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1. Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D

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   ... specialists at STScI, including Greg Bacon, who sculpted the Orion Nebula digital model, with input from STScI astronomer Massimo Roberto; the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

2. This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test!

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   Princeton University scientists (from left) Reinabelle Reyes, James Gunn and Rachel Mandelbaum led a team that analyzed more than 70,000 galaxies and demonstrated that the universe - at least up to a distance ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

3. Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes

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   ... and at the earliest stages of evolution," said Linhua Jiang of the University of Arizona, Tucson, lead author of a paper published this week in Nature. (...) Read the rest of Spitzer Spies Earliest ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

4. Solving A 37-Year Old Space Mystery

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   London, Canada (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

5. You, Too Can Find Missing Russian Spacecraft

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   The Lunokhod 2 rover, found in images from LRO. Credit: University of Western Ontario On Monday, NASA released the complete set of science data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s first six ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

6. You Too Can Find Missing Russian Spacecraft

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   The Lunokhod 2 rover, found in images from LRO. Credit: University of Western Ontario On Monday, NASA released the complete set of science data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s first six ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

7. New Hubble Project Will Survey Beginnings of Cosmic Time

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   ... for the ages," said Sandra Faber, project leader from the University of California, Santa Cruz. (...) Read the rest of New Hubble Project Will Survey Beginnings of Cosmic Time (441 words) © ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

8. Super Supernova: White Dwarf Star System Exceeds Mass Limit

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   New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a type of supernova thought to belong to a unique subclass and confirmed that ... Monday, 15 March 2010

9. Galaxy Study Validates General Relativity On Cosmic Scale

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   Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

10. Massive Repeated Explosions Halted Star Formation in Early Universe

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    ... off star formation and halted the growth of a typical massive galaxy in the local Universe," said lead author Dr. Dave Alexander from Durham University. (...) Read the rest of Massive Repeated Explosions ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

11. Most Extreme White Dwarf Binary System Found

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    Warwick, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2010 - An international team of astronomers, including Professor Tom Marsh and Dr Danny Steeghs from the University of Warwick, have shown that the two stars in the binary HM ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

12. Battle Between Sun And Earth For Our Atmosphere

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    Rochester NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the Earth's magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today, and that this ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

13. From 2-Trillion-Degree Heat, Researchers Create New Matter

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    College Station TX (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - A worldwide team of researchers, including 10 from Texas A and M University, have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

14. Spirit Hunkered Down for Winter; Stuck Forever ? Maybe Not !

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    ... Remember – at this moment on Sol 2192, Spirit is 75 months into her 3 month mission ! That’s 25 times beyond her “warrenty” as Rover Principal Investigator Prof. Steve Squyres of Cornell University ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

15. MRO Radar Maps Extensive Subsurface Martian Ice

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    A radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected widespread deposits of glacial ice in the mid-latitudes of Mars.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/University of Rome/Southwest Research Institute Sure, ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

16. What Can The (Dark) Matter Be?

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    What better place to look for dark matter than down a mine shaft? A research team from the University of Florida have spent nine years monitoring for any signs of the elusive stuff using germanium and ... Monday, 01 March 2010

17. Why Was the February 27, 2010 Tsunami Smaller than Expected?

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    ... as well? "It is too early to know for sure," said Anne Sheehan, a geologist from the University of Colorado – Boulder. (...) Read the rest of Why Was the February 27, 2010 Tsunami Smaller ... Sunday, 28 February 2010

18. Australia Launches Scramjet Consortium

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    Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Feb 28, 2010 - The University of Queensland will lead a $14 million international consortium to help develop scramjet-based access-to-space systems, flying an autonomous scramjet ... Saturday, 27 February 2010

19. NASA to host rocket-science workshop

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    Washington (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 - NASA officials say they're inviting U.S. university faculty and students to a rocket-science workshop to learn how to build and launch scientific experiments. ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

20. Into A Volcano To Test Suitcase-Sized Science Lab

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    Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 - Some scientists will go anywhere for a proper test, including the mouth of a (sleeping) Hawaiian volcano. Dr. Inge Ten Kate, a University of Maryland Baltimore County ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010