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NASA Successfully Launches Swift Satellite |
| NASA's Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The satellite will pinpoint the location of distant yet fleeting explosions that appear to signal the births of black holes - NASA |
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Europe Reaches The Moon |
| ESA’s SMART-1 is successfully making its first orbit of the Moon, a significant milestone for the first of Europe's Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology (SMART) spacecraft - ESA |
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NASA's X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record |
| NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books today, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered research vehicle show its revolutionary engine worked successfully at approximately Mach 10, nearly 7000 mph, as it flew at an altitude of approximately 110,000 feet - NASA |
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Coprates Catena’s ‘Collapsed’ Structures |
| These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show the detailed structure of Coprates Catena, a southern part of the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars - ESA |
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Dwarfed By Storms |
| Tiny Mimas is dwarfed by a huge white storm and dark waves on the edge of a cloud band in Saturn's atmosphere - NASA/JPL |
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Subaru Witnesses Galactic Cannibalism In Action |
| Subaru telescope has witnessed a large galaxy in the act of devouring a small companion galaxy in a new image obtained by Yoshiaki Taniguchi (Tohoku University), Shunji Sasaki
(Tohoku University), Nicolas Scoville (California Institute of Technology) and colleagues. The evidence is a wispy band of stars extending over 500 thousand light years, the faintest and longest known example of its kind -
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Something Warm In A Very Dark Place |
| A team of 30 astronomers has used Spitzer to examine dozens of dark cloud cores. The hope is to get a good look at what happens just before a dark knot lights up inside with a newly condensed star - Sky and Telescope |
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How Did The First Stars Form? |
| Early star formation is a bit of a puzzle for astronomers, since all the stars that we can see formed out of molecular gas and dust, which are produced in stars. How did the first ones form without any gas and dust? One class of galaxies, called Blue Dwarf Galaxies may offer some clues - Universe Today |
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Repelling Cosmic Rays With Magnetic Bubbles |
| Astronauts could one day be protected from harmful cosmic rays during a long haul spaceflight by a powerful magnetic bubble generated by their own craft - New Scientist |
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Space Elevator? Build It On The Moon First |
| Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously predicted that we'd see space elevators 50 years after people stopped laughing at the idea. Jerome Pearson has been thinking about
space elevators since the early 1970s, and he's been watching the growing enthusiasm (and fading chuckles) with great interest - Universe Today |
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