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1. Lulin

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   NASA's Swift satellite views Comet Lulin as it made it closest approach to Earth in February 2009. Lulin, like all comets, is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. These "dirty snowballs" cast off gas ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

2. Watch Live Webcast of Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid Lutetia July 10

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   ... OSIRIS Team On July 10, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will fly past 21 Lutetia, the largest asteroid ever visited by a satellite. After weeks of maneuvers and optical observations, Rosetta is perfectly ... Friday, 09 July 2010

3. Icy Triton

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   ... satellite of Neptune and is one of the few bodies in the solar system known to have a nitrogen-dominated atmosphere. The others are Earth and Saturn's giant moon, Titan. Triton is so cold that most of ... Monday, 05 July 2010

4. All-Sky Stunner from Planck

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   ... image it is! The Planck satellite looks at the entire sky in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, (30 to 857 GHz) with the main goal of tracking down the echoes of the Big Bang, the ... Monday, 05 July 2010

5. New Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris To Launch

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   The Air Force Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system. Credit: Boeing The U.S. Air Force will launch the first-ever satellite dedicated solely to tracking the positions of other satellites and the ... Monday, 05 July 2010

6. New Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris To Launch

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   The Air Force Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system. Credit: Boeing The U.S. Air Force will launch the first-ever satellite dedicated solely to tracking the positions of other satellites and the ... Monday, 05 July 2010

7. Finding the Origin of Milky Way's Ancient Stars

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   Simulation showing a Milky Way-like galaxy around five billion years ago, when most satellite galaxy collisions were happening. Credit: Andrew Cooper, John Helly (Durham University) From the Royal Astronomical ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

8. Earth's Gravity Seen in HD

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   New map of Earth's gravity field from GOCE. Credit: ESA The sleek and sexy-looking GOCE satellite has provided a new, finely detailed look at Earth's gravity – in high definition. This is the first-ever ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

9. ISS Will Be in Constant Sunlight the Next Few Days

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   ... on Heaven's Above, or NASA's NASA has a Skywatch page where you can find your specific city to look for satellite sighting info. Spaceweather.com, has a Satellite Tracker Tool. Just put in your ... Friday, 25 June 2010

10. Climate Change Contributes to Space Junk Problem

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... the space environment. New Scientist reports that increased carbon dioxide levels are cooling the upper atmosphere, which decreases the atmospheric density. This in turn affects how long defunct satellites, ... Friday, 25 June 2010

11. Gulf Oil Leak: Day 62 Update

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    Satellite image of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, as seen on June 19, 2010. Credit: MODIS Rapid Response Team. Here's the latest satellite image of the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The ... Monday, 21 June 2010

12. Light for the Ages

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... fall to winter in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. In this image from 2007, NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites provided the first three-dimensional images of the sun. STEREO, ... Sunday, 20 June 2010

13. Latest Satellite Views of Oil Leak, Plus Dramatic Video of Where the Oil May End Up

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    Satellite view of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 12, 2010, from the Aqua satellite. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team. 56 days into the the still-leaking Deepwater Horizon ... Monday, 14 June 2010

14. South Korean Rocket Explodes 137 Seconds Into Flight

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    A South Korean rocket carrying a climate observation satellite apparently exploded 137 seconds into its flight early Thursday. The two-stage Naro rocket operated normally during and after liftoff from ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

15. Viewing Alert: New Series "Through the Wormhole"

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    For those lucky enough to get the Science Channel on cable or satellite, there's an exciting new series called "Through the Wormhole" hosted and produced by Academy Award-winning actor ... Tuesday, 08 June 2010

16. Man-Made Aurora Will Help to Better Predict Space Weather

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    ... previous understanding of the processes that create the aurorae – which can also adversely affect orbiting satellites– may have been in error. (...) Read the rest of Man-Made Aurora Will Help to ... Monday, 07 June 2010

17. Lagoons of New Caledonia

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched December 18, 1999, on NASA's Terra satellite. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, ... Monday, 07 June 2010

18. A Trilogy of Tremendous Volcanoes

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    ... Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. Snow is white, clouds are pink, vegetation is red, and water is almost black. The Alaska Volcano Observatory ... Friday, 04 June 2010

19. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: June 4-6, 2010

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    Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Sorry to be so late, but satellite internet connections and electrical storms don't mix! Even though there's not a snowball's chance in the desert of observing ... Friday, 04 June 2010

20. China Launches Fourth Nav Satellite

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    Xichang, China (XNA) Jun 04, 2010 - China successfully launched its fourth orbiter into space at 23:53 Wednesday, as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, ... Thursday, 03 June 2010