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The Facts About Newly Discovered Comet ISON

Greg - Staff Writer — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:40:18 +0000

Comet ISON was discovered in September 2012 by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok. They are part of a night sky survey program called the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON). The comet was named after this program. Comet ISON will encounter the Sun on November 28, 2013.

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A Star Near The End of It’s Life

Greg - Staff Writer — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:14:12 +0000

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured this amazing image of a star nearing the end of it's life. The above image is of a star known as U Camelopardalis. It is located near the North Celestial Pole and can be found in the constellation Camelopardalis - also known as The Giraffe.

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Red Bull Stratos Mission: Successful and Speed of Sound Broken by Felix Baumgartner

Brian - Staff Writer — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:22:43 +0000

The Red Bull Stratos mission, undertaken on October 14, 2012, went off without any major problems. The mission was an attempt for a balloon assisted aircraft to reach a world record altitude of 120,000 ft and for a human to then perform a freefall skydive from the vehicle at that height. The mission also had the potential for a human breaking the speed barrier during freefall. This was achieved during the freefall descent to Earth.

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Galaxy Twisted After Collision

Greg - Staff Writer — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:24:07 +0000

About 150,000 light years away, a cosmic collision is producing a twisted galaxy with a bright smooth central core. In April of 2001, Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 was trained on a galaxy located in the southern constellation Hydra. This galaxy is known as ESO 510-G13.

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Unsuccessful Mars Rovers: The Failed Soviet Prop-M Rover

Brian - Staff Writer — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:24:20 +0000

With the recent landing of NASA's latest Mars rover, Curiosity, there has been a renewed excitement for discoveries to be found on Mars. However, while the Curiosity rover currently has much of the attention of space rover fans, let's take a moment and discuss all of the rovers that were sent to land on the planet but failed. After all, Curiosity was not the first rover to attempt to land on Mars.

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Perseid Meteor Shower 2012

Greg - Staff Writer — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:26:46 +0000

Keep your eyes on the night sky tonight and tomorrow night. The annual Perseid Meteor Shower peaks on August 11 and August 12 in 2012. Expect to see around 60 meteors per hour this year. Viewing should be pretty good because the moon will not enter the picture until the early hours of the morning.

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NASA Curiosity Rover Successfully Lands on Mars!

Greg - Staff Writer — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:58:32 +0000

NASA announced today that the Curiosity Rover made a successful landing on Mars! This landing was the first of it's kind for NASA. It combined a heat shield, a parachute and a rocket crane designed to hover over the landing site and lower the rover by cable to the Martian surface. Talk about some crazy great engineering!

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M64 – The Black Eye Galaxy

Greg - Staff Writer — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:10:57 +0000

M64, the Black Eye Galaxy is also known as the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy or the Evil Eye Galaxy. There are a couple of interesting things about this spiral galaxy that lies approximately 17 million light-years away from Earth.

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Hubble Space Telescope’s Top 100 Images

Greg - Staff Writer — Thu, 31 May 2012 01:21:08 +0000

I spend a lot of time browsing the Hubble archives getting lost in some of the most amazing images of objects in the universe. Did you know that the Hubble Space Telescope has a Top 100 Images List? Here you can find some of the best images that Hubble has ever brought to life.

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The Annular Solar Eclipse of 2012

Greg - Staff Writer — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:49:11 +0000

Get ready eclipse fans! An annual solar eclipse is scheduled to make an appearance on May 20, 21, 2012. For those of you who are lucky enough to live in the northern hemisphere AND live in China, Japan or the West Coast of the United States, you will be witnesses to this celestial show!

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