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Space shuttle veterans were a different breed of astronaut

As a teenager in Costa Rica, Franklin Chang-Diaz had an improbable goal: becoming an American astronaut. Ultimately, he would fly a record seven shuttle missions and today wants to fly to Mars.

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created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Milestones in 30-year shuttle program

NASA's space shuttle flights began three decades ago with Columbia and will end this month with the final voyage of Atlantis and the retirement of the fleet. Between, there were triumphs and tragedies.

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created Jul 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clocking Neptune's spin

(PhysOrg.com) -- By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets ...

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

X-ray illumination of supernova ejecta

(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernovae are the explosive deaths of massive stars, cataclysms that disburse into space the chemical elements produced by nuclear reactions inside the progenitor stars. Understanding chemical ...

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created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Dawn nears start of year-long stay at giant asteroid

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early ...

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created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Duo of big telescopes probes the depths of binary star formation

A team of researchers from four Japanese universities (Kobe, Saitama, Osaka, and Tokyo) has been able to delineate the intricate structure of the circumbinary disk that surrounds a young binary star system ...

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created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Unusual gamma-ray flash may have come from star being eaten by massive black hole

A bright flash of gamma rays observed March 28 by the Swift satellite may have been the death rattle of a star falling into a massive black hole and being ripped apart, according to a team of astronomers led ...

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created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Spectacular Hubble View of Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a close-up view of the galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble’s out-of-this-world location and world-class Wide Field Camera 3 instrument reveal a ...

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created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Dawn spacecraft captures video of asteroid approach (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working with NASA's Dawn spacecraft have created a new video showing the giant asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in the main asteroid belt.

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created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New supernova remnant lights up

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1987, light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached Earth. Named Supernova 1987A, it was the closest supernova explosion witnessed in almost ...

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created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

New class of stellar explosions discovered

They're bright and blue-and a bit strange. They're a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Among the most ...

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created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Understanding stellar birth using old star clusters

It is now known that most, if not all, of the stars in our Galaxy were born in star clusters. These spherical groupings contain anywhere from a few tens to several million members all milling about under the influence of ...

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created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 14

'Dead' galaxies are not so dead after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars. The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with time.

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created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

James Webb space telescope ISIM on 'spin cycle'

Prior to taking a new telescope into space, engineers must put the spacecraft and its instruments through a "spin cycle" test for durability to ensure they'll still work after experiencing the forces of a ...

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created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hubble finds rare 'blue straggler' stars in Milky Way's hub

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy's bulge.

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created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast