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Star eats star and builds planets from the crumbs - space - 08 February 2008 - New Scientist Space: "An unusual star may have swallowed its stellar companion and burped out a planet-forming cloud as a result, a new study reports"

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GLAST Name FormWelcome to the GLAST naming page! It is YOUR turn to suggest a name for NASA's newest astronomical observatory.Before the latest chapter in the search begins for supermassive black holes, new laws of physics and the mysterious dark matter, you’ll have the historic chance to help name the satellite that makes it all possible. This unique opportunity is open to the public across the

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Book a space now on out of this world tourist flight| News | This is London: "The Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which was being unveiled in New York today, is already under construction. Test flights are expected to begin in June, with commercial flights starting 12 months later.More than 200 potential astronauts are believed to have already paid deposits for the 100,000 pound (British unit of

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NASA - 10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion: "Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust - the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets - was forged in the explosions of massive stars. The findings, made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, are the most significant clue yet in the longstanding mystery of

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TWAN project official website - About TWAN: "The World At Night (TWAN) is a new program to create and exhibit a collection of stunning photographs of the world’s most beautiful and historic sites against a nighttime backdrop of stars, planets and celestial events. The eternally peaceful sky looks the same above all the landmarks and symbols of different nations and regions, attesting to the truly

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InterPlanetaryVentures.org

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Chandra :: Photo Album :: 3C321 :: 17 December 07: "This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, the first time such an interaction has been found."

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UC Davis News & Information :: Earliest Stage of Planet Formation Dated: "UC Davis researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system -- when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock -- to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years.UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Frederic Moynier, Qing-zhu Yin, assistant professor

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Great beasts peppered from space: "Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space. Eight tusks dating to some 35,000 years ago all show signs of having being peppered with meteorite fragments."

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Gimpy rover has turned up a surprise on Mars / Jammed front wheel plowing surface has uncovered signs of habitability in silica: "On the opening day of the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco on Monday, Steven Squyres of Cornell, the Mars mission's principal investigator for science, disclosed that the rover's dragging wheel has serendipitously been working as a plow and

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%u2018Flying saucers%u2019 around Saturn explained - Space.com- msnbc.com: "The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they're born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our

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Texas official resigns, cites creationism conflict - USATODAY.com: "AUSTIN (AP) %u2014 The state's director of science curriculum said she resigned this month under pressure from officials who felt she gave the appearance of criticizing the instruction of intelligent design. "

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The Cool News: "The Great Wall of China is NOT particularly visible from space While at a low orbit, the Great Wall of China can certainly be seen from space but it is not unique in that regard. From a low orbit of the earth, many artificial objects are visible on the earth, not just the Great Wall of China. Highways, ships in the sea, dams, railroads, cities, fields of crops, and even some

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa outlines manned Mars vision: "The US space agency envisages despatching a 'minimal' crew on a 30-month round trip to the Red Planet "

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Universe Today : Neutron Star Seen Hurtling Out of the Milky Way: "Like a baseball struck by a bat, there's a neutron star out there that's going, going, gone. Discovered using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the neutron star appears to be the result of a lopsided supernova explosion. It's now hurtling away from the Milky Way faster than 4.8 million km/h (3 million mph). And it's never coming back

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Mankind 'shortening the universe's life' - Telegraph : "The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have. Over the past few years, cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles and tried to extend it to understand the universe

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Tides trigger tremors deep inside the Earth: "A new mystery faces scientists who study stresses that trigger earthquakes both large or small: Even the rise and fall of the ocean's tides are strong enough to trigger pulses of underground tremors that periodically send seismic faults slowly slipping beneath the northwest coast, quake researchers have found."

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Big bright puffball Holmes is a comet like no otherComet Holmes finally makes the mainstream news.

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Astronomy - See the Moon turn red -

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Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award - Wirefly X PRIZE CUP

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Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend: "Summer's annual meteor shower promises to put on a dazzling show when it peaks this weekend %u2014 provided you're far from city lights. With no moon in sight to interfere with the Perseid meteor shower, skygazers can expect to spot streaking fireballs late Sunday into dawn Monday regardless of time zone. Astronomers estimate as many as 60 meteors per hour could

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SPACE.com -- Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision : "A major cosmic pileup involving four large galaxies could give rise to one of the largest galaxies the universe has ever known, scientists say.Each of the four galaxies is at least the size of the Milky Way, and each is home to billions of stars. The galaxies will eventually merge into a single, colossal galaxy up to 10 times as

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NSTA :: News StoryNSTA member Barbara R. Morgan believes students learn best by “doing and being actively engaged.” Now Morgan, a former Idaho elementary science teacher, is preparing to be actively engaged in space exploration as one of five NASA mission specialists aboard space shuttle Endeavour, now scheduled to launch on August 8. Endeavour’s 11-day mission, designated STS-118, will continue

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This is the registration page to participate in the latest teacher from space activity, involving testing space exposed seeds and seeds kept on earth as a control. This is very similar in concept to the Space Exposed Experiment Designed for Students (SEEDS) that NASA ran in the 1980s. NASA - Join the Challenge

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Queen star hands in science PhD: "Queen guitarist Brian May has handed in his astronomy PhD thesis - 36 years after abandoning it to join the band.May recently carried out observational work in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of 'zodiacal dust clouds'.The subject forms the basis of a 48,000-word thesis for Imperial College, London, where 60-year-old May studied

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