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• COROT Mission Completes Third Year

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 130
  In a paper available online here , the European Space Agency’s (ESA) COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits (COROT) mission released a summary of its results to date. The paper also provides an excellent review of the mission and its goals, as well as its success in monitoring over 100,000 stars, and ...
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• GOCE satellite probing how pull of gravity varies across Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  London, December 25 (ANI): Reports indicate that Europe’s GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) satellite is returning remarkable new data on the way the pull of gravity varies across Earth.GOCE was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in March from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in ...
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• ESA Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Ariane Booster

  
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  Yesterday, the European Space Agency (ESA), Arianespace and CNES (French space agency) celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Ariane rocket booster with a film displayed in the center of Paris on a large outdoor screen. You can read about the anniversary and catch a copy of the film shown online now here . Sorry we ...
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• Gaia to lift off from Europes Spaceport on a Soyuz launcher

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 133
  Gaia, ESAs next-generation star mapper, will be carried into space by a Soyuz-STB/Fregat launch vehicle from Europes Spaceport in French Guiana. David Southwood, ESAs Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, signed the contract for the launch with Jean-Yves LeGall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, at ESA ...
  5 days ago

• Silicon technology to enable clearest X-ray view yet of most violent regions of space

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Paris, December 22 (ANI): An European Space Agency (ESA) led effort is all set to use silicon technology to enable astronomy’s clearest X-ray view yet of the most violent regions of space.“ESA has been working with specialist European firms to develop this new optical technique and build up a supporting ...
  6 days ago

• Herschel Space Observatory sheds new light on how stars and galaxies are made

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  London, December 19 (ANI): The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a preview of the first science results from the Herschel Space Observatory, which would provide valuable new information about how stars and galaxies are made and reveal the life cycle of the cosmos.The new data includes images of previously ...
  1 week ago

• Hubble captures baby solar systems emerging from a stellar

  
  Blog For Noob Dot Com | Noob Blogger — Authority: 122
  The centre of the spinning disc heats up and becomes a new star, but remnants around the outskirts of the disc attract other bits of dust and clump together. Scientists believe these are the building blocks of planets. Hubble has found more than 150 proplyds inside the Orion nebula with 42 discovered in the most ...
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• Martian moons Phobos and Deimos captured on camera together for first time

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Paris, December 12 (ANI): ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Mars Express has caught together on camera for the first time the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.The images were acquired with the Super Resolution Channel (SRC) of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The camera took 130 images of the moons on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mars’ Moons Phobos and Deimos in Same Picture for First Time

  
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  The European Space Agency (ESA) released images this morning taken by the Mars Express spacecraft. For the first time, both moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, appear in the same photograph. In fact, ESA released a video which shows the two approach one another (in the frame of the camera). Check out the video, and the ...
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• Google Earth launched new imagery and terrain for Mars.

  
  JustBol — Authority: 138
  Few hours ago, Google Earth team announced new imagery and terrain for Mars in Google Earth application. Now Google Earth users can see the new updated areas highlighted in red for imagery and for terrains it is highlighted on white color.The images are taken from the High Resolution Stereo Camera of European Space ...
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• City-sized iceberg heading towards Australia

  
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  Sydney, Dec 10 (IANS) A giant iceberg 19 km long and eight km wide, or 150 square km in area, is drifting slowly north from the Antarctica towards Western Australia.The iceberg, known as B17B, was spotted by Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) glaciologist Neal Young using satellite images taken by NASA and the ...
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• XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 133
  ESAs XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During its decade of operation, this remarkable space observatory has supplied new data for every aspect of astronomy. From our cosmic backyard to the further reaches of the Universe, XMM-Newton has changed the way we think of space.
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• NASA’s new satellite to search for undiscovered objects

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Washington, Dec 8 (DPA) NASA’s newest “eye” to be launched Wednesday is a satellite equipped with unprecedented infrared sensitivity to scope out cosmic objects unseen by other cameras.The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is to be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.Over the next ...
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• French to launch spy satellite on Wednesday

  
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  PARIS  – France plans to launch a military spy satellite on Wednesday, the defence ministry said, as Paris boosts spending on its independent surveillance from space despite closer military co-operation with the United States. Ariane 5 rocket This will be the first such launch under President Nicolas ...
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• Antsy Humming

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 127
  I dont understand the whole thing with the UN adopting A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall By Bob Dylan as their unofficial anthem for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in København , or Copenhagen as some people call it. That is, theyve adopted it, but not officially? Why is it not official? Is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Details of M-class Cosmic Vision candidates now available

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 133
  A series of formal presentations on the 6 medium-class candidate missions in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan was made to a large gathering of Europes scientific community on 1 December. This meeting marks the end of the assessment phase and the start of the down-selection process. The assessment study reports are now ...
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• Geography quiz: In space, who will accept your teeming masses?

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 474
  What is this famous landmark? This could be an interesting geography or history bell ringer.  What are these famous sites pictured above? Answer below the fold. Here’s the explanation from the European Space Agency (ESA) : 18 August 2006 This Proba image highlights Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Expedition 21 Soyuz – ISS Undocking, Landing & Crew Recovery

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Welcome back! The trip home to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) for Expedition 21 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency Flight Engineer Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency Flight Engineer Robert Thirsk on December 1, 2009, landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan ...
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• Unbelievable Facts

  
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  Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long The word “toy” comes from an old English word that means “tool.” Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers ...
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• NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Beings Journey Back Home

  
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  It was a launch that was marred by weather delays and other issues that had sprouted a hint of skepticism among the public in regards to the launch of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis. But,m everything went smoothly and Atlantis successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS). After successfully ...
  4 weeks ago

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