even asking for your...
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Supermoon 2013 Dates And When To Watch
The closest and largest full moon of the year, called a "supermoon" peaks on Sunday, June 23, 2013.A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon being closest to Earth in its orbit, also...
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Galaxies Collide In This New Vivid Image
The amazing image below is of two colliding galaxies that form Arp 142, am incredible star formation that looks like either a penguin or a hummingbird.The image was created by the Hubble Space...
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This Space Picture Changes Our Understanding Of How Black Holes Form
The European Space Observatory released on Wednesday the most detailed picture ever of dust around a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.Scientists expected to find a ring of cosmic dust...
View ArticleNEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Of Course Humans Will Kill Each Other In Space
War in space is something we often see in movies and TV shows, but it's quite a ways off from becoming a reality.Even so, history tells us that humans will almost definitely wage war in space.StarTalk...
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Gorgeous Pictures Of Supermoon 2013
On Sunday, June 23, a supermoon lit up the night sky. A supermoon occurs when a full moon gets closest to the Earth during its orbit. There are several supermoons each year, but the latest supermoon is...
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New Maps Show Where Plant Life Thrives On Earth
This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video shows where plants thrive on Earth and how this "greenness" changes with the seasons.The week-by-week changes in vegetation make allow...
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Voyager 1 Crossed Into An Unknown Region Of Space
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched by NASA in 1977, crossed an unexpected region of space last August, a report published in the journal Science confirmed on Thursday.The news was announced in December...
View ArticleOut Of This World Video Captures Mars' Moon Rising
On June 28, NASA's Curiosity rover observed one of Mars' two moons, Phobos, rising over the Red planet.The video is a compilation of 86 photos taken by Curiosity's navigation camera. It's is only about...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Aliens Might Be Living Among Us
A lot of people ask StarTalk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson if extraterrestrial life exists and why haven't we encountered any alien life yet."Maybe they have visited us in Times Square," Tyson tells...
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The Next Rover To Explore Mars Will Send Samples Back To Earth
The next highly-mobile rover to land on Mars will be designed to return samples from the Red Planet to Earth, according to a 160-page report [PDF] prepared by NASA's Mars 2023 Science Definition Team...
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What Are These Mysteriously Creepy Dancing Clouds? [GIFs]
The GIF below shows a weird cloud emitting some spooky, extraterrestrial flashes of light in the middle of the day.The clouds appears to be twitching and convulsing... maybe even, breathing?Aliens??...
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Manhattanhenge 2013 Dates And When To Watch
Barring forecasted thunderstorms and rain, Manhattanhenge will occur for the final time this year on Friday, July 12 and continue through sunset on Saturday, July 13. The beautiful sight seen above...
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NASA Releases The First-Ever Images Of Our Solar System's Tail
For the first time astronomers have observed our solar system's tail using NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX.Our sun releases a stream of charged particles, called solar wind, that forms a...
View ArticleAn Astronaut Explains How She Washes Her Long, Blonde Hair In Space
On the International Space Station, even the simplest things are hair-raising. Especially when they involve hair.Astronaut Karen Nyberg is spending six months on the space station, but she's kept her...
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Neptune Has A Newly-Discovered Moon
Neptune, the eighth and farthest planet from our Sun, now has 14 moons. NASA just announced the latest edition to the planet's lunar menagerie after analyzing images and data from the Hubble...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Didn't Think Curiosity Would Land Safely On Mars
Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks aliens might be living among us right now.So, what does the StarTalk Radio host think about NASA sending a rover to martian land? Well, he was skeptical that Curiosity would...
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The Giant Black Hole At The Center Of The Milky Way Is Destroying A Huge Gas...
Astronomers have spied a huge gas cloud being pulled like taffy around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.Their observations suggest that the space cloud will be completely...
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