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Free planets for everyone… NASA’s great new world rush.
NASA’s Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the…
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January 2013
December 2012
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Voyager probe – finds alien life?
Well, maybe in the first Star Trek movie. In real life, though, NASA’s Voyager has just entered a new region far beyond our…
November 2012
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Mercury… ice planet!
A NASA spacecraft studying Mercury has provided support for the long-held hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials…
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Kepler… King of the Planet Hunters!
NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s 3 1/2- year…
October 2012
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International Space Station: 1998-2011 (All Stages) by David Baker (book review).
You might have thought until now that I was only going to be reviewing Haynes fantasy output, but knowing what some of the…
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Black hole flare’s one heck of a blast!
NASA’s newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant…
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Astronomers discover amazing new galactic trend!
A study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern…
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The planets of Alpha Centauri!
John Grunsfeld at NASA had this to say to SFcrowsnest about the discovery of an exo-planet around Alpha Centauri, our nearest solar system.…
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X-ray nova!
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The…
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The universe… big and getting bigger!
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our…
September 2012
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The ancient streams of Mars.
NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There…
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Our Galaxy? It’s a gas!
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas…