Space

New space telescope to probe sun’s atmosphere

Gadget to investigate how sun’s magnetic field works during 5-year mission This illustration shows convoluted magnetic field lines extending out all over the sun A new solar telescope, scheduled to launch this winter, will...

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Video: Saturns Spectacular Aurora in Action

How can you not love Cassini? The latest treat NASA’s spacecraft has provided us is the first ever movie of Saturn’s incredible aruroras. The high-resolution video was assembled from 472 still images, spaced over 81 hours in...

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James Hansen Talks About Climate Change

director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the world's most famous climatologists. He testified at a 1988 U.S. Senate hearing that the emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was...

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Astronaut says Mexico needs its own space program

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A NASA astronaut says he wants to help Mexican officials start the country's first space agency. Astronaut Jose Hernandez says he has no plans to leave his job at NASA, but hopes to help Mexico's program get...

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Is Case Finally Closed on 1965 Pennsylvania 'UFO Mystery'? (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - In the chronicles of UFO oddness, there's been a long-standing oddity – some say folklore, others deem it reality. This saga, now over four decades old, centers on a reported out-of-the-sky incident involving the...

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Nanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Enlarge Samples of novel nanocomposite materials, seen above, will be mounted to the hull of the space station, and tested to see how they weather the perils of space. Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer were sent into...

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A New Approach To Wi-Fi In Flight

Small Firm Develops Cost-Effective System By W.J. HENNIGAN Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — - But a 25-employee company in Los Angeles may have found a way to make in-flight Internet take off. Row 44 is outfitting U.S. airlines...

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ET: Check your voicemail

November 24, 2009 by David L. Chandler Enlarge Joe Davis ascends a walkway to the transmission dome suspended 500 feet above the Arecibo radiotelescope dish in Puerto Rico, in preparation for his transmission of a message to...

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NABET: Multicast Short-Market Satellite Fix Is Crucial

CWA union says stations won't survive without exploiting full potential of DTV By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/24/2009 11:20:44 AM The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, a Communications...

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Numerous "Tramp" Stars Adrift in Intergalactic Space Could Await Discovery

Take a look up in the night sky. Whether on a mountaintop, largely unfazed by light pollution, or wedged in the heart of a muddied-sky metropolis, thank your lucky stars that you can see anything at all. A new study...

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