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    Dark Energy

    What lies at the heart of modern physics – a kind of cosmic hole in the room. Physicists realise that when we look out 13.7 billion light years across the visible universe with our telescopes – whether at visible, infrared, gamma ray or x-ray wavelengths,...

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    Veteran Voyager 2 Spacecraft

    The twin Voyager spacecraft were launched in August and September of 1977 on board a Titan IIIE/Centaur boosters. Their missions, which they executed perfectly were to explore the giant outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Thirty three years later and billions of miles from...

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    Rockets to Race cars

    ozily positioned next to the piping hot kettle corn tent and across from the Panasonic HD 3D truck, NASA’s new traveling exhibit “From Rockets to Race Cars” made its NASCAR debut last weekend at Richmond International Raceway. From better brakes and safer tires, the exhibit...

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    Marine fuel sensor

    Boat owners now have a better idea of the amount and purity of their fuel thanks to a NASA-developed wireless sensor technology. Originally developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., to retrofit aging aircraft with vehicle safety monitoring equipment, the technology is a...

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  • HUNT FOR OTHER EARTHS

    HUNT FOR OTHER EARTHS

    As said in the national geographic.. It’s past midnight in the dim telescope control room, but Dominique Naef’s day has suddenly brightened. He twitches his computer cursor over a wavy line. “I like it,” the Swiss astronomer says, beaming. “I like it a lot. Wow.”...

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    Slushy Saturn

    Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is perhaps best know for its unique, hazy atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane. But a new look at Titan’s insides reveals even more oddities: Beneath the brittle crust of ice lies a layer of slush. Deeper still is an underground...

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    Water in moon

    Recently NASA crashed two spacecraft into the moon and orbiters scanned the lunar surface for telltale light signatures—all to confirm the rocky body isn’t bone dry after all. Tiny amounts of water have been found in some of the famous moon rocks brought back to...

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  • Station Gains Unparalleled Views

    Station Gains Unparalleled Views

    The view from space has always had the “wow” factor. Now thanks to the bay window-like cupola attached to the new Tranquility node, the International Space Station has a panoramic view that takes the wow factor to the max. The STS-130 astronauts delivered the two...

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    Aurora Borealis

    Picture yourself outside on a clear dark night. Low on the horizon you notice a faint glow of greenish light which forms an arch, stretching lazily across the sky. As time passes, additional bands of light form and drift overhead, slowly brightening to form giant...

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  • Annular Eclipse Over China

    Annular Eclipse Over China

    The first and most beautiful solar eclipse of the decade worded the ‘Ring of fire’ occurred on 15 January, 2010. This marvelous event is also known as annular eclipse, because a bright annulus or ring of sun light remains visible even when the moon is...

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