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1. New Episode of This Week In Space With Miles O'Brien

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien highlights: Space hits the red carpet: IMAX: Hubble 3D debuts at the Air and Space Museum, a Falcon 9 "hot fire" disappoints, the shuttle program ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

2. Successful Engine Test Firing for SpaceX Inaugural Falcon 9

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   ... flight of the Falcon 9 rocket which SpaceX is building. This success follows an aborted test firing attempt on Thursday (Mar 11) and several other delays due to poor weather at the Cape this week. The ... Saturday, 13 March 2010

3. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup

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   ... Kelvin. Achieved at the almost speed of light collision of gold ions, this resulted in the temporary existence of quark-gluon soup – something first seen at about ten to the power of minus twelve of the ... Saturday, 13 March 2010

4. World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC"

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   ... the black hole, it sprays some of this energy back out into the universe as a jet of particles. (...) Read the rest of World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" (866 words) ... Thursday, 11 March 2010

5. Galaxy Study Validates General Relativity On Cosmic Scale

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   ... - at least up to a distance of 3.5 billion light years from Earth - plays by the rules set out 95 years ago by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

6. Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow Tracked Deeper Into Universe

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   ... led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion - dubbed the "dark flow" - to twice the distance originally reported. ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

7. SpaceX Falcon 9 Test Fire Ends with Abort

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   Screenshot of the Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday. Credit: Spaceflightnow.com No official word from SpaceX yet, but it appears the 3.5 second test-fire on Tuesday of the Falcon 9 rocket aborted immediately ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

8. Where's My Jetpack? Right Here

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   The Martin Jetpack in flight. Image courtesy Martin Jetpack Step right up — you can now get your very own jetpack. That's right, a real, not-science-fiction-honest-to-goodness jetpack. New ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

9. A Mosaic of Cassiopeia

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   ... Nebula, a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is more than 6,000 light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two nearby galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. In visible light ... Monday, 08 March 2010

10. Bully Galaxy Rules The Neighborhood

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    Paris, France (ESA) Mar 08, 2010 - Located half a billion light-years from Earth, ESO 306-17, is a large, bright elliptical galaxy in the southern sky of a type known as a fossil group. Astronomers use ... Monday, 08 March 2010

11. ASTRA 3B Topped Off For Arianespace Year-Opening Flight

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    Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 09, 2010 - Satellite preparations for Ariane 5's initial launch of 2010 have moved into a new phase with the fueling of ASTRA 3B - which is one of two passengers to be ... Monday, 08 March 2010

12. Obama to Unveil "Ambitous" Plan for NASA

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... House. The President will host a conference on April 15, inviting space officials and leaders to discuss the new budget and plan for NASA and the future of U.S. leadership in human space flight. The ... Monday, 08 March 2010

13. Lava Likely Made River-Like Channel On Mars

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    ... the surface of Mars. These results were presented on March 4, 2010 at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by Jacob Bleacher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

14. X-51 Getting Ready For First Flight

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    Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - There's some pretty exciting stuff going on at Edwards Air Force Base as the flight test center team gets ready to conduct an awe-inspiring X-51 first flight. The ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

15. Obama to host April space conference

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    Washington (AFP) March 7, 2010 - US President Barack Obama will host a space conference next month in Florida to chart his vision for the future of human spaceflight, the White House said Sunday. ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

16. Taking The Pulse Of A Supernova – NGC 4490

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    NGC 4490/4485 – T. Grossman, D. Hager and R. Johnson Way out yonder some 40 to 50 million light years away in the constellation of Canes Venetici is a pair of interacting galaxies sometimes referred ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

17. Winds of Change

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    ... study is much deeper than previous X-ray observations. Using this data, researchers believe that each year several times the mass of our sun is being deposited out to large distances, about 3,000 light ... Thursday, 04 March 2010

18. Best "Blue Marble" Images Yet

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    The Goddard Space Flight Center has a Flickr account showcasing a series of images of our own home planet. Called "Blue Marble," these spectacular images are the most detailed true-color image ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

19. An Island Of Stars In The Making On The Outskirts Of Orion

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    ... Although this ghostly cloud is rather isolated from Orion's bright stars, the latter's powerful winds and light have had a strong impact on the nebula, forging its shape and making it home to a multitude ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

20. From NACA To NASA: 95 Years Of Innovation In Flight

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    Washington DC (SPX) Mar 04, 2010 - Ninety-five years ago a committee of 12 volunteers with a budget of $5,000 embarked on a mission to change the face of U.S. aviation, and in doing so established a ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010