Bad weather delayed the liftoff Thursday of a rocket with two new satellites for Europe's rival to GPS, launch firm Arianespace said as it announced 12 orbiters will join the constellation from next year.
Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2014
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Europe is set to launch two satellites Thursday for its Galileo navigation system, boosting the number in the Earth-orbiting constellation to six and bringing the network a step closer to becoming operational after a long ...
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2014
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What a stunning view of this dark region of space! This image, by astrophotographer Callum Hayton shows LDN 673, a molecular cloud complex that lies in the constellation Aquila. This region is massive—around 67 trillion ...
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2014
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A new Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite has been launched into space.
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Just as children are sorted into age groups at school, so the seeds of new stars can also be found in 'classes' of others of similar ages. This is especially true when the birth of stars in a cloud of gas and ...
Astronomy
Jun 23, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The first set of high-resolution results from ESA's three-satellite Swarm constellation reveals the most recent changes in the magnetic field that protects our planet.
Space Exploration
Jun 20, 2014
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Don't let them pass you by. Right now and continuing through July, the biggest and brightest asteroids will be running on nearly parallel tracks in the constellation Virgo and so close together they'll easily fit in the same ...
Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2014
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Skywatchers, get ready to see a rare vanishing act—and don't blink.
Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2014
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Using one of the world's premier telescopes, University of Minnesota astrophysicists Evan Skillman and Kristen McQuinn have discovered a priceless relic of the Big Bang in the Milky Way's back yard.
Astronomy
Feb 27, 2014
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Astronomers see huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. Once thought to be a relatively uniform, fog-like ring, the accreting matter instead forms clumps dense enough to intermittently ...
Astronomy
Feb 19, 2014
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