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  • 1
    Feb
    2012
    6:50pm, EST
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    Now's the time to glimpse the 'future' of celestial delights

    Night owls and early birds can see what awaits us on nights in spring and summer

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  • 1
    Feb
    2012
    4:53pm, EST
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    How the sun gets its spots: New theory offered for solar mystery

    Researchers say molecular hydrogen plays an important role in their formation and evolution

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    "We think that molecular hydrogen plays an important role in the formation and evolution of sunspots," said Sarah Jaeggli God darn it.. there is no such thing as evolution... even of sunspots.... the Lord God created them on the end of the first day... after he created the sun and the stars.... and …

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  • 1
    Feb
    2012
    4:01pm, EST
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    Public can now journey through Discovery's long history

    NASA and archivists work to preserve space shuttles' pasts in full multimedia 'recordation'

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  • 1
    Feb
    2012
    3:55pm, EST
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    SETI researchers now focus on exoplanets beyond solar system

    Kepler planets targeted in search for signals not caused by natural phenomena

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    I hope SETI is the first to tell the world were not alone,I was so angry when the program was cancelled.From what I read,it was not a lot of money for what would be the greatest discovery ever.Just maybe in the next 10 years,with Kepler and other space and earth based detection equipment coming on l …

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    Feb
    2012
    12:31pm, EST
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    Check out the new 'face' in the crowd of hot, young stars

    Glowing nebula, its clouds sculpted by stellar winds, looks eerily human in new photo

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    Cue the "face on mars" whackjobs.

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  • 1
    Feb
    2012
    10:04am, EST
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    NASA spots most crowded space collision ever

    Astronomers spotted the galaxy clusters involved in a triple merger

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  • 31
    Jan
    2012
    5:08pm, EST
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    NASA probe discovers 'alien' matter outside solar system

    Interstellar material spotted by IBEX from orbit 200,000 miles above Earth

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    "This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of "

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  • 31
    Jan
    2012
    11:37am, EST
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    Radio telescope to search for first stars and galaxies

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    Wonder if this massively composite antenna could pickup the incredibly dispersed SETI equivalent of our military and commercial radio and TV. Certainly no single antenna could.

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  • 31
    Jan
    2012
    10:45am, EST
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    NASA to solicit private space taxi proposals Feb. 7

    The administration will award two funded contracts for competing concepts

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    The Maglev will run from SF to Denver, acceleration shall be 31G, astronauts fited in fluid breathing suits will be subject to pressure equivalent of 300feet sea depth for 22 seconds. The tunnel will be evacuated, with a vortex driven near zero pressure egress over Colorado.

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  • 31
    Jan
    2012
    8:22am, EST
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    Solar system sails sideways through galaxy

    We're pitched at angle and not oriented parallel to plane of Milky Way

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    Rotational precession would require a torque, as by a magnetic field. However the largest force on SOL is the interstellar matter flow rate pegged at 26km/s vectored along the Galactic plane. That flow has been determined to interact by modulating the SOL heliosphere, perhaps collapsing is to less t …

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  • 30
    Jan
    2012
    10:17pm, EST
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    New hope for intelligent life on other planets

    Recent study challenges a widely held anti-ET argument based on evolution

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    It would be nice to find intelligent life on other planets. It is unfortunate that there are no known intelligent life here on this Planet.

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    Jan
    2012
    8:28pm, EST
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    New on Facebook, from NASA: 'Space Race Blast Off' game!

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    The nation that once sent humans to the moon by boldly articulating a vision of doing things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, is now reducing NASA's role to creating video games for social media sites?

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