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• Studying how black holes grow

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  The whirlpool galaxy, m51, is one of many galaxies with supermassive black holes at their core. The galaxy has a central black hole of about one million solar masses. Image: NASA Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than ...
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• Clearest sign yet of dark matter detected

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Deep inside an abandoned iron mine in northern Minnesota, physicists may have spotted the clearest signal yet of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that is thought to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the universe. Detecting dark matter: this Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data shows the distribution of invisible ...
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• Avatar’s Moon Pandora Could Be Real, Planet-Hunters Say

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  This artists conception shows a hypothetical gas giant planet with an Earth-like moon similar to the moon Pandora in the movie Avatar. New research shows that, if we find such an "exomoon" in the habitable zone of a nearby star, the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to study its atmosphere and detect key gases ...
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• Stellar Nursery: Inside the Dark Heart of the Eagle

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  An unseen stellar nursery comes into view in this Herschel image. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into these colorful filaments of dust. The complex is part of a mysterious ring of stars called Goulds Belt. This image shows a dark cloud 1000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, the ...
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• Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Lake on Saturn’s Moon Titan

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  ScienceDaily (Dec. 18, 2009) — NASAs Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturns moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins. This image shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on ...
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• ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: MAROONED

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 554
  On this day in 1969, COLUMBIA PICTURES released MAROONED. Directed by JOHN STURGES, this B-movie with an A-list cast played on the paranoia that movies loved to use during the 60’s and early 70’s. To this day, MAROONED remains a great ‘matinee’ movie with a cast that features GREGORY PECK, RICHARD CRENNA, ...
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• U.S. Suborbital Space Plane Gets Boost from South Korea

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 141
  XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California announced today that it has been selected by the Yecheon Astro Space Center in South Korea as its "preferred supplier of suborbital space launch services." XCOR stated that it intends to supply services to the Center using the firms Lynx Mark II suborbital vehicle, pending United ...
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• Something Strange in the Sky? Report Your Observations

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 141
  Amateur and professional astronomers now have a new website to report any unexplained phenomena they view in the night sky - including suspect UFOs that might be visiting from afar. An Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) Observations Reporting Scheme has been set up within the framework of the International Year ...
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• Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Cooling Dramatically

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  New research shows that the outermost layer of the atmosphere will lose 3 percent of its density over the coming decade, a sign of the far-reaching impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. As the density declines, orbiting satellites experience less drag. Credit: ©UCAR.   SAN FRANCISCO — When the sun is ...
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• New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  This image of the meteorite, seen through a scanning electron microscope, shows bumps that resemble a fossilized colony of microbacteria. Some of the rounded bumps are preserved at the top of the surface and resemble individual spherical and ovoid-shaped microbes. Image credit: NASA. (PhysOrg.com) — In 1996, ...
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• NASA, Google offer more precise emissions tracking

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  In this publicly distributed handout image provided by NASA an artists conception of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite that splashed into the ocean near Antarctica in February 2009 is shown. Even if nations agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions, how will the world know if they are living up to their pledges? ...
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• Earth-Like Planets May Be Made of Carbon

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Could extrasolar planets consist of graphite and diamond? Earth-like planets around other stars may be composed not of stone but of carbon, with a graphite crust, diamond interior and tar oceans. Lynette Cook Astronomy is the science of the exotic, but the thing that astronomers most want to find is the ...
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• Trough Deposits on Mars Point to Complex Hydrologic Past

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  This HiRISE camera false-color image shows dozens of beds within a light-toned deposit located in a trough in the Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars. CRISM spectra suggest a general sulfate mineralogy for the light-toned deposit. However, the beds differ in brightness, color, thickness, and erosional properties, ...
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• Hubble Space Telescope Captures Massive Star-forming Region of Deep Space

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 136
  The above image, captured by and transmitted from the Hubble Space Telescope, in orbit around the Earth, shows the largest star-forming region in the vicinity of our Milky Way galaxy . According to NASA: “The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus ...
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• Worlds Away: Astronomers Begin to Uncover Nearby "Super-Earths"

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  A clone of Earth, or even a rough approximation, has proved a difficult thing for scientists to find. The catalogue of planets orbiting other stars grew to more than 400 entries in October , but the goal that drives much of the research into extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, is the discovery of a habitable world, ...
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• Looking for Life in the Multiverse

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  The typical Hollywood action hero skirts death for a living. Time and again, scores of bad guys shoot at him from multiple directions but miss by a hair. Cars explode just a fraction of a second too late for the fireball to catch him before he finds cover. And friends come to the rescue just before a villain’s knife ...
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• Gaia star mapper to lift off from Europe’s Spaceport on a Soyuz launcher

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Gaia will be the most accurate optical astronomy satellite ever built so far. Due for launch in 2011, it will continuously scan the sky for at least five years from a point in space known as the second Lagrangian point (or L2), located at about 1.6 million kilometres away from the Earth, in the direction opposite to ...
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• Secrets of Mysterious ‘Night-Shining’ Clouds Unlocked by NASA’s AIM Satellite and Models

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  This image of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) from the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (AIM-CIPS) instrument on July 14, 2009 in the northern polar region. The North Pole (90N) is in the center. Latitude bands of 80N, 70N, and 60N are also indicated by the light blue circles. (Credit: ...
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• Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn To Be Main Attraction during Flyby

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Artists concept of Cassinis Dec. 11 flyby of Saturns largest moon, Titan. Image credit: NASA/JPL (PhysOrg.com) — When it flies by Saturns largest moon, Titan, this weekend, NASAs Cassini spacecraft will study the interactions between the magnetic field of Saturn and Titan. The flyby will take place the evening ...
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• NASA Launches Web Site for Teenagers That Want More Class

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  (PhysOrg.com) — NASA has launched a new Web site created specifically for teenagers that provides teens access to current NASA spacecraft data for use in school science projects, allows them to conduct real experiments with NASA scientists, and helps them locate space-related summer internships. Called "Mission: ...
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