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Solar Minimum Explodes |
| With a burst of activity on the sun, solar minimum is looking strangely like Solar Max - Science @ NASA |
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Most Distant Explosion Detected, Smashes Previous Record |
| Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite and several ground-based telescopes have detected the most distant explosion yet, a gamma-ray burst from the edge of the visible
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Cassini Radar Images Show Dramatic Shoreline On Titan |
| Images returned during Cassini's recent flyby of Titan show captivating evidence of what appears to be a large shoreline cutting across the smoggy moon's southern hemisphere - NASA/JPL |
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Black Hole In Search Of A Home |
| A team of European astronomers has used two of the most powerful astronomical facilities available, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal, to find a bright quasar without a massive host galaxy - Space Telescope Science Institute |
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Ghostly Spokes In Saturn's Rings Spotted By Cassini |
| Scientists are celebrating the first Cassini spacecraft sighting of spokes, the ghostly radial markings discovered in Saturn's rings by NASA's Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago - NASA/JPL |
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Hayabusa Arrives At Asteroid Itokawa |
| After a 27-month interplanetary cruise under ion power, Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft finally reaches the small asteroid that will be its home for three months - Sky and Telescope |
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A Giant Surprise |
| Giant stars with planets often have smaller amounts of heavy elements than the Sun, say astronomers in the United States and Germany - Astronomy |
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Shuttle To Plug Into Space Station Power |
| A system that reroutes power from the International Space Station to a docked space shuttle will allow the shuttles to make extended trips to the station - New Scientist |
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Calling All Radio Amateurs |
| Radio amateurs worldwide are being asked to help collect data from the student-built SSETI Express satellite, due to be placed in orbit on 27 September
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DIY Satellites Reinvent The Space Race |
| An ambitious program called CubeSat, developed at Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is giving students and companies the opportunity to build and launch functional satellites into low Earth orbit, or about 240 to 360 miles above the planet - CNET News.com |
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