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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

   ... material, scooping up interstellar dust and gas as it went, like a snow plow. An expanding shock wave traveled into the surroundings and a reverse shock was driven back in toward the remnants of the star. ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010

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

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... 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

6. Tanks for the Memories

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... scheduled to fly on a shuttle mission was rolled out of the Michoud Assembly Facility on Thursday. The tank, ET-138, traveled on a wheeled transporter one mile to the Michoud barge dock, accompanied by ... Friday, 09 July 2010

7. Who Will Win the Google Lunar X PRIZE?

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... week as an update on how the teams are progressing. The challenge is not only to land a robot on the Moon, but it also must complete a few tasks – and none of this is easy: travel at least 500 meters ... 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

   ... wonders how far the oil will travel. Researchers National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have completed a detailed computer modeling study that indicates the oil might soon extend along thousands ... Monday, 14 June 2010

9. Life-size Wooden Spacecraft Sculptures

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... Space Telescope, and more. From Hennessey's website: "By 're-enacting' space traveling, scientific and military objects in plywood, galvanized steel and canvas, the artist creates ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

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

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    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

    ... formed around the rocket, which sometimes occurs when a sudden drop in air pressure occurs when rockets or aircraft are traveling at transonic speeds. (...) Read the rest of Falcon 9 Launch Gallery; 'Fantastic ... Friday, 04 June 2010

12. Dawn Journal - May 27, 2010

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... schedule for this expedition to the dawn of the solar system. Our Dawn is not the first spacecraft to use this name, although it is traveling farther from home than any other Dawn. This month 2 more ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

13. The Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... meteors traveling in nearly identical paths. The rarity of meteor processions, however, has proven problematic to scholars. Whitman's description has alternately been ascribed to the 1833 Leonid meteor ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

14. Russian spacecraft with astronauts lands: mission control

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... experiments, helping test the effects of long-term space travel on humans, a must for any trip to distant Mars. ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010

15. Post-Mortem Of A Comet

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... finding out what a comet is really made of. The Stardust probe travelled 3.2 billion km in space, and flew through the coma of Comet Wild2 collecting tiny grains of dust, returning them back to Earth ... Monday, 31 May 2010

16. Hinode Discovers The Origin Of White Light Flare

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... solar atmosphere is an important subject for further improving human understanding of particle acceleration. Highly accelerated particles may travel toward the Earth and cause geomagnetic storms, resulting ... Monday, 31 May 2010

17. MSU Robot Digs Most Moon Dirt

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... an April fire. After MSU's performance, Lloyd received an e-mail from NASA, telling him that NASA would pay for him to travel there in July for the introduction of next year's contest, a planetary research ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

18. Tickling The Feet Of Astronauts

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... mission. The research, designed to measure the influence of space travel on foot sensitivity, will provide important information about the links between hypersensitivity, balance control and the aging ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

19. Sony develops roll-up video screen

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... is right behind," said Yokota, pointing to the potential for popular manga cartoons and travel applications on the iPad. With many Tokyo commuters facing hour-long journey times, "the iPhone and iTouch ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

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

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... has a very distinctive history," assured Neal, recalling the shuttle traveled to the Paris Air Show in 1983, where it was a "big sensation." ... Thursday, 27 May 2010