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1. Did Kepler Scientist Leak Data? Um, Not Really

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   ... on both accounts in regards to the Kepler mission. Just last month, the Kepler team announced they had found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and 706 of these candidates potentially are planets ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

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

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   ... has lost mass over the course of its lifetime, and likely was about 320 solar masses at birth. That deserves a "Yikes!"(...) Read the rest of Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth! ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

3. Comet Whacked Neptune 230 Years Ago

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   ... they discover a way to travel back in time to witness a long-ago event? To make the discovery, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research actually used the Herschel Space Telescope's ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

4. Comet Whacked Neptune 200 Years Ago

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   ... they discover a way to travel back in time to witness a long-ago event? To make the discovery, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research actually used the Herschel Space Telescope's ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

5. Take Your Children to Work Day

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   ... NASA's accomplishments and goals, from the benefits of space exploration here on Earth, to the technologies NASA develops to explore our solar system. Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/Doug Stoffer ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

6. Boatload of Herschel Science Papers Released

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   ... are dedicated to observations of many astronomical targets from bodies in the Solar System to distant galaxies. Herschel is the only space observatory to cover a spectral range from the far infrared to ... Friday, 16 July 2010

7. Gallery of July 11 Solar Eclipse Images

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   The July 11, 2010 solar eclipse, as seen on Easter Island. Credit: Jonathan Doochin & Michael Doochin On July 11, 2010, the new moon passed directly in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse. ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

8. Wind Gust Gives Opportunity Rover a Power Boost

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   The Opportunity rover's solar panels got a cleaning sometime between Sol 2274 and 2299. Credit: NASA/JPL, collage and annotation by Stu Atkinson. Either some little Martians came by and gave the Opportunity ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

9. Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet

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   ... you happen to be speaking to someone from the gaseous extrasolar planet HD 209458b. New observations from the Hubble Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) confirm suspicions from 2003 that the planet HD 209458b ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

10. The View From Easter Island

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    On July 11, 2010, the new moon passed directly in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse in the South Pacific. In this image, the solar eclipse is shown in gray and white from a photo provided ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

11. Farewell Lutetia

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    ... of the asteroid's surface crust, record the solar wind in the vicinity and look for evidence of an atmosphere. The spacecraft passed the asteroid at a minimum distance of 3,160 kilometers (1,950 miles) ... Monday, 12 July 2010

12. Rosetta Meets Asteroid Lutetia

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    ... have seen a remnant of the Solar System’s creation," said Holger Sierks, principal investigator for the spacecraft's OSIRIS instrument, which combines a wide angle and a narrow angle camera. ... Monday, 12 July 2010

13. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Coloring In The Oort Cloud

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    ... deep red color. This red coloring will probably be a mix of ices, richly laced with organic compounds – and may represent remnants of the primordial material from which the solar system was formed. ... Saturday, 10 July 2010

14. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 9-11, 2010

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    ... interested in catching a total solar eclipse! If you can't travel that close, then let's travel far, far away as we take a look at the season's globular clusters… from easy to challenging! ... Friday, 09 July 2010

15. 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

16. July 11 Total Eclipse Among the Mysterious Moai

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    The Moai statues on Easter Island. A group of astronomers are now on the mysterious Easter Island, one of the few solid places to stand on Earth where a total solar eclipse will be visible on July 11, ... Friday, 09 July 2010

17. Solar Powered Airplane Successfully Flies Through the Night

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    Solar Impulse's Chief Executive Officer and pilot Andre Borschberg flyes in the solar-powered HB-SIA prototype airplane for its first night flight attempt near Payerne airport July 7, 2010. Credit: KEYSTONE/Dominic ... Thursday, 08 July 2010

18. Solar-Powered Airplane Attempts First Night Flight

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    Solar Impulse, which is the first airplane designed to fly day and night without fuel, is attempting to fly for the first time at night. The plane took off at 6:51 this morning, local time from the Payerne ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

19. 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

20. Graphite 'Whiskers' Found in Apollo Moon Rocks

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    ... period in the solar system's early history. "We were really surprised at the discovery of graphite and graphite whiskers," Steele said. "We were not expecting to see anything like ... Thursday, 01 July 2010