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1. Comet Whacked Neptune 230 Years Ago

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... 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

2. Comet Whacked Neptune 200 Years Ago

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... 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

3. Swift Briefly Blinded by Mega X-ray Blast

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory on June 21, 2010. The X-rays traveled through space for 5-billion years before slamming into and overwhelming the space-based telescope. "This ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

4. In the Constellation Cassiopeia

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... 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

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

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Greetings, Fellow SkyWatchers! Is it hot enough for you where you live? Not if you're in the southern hemisphere… But this weekend the southern hemisphere is the place to be if you're ... Friday, 09 July 2010

6. Tanks for the Memories

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   An aerial view of space shuttle tank ET-138 -- the last one -- as it rolls out at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: NASA Almost the end of an era: the last external tank ... Friday, 09 July 2010

7. Who Will Win the Google Lunar X PRIZE?

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Twenty-one teams are hard at work trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon. The GLXP folks released a video this ... Thursday, 24 June 2010

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

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   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

9. Life-size Wooden Spacecraft Sculptures

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   'My Voyager' by artist Peter Hennessey If you think about it, spacecraft are kind of ethereal in that once they are launched into space, we don't ever see them again. Australian artist Peter Hennessey ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

10. Many Famous Comets May be Visitors from Other Solar Systems

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    Comet Hale-Bopp. Credit: E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab; Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz, Austria Most comets are thought to have originated great distances away, traveling to the inner solar system from the ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

11. Falcon 9 Launch Gallery; 'Fantastic Day,' P–G Singularity and More

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... hand for Friday's spectacular and picture-perfect launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. Enjoy a gallery of images, including this great shot of a Prandtl–Glauert singularity, or shock cone that ... Friday, 04 June 2010

12. Dawn Journal - May 27, 2010

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 04, 2010 - After more than 2.5 years of spaceflight, and more than 6 months in the asteroid belt, Dawn's interplanetary journey continues smoothly. The mission remains on course and ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

13. The Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... through the Earth's atmosphere and back out into interplanetary space without ever striking the ground. A meteor procession occurs when a meteor breaks up upon entering the atmosphere, creating multiple ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

14. Russian spacecraft with astronauts lands: mission control

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    Moscow (AFP) June 2, 2010 - A Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian cosmonaut, a US astronaut and a Japanese astronaut has landed in Kazakhstan, a mission control official in Moscow said Wednesday. Russian ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010

15. Post-Mortem Of A Comet

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... in the laboratory. At the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre and at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility - a series of super microscopes - scientists are currently ... Monday, 31 May 2010

16. Hinode Discovers The Origin Of White Light Flare

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 28, 2010 - A joint Japan-United States research team has identified the origin of the white light emission in solar flares. The team, led by Dr. Kyoko Watanabe, an aerospace project ... Monday, 31 May 2010

17. MSU Robot Digs Most Moon Dirt

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Bozeman MT (SPX) May 31, 2010 - A Montana State University student-built robot won a national contest at the Kennedy Space Center Friday by digging the most simulated moon dirt in 15 minutes. Defeating ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

18. Tickling The Feet Of Astronauts

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Waterloo, Canada (SPX) May 28, 2010 - "One small step for mankind" will take on new meaning May 26 when Laurier professor Stephen Perry tickles the feet of astronauts returning from a space shuttle Atlantis ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

19. Sony develops roll-up video screen

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Tokyo (AFP) May 26, 2010 - Japanese electronics giant Sony said Wednesday it had developed what it called "the world's first" prototype flexible colour video screen that is small enough to be rolled around ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

20. Race is on for museums to host retired space shuttles

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Washington (AFP) May 26, 2010 - US museums are wasting no time in jostling to showcase the three retiring space shuttles after Atlantis touched down on Earth this week, capping the last scheduled mission ... Thursday, 27 May 2010