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1. Prometheus: the Michelangelo of Saturn

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   ... 92 miles across) periodically creates streamer-channels in the F ring, and the moon's handiwork can be seen as the dark channels. Here's a movie made from Cassini images showing this process: ... Monday, 26 July 2010

2. First Quasar Gravitational Lens Discovered (w/video)

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   ... fantastic images of rings, arcs and crosses composed of massive galaxies light years away. As the light from a background object is bent by gravity around a foreground object, multiple, magnified images ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

3. WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey

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   This view of the Pleiades star cluster is a composite of hundreds of WISE images, a tiny fraction of all those collected to complete the full-sky survey. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA If you take ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

4. Gallery of July 11 Solar Eclipse Images

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   ... and Michael Doochin, who graciously shared several of the images included here. You can also check out Jonathan's Twitpic page for more pictures of the eclipse as seen on Easter Island. (...) Read ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

5. External Tank for Final Scheduled Shuttle Mission Arrives at KSC (Gallery)

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   ... the external tank for the final scheduled space shuttle mission, STS-134. Enjoy this gallery of images, (because it is something that might only happen one more time…). There was also a surprise ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

6. Pluto Goes into the Dark

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   ... wonderful astronomical images, check out John's website, Galactic Images. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Astrophotos, Pluto Feed ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

7. Conduct Virtual Explorations of Mars with New WorldWide Telescope Feature

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   Screenshot showing Olympus Mons in 3-D using the World Wide Telescope. Love 3-D imagery of Mars? There's now a firehose just for you! The WorldWide Telescope has teamed up with NASA to use images ... Monday, 12 July 2010

8. Rosetta Meets Asteroid Lutetia

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   ... up images of this battered, cratered body. By all accounts, the flyby was a spectacular success with Rosetta performing faultlessly. Closest approach took place at 16:10 GMT on July 10, at a distance ... Monday, 12 July 2010

9. Are You Keeping an Eye on SDO Keeping an Eye on the Sun?

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   Have you been checking out the Solar Dynamics Observatory website and seeing all the amazing, high resolution images of our closest star? If not, you should. Above is a great new video of SDO's ... Friday, 09 July 2010

10. Tanks for the Memories

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    ... – no decision yet if NASA will get one additional mission. You can see a gallery of images from Thursday's New Orleans' style celebration at this NASA Flickr page. (...) Read the rest of Tanks ... Friday, 09 July 2010

11. A Place in History

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    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings after a drive on the 2,220th Martian day, or ... Tuesday, 06 July 2010

12. Icy Triton

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    Taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system, this is a global color mosaic of Triton. The color was synthesized by combining high-resolution images taken through orange, violet and ... Monday, 05 July 2010

13. R Coronae Australis: A Cosmic Watercolor

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    ... release: This magnificent view of the region around the star R Coronae Australis was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. R Coronae Australis ... Wednesday, 30 June 2010

14. Opportunity Rover Able to See More Detail of Endeavour Crater

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    ... images from the rover. Several high points along the rim can be correlated with points discernible from orbit. (...) Read the rest of Opportunity Rover Able to See More Detail of Endeavour Crater (222 ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

15. See the Sunrise Daily at Kennedy Space Center

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    ... melt with delight. Thanks to Jen Scheer, a shuttle technician at KSC, anyone can see the sunrise at KSC almost every day. Jen takes tons of images at KSC and shares them via Twitter (follow her @flyingjenny) ... Friday, 25 June 2010

16. Who Will Win the Google Lunar X PRIZE?

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to Earth. (...) Read the rest of Who Will Win the Google Lunar X PRIZE? (639 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment ... Thursday, 24 June 2010

17. Earth Moved Substantially in April 2010 Earthquake

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... recent aftershocks are denoted by yellow, orange and red dots. Image credit: NASA/JPL/USGS/Google › From a JPL press release. NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

18. Best Class Project Ever: 7th Graders Find a Cave on Mars

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    ... University, which takes advantage of the huge database of images taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The students found the skylight pit on the slope of an equatorial volcano named Pavonis Mons, and ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

19. Gulf Oil Leak: Day 62 Update

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... burned as part of the emergency response efforts. The MODIS team is putting out about two satellite images of the region a day, which can be seen at this link. Below is a video from reporter David Hammer ... Monday, 21 June 2010

20. Titan + Dione = New Desktop

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    ... miles across), and was taken on April 10, 2010. No images available yet from Cassini's extremely close flyby of Titan over the weekend where it buzzed the hazy moon at an altitude of just 880 kilometers ... Monday, 21 June 2010