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Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 11 weblog




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IBEX spacecraft measures 'alien' particles from outside solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, an international team of researchers has measured neutral "alien" particles entering our solar system from interstellar ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Curiosity and the solar storm

On Nov. 26th, Curiosity blasted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas 5 rocket. Riding a plume of fire through the blue Florida sky, the car-sized rover began a nine month journey to search for signs of life ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Subaru's 3-D view of Stephan's Quintet

Subaru Telescope has added another dimension of information about one of the most studied of all compact galaxy groups—Stephan's Quintet. Located within the borders of the constellation Pegasus, Stephan's ...

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created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mars rover carries device for underground scouting

(PhysOrg.com) -- An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path.

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

VISTA finds new globular star clusters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly discovered globular clusters have been added to the total of just 158 known globular clusters in our Milky Way. They were found in new images from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope ...

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created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flocculent spiral NGC 2841

(PhysOrg.com) -- The galaxy NGC 2841 - shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the space observatory’s newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 - currently has a relatively ...

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created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Astronomer leverages supercomputers to study black holes, galaxies

An Ohio State University astronomer is working to unlock some of the mysteries surrounding the formation of vast galaxies and the evolution of massive black holes with his own large constellation of silicon ...

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created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

CU telescope debuts on NASA flying observatory

(PhysOrg.com) -- SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, will take flight May 25 along with the Cornell-built FORCAST (the Faint Object InfraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope).

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created May 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission

NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific ...

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Mysterious X-rays from a Nearby Galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an active galaxy, an AGN, contains a massive black hole that is vigorously accreting material. In the process it typically ejects jets of particles and radiates brightly at ...

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 8


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