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Cassini Successfully Arrives At Saturn |
| NASA's $3.3 billion Cassini probe completed a seven-year, 2.2-billion mile voyage tonight, firing its main engine for a nerve-wracking 96 minutes to successfully brake into orbit around the ringed planet Saturn - Spaceflight Now |
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Cassini Provides New Views Of Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon |
| The Cassini spacecraft has revealed surface details of Saturn's moon Titan and imaged a huge cloud of gas surrounding the planet-sized moon - SpaceDaily |
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Sea Launch Rocket Fails To Put Satellite In Correct Orbit |
| An Asian telecommunications spacecraft was deployed in the wrong orbit by its sea-launched rocket early Tuesday, but the satellite's maker is confident that the altitude shortfall can be overcome without jeopardizing the mission - Spaceflight Now |
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ISS Crew Successfully Completes Spacewalk At Second Attempt |
| Gennady Padalka returned to the International Space Station early Thursday after a successful second attempt at a spacewalk, Russian mission control said - SpaceDaily |
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Hubble Discovers 100 New Planets |
| The Hubble Space Telescope may have discovered as many as 100 new planets orbiting stars in our galaxy - BBC NEWS |
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This Star Just Shut Down |
| Astronomers have found a white dwarf star which has shut down its fusion reactor very recently - perhaps only 100 years ago - Universe Today |
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Seeing Double: Spitzer Captures Our Galaxy's Twin |
| What would our Milky Way galaxy look like if we could travel outside it and snap a picture? It might look a lot like a new image by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of a spiral galaxy called NGC 7331 - a virtual twin of our Milky Way - Spaceflight Now |
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Asteroids Make Tau Ceti Lethal |
| Astronomers have found that a nearby star, Tau Ceti, is surrounded by 10 times as many asteroids and comets as our own Solar System - Universe Today |
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SpaceShipOne Took 'Trajectory Excursion' |
| Flight data from the first private vehicle to soar beyond the Earth's atmosphere has been posted by Scaled Composites, designer and builder of the SpaceShipOne. The flight was not trouble-free - CNN.com |
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A Connection Between Dark Energy And Dark Matter? |
| The concepts of Dark Matter (hidden mass that surrounds all galaxies) and Dark Energy (an accelerating force on the Universe) are still largely mysteries; astronomers have detected them, but they have no conclusive idea what they are. A new theory by Vanderbilt University researcher Robert Scherrer proposes that they are actually two aspects of a single, unknown force, called a K-essence field - Universe Today |
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