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1. This Week in Space — Apollo-Soyuz Anniversary Edition

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   ... and more. There's also a look at Virgin Galactic's latest test flight and a look at the latest of what's going in Congress with NASA's budget. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. ... Wednesday, 28 July 2010

2. Into the Looking Glass

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   Recently, technicians at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., completed a series of cryogenic tests on six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments at the center's X-ray ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

3. Tools Get Loose During ISS Spacewalk

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   ... outside the International Space Station earlier today, outfitting the newest module for future dockings of Russian vehicles. Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko set up the Kurs automated ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

4. Dreamy, Young Stars

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   ... peak in brightness; shifting cold and hot spots on the stars' surfaces cause brightness levels to change. In addition, surrounding disks of lumpy planet-forming material can obstruct starlight. Spitzer ... Sunday, 25 July 2010

5. Astronauts in the Oval Office

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   ... Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer; STS-132 Mission Specialists Piers Sellers, Garret Reisman, and Steve Bowen; President Obama; STS-132 Mission Specialist Michael Good; and STS-132 Pilot Tony Antonelli. Official ... Sunday, 25 July 2010

6. Fractured

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   ... abundant small ripples of wind-blown material. However, a pit in the floor of the crater has exposed light-toned, fractured rock. The light-toned material appears fractured at several different scales. ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

7. Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth!

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   Zooming in on a giant: the Tarantula Nebula in the visible light on the left, a zoomed-in image of the location of R 136 in the center panel, and the R 136 cluster in the lower right of the last panel. ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

8. Europa Analog Deep-Sea Vents Discovered in the Caribbean

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   ... nutrients to support thriving ecosystems that can live without any sunlight. "This was probably the highest-risk expedition I have ever undertaken," said chief scientist Chris German, a Woods ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

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

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   The quasi-stellar object SDSS J0013+1523 has been shown to warp the light of a background galaxy around it, producing a magnified double-image from our perspective on Earth. Image Credit: Courbin, Meylan, ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

10. Take Your Children to Work Day

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    ... and many other professions. Pictured here, children explore the Exploration Experience exhibit at the Marshall Space Flight Center during a previous "Take Your Children to Work Day." The exhibit showcases ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

11. Lunar Forums and Anniversaries

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    ... LCROSS and more. If you'd like to know more about the Forum, I did a 365 Days of Astronomy podcast for NLSI to preview some of the highlights of the Forum, and talked with with Greg Schmidt, the ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

12. Celebrating Apollo 11

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    NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials joined with flight controllers to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in the Mission Control Center. From left foreground ... Monday, 19 July 2010

13. Virgin's Spaceship Enterprise Makes First Crewed Flight

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    For the first time, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, named the Enterprise, flew with crew on board. While it stayed attached to the "Eve" mothership for the duration of the July 15 flight, ... Monday, 19 July 2010

14. Developers Say Lunar Elevator Could be Built Within a Decade

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    ... easy access to orbit that a space elevator promises is likely still decades away. The biggest problem rests on the fact that no one has been able to successfully manufacture long ribbons made of ultra-light, ... Monday, 19 July 2010

15. Boatload of Herschel Science Papers Released

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    ... keep you busy for a while. 152 papers were released this morning highlighting the Herschel telescope's first science results. A few papers describe the observatory and its instruments, and the rest ... Friday, 16 July 2010

16. The View From Easter Island

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    ... an image of the sun taken in extreme ultraviolet light at about the same time by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The composite brings out the correlation of structures ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

17. Aerojet AJ26 Rocket Engine Arrives at Stennis

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    ... of flight engines. Stennis will provide propulsion system acceptance testing for the Taurus II space launch vehicle, which is being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va. The first Taurus ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

18. Swift Briefly Blinded by Mega X-ray Blast

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    ... gamma-ray burst is by far the brightest light source ever seen in X-ray wavelengths at cosmological distances," said David Burrows, senior scientist and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

19. Pluto Goes into the Dark

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    ... stars. Still, Pluto – distant and dim as it is – is just a faint point of light, so John took special measures. "Although Pluto was easily visible in a short 5 minute exposure, I took an hour exposure ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

20. In the Constellation Cassiopeia

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    ... Previous observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nature of the light that WISE sees from the supernova remnant is emission from dust heated by the shock wave. To the right is a ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010