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Thackeray’s Globules in IC 2944
Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds – known as “globules” – are silhouetted […]
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For peace and quiet, try the Moon
Astronomers are taking the search for somewhere quiet to work to new extremes with a plan to put a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. The advantage […]
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Orbital Selected by JPL for $80 Million Contract to Design and Build First Main-Belt Asteroid Spacecraft
NASA-Sponsored Dawn Mission to Journey to Solar System’s Two Largest ‘Baby Planets’ Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected to develop and build the first spacecraft designed to orbit main-belt asteroids, […]
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Tiger Loose in Antarctica, Searching for Cosmic Ray Origin
A balloon-borne experiment now flying high above Antarctica is headed for an unprecedented second loop around the South Pole in search of the origin of cosmic rays, atomic particles that […]
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‘TIGER’ scientists stalk elusive origin of cosmic rays
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL–Floating 125,000 feet above the Antarctic ice sheet, a balloon-borne experiment is making an unprecendented second loop around the South Pole, probing the heavens for the origin […]
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Hubble Captures Opaque Globules in Space
Strangely glowing, floating dark clouds are silhouetted against nearby bright stars in a busy star-forming region viewed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The image showing dense, opaque dust clouds — […]
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Implementation of the Recommendations of the UK NEO Task Force: An Update
It is now over 9 months since the initial Government response to the recommendations of the Task Force that I set up to report on potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects […]
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Helium-3 in Milky Way Reveals Abundance of Matter in Early Universe
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s 140 Foot Radio Telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., were able to infer the amount of matter created by the Big Bang, and confirmed that […]
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NYU scientists advance toward nanorobots
A team of New York University researchers has taken a major step in building a more robust, controllable machine from DNA, the genetic material of all living organisms. Constructed from […]
