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Bridge Between the Stars - NGC 602: Hubble Visualization by Jukk
شنبه 29 فروردینماه سال 1388 14:40
NGC 602 Parallel Hubble Visualization by Jukka Metsavainio It’s been awhile hasn’t it? Time may have passed, but absence makes the heart grow fonder. For those of you who have missed our very special dimensional looks into the Cosmos, then it’s high time we let our minds and eyes relax and we take a 200 thousand...
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Kepler’s “First Light” Images
شنبه 29 فروردینماه سال 1388 14:38
W00t! Kepler has seen first light! The spacecraft has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth . These first images show the mission’s target patch of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy. One image shows millions of stars...
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NASA Worried: Spirit Reboots Rover Computer, Twice
شنبه 29 فروردینماه سال 1388 14:31
A panorama by Sprit, taken last month (NASA) Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is acting a little strange. Over the Easter weekend, it would appear that the tenacious little Mars explorer rebooted its computer not once, but at least two times. Mission scientists were alerted to the problem as some of the communication...
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Incredible Light Show: Gas Jet Flaring From M87’s Black Hole
شنبه 29 فروردینماه سال 1388 14:30
Hubble image of a gas jet blasing from the core of M87. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Madrid (McMaster University) Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. The Hubble Space Telescope has been keeping an eye on the very active galaxy M87 for years, and has now captured a flare-up in a jet of matter blasting from the...
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Catching Up With Comet Yi-SWAN
شنبه 29 فروردینماه سال 1388 14:19
Comet Yi-SWAN Rough Locator Chart - April 14/16 Now that the Moon is out of the early evening sky, far northern observers are out in force hunting down Comet C/2009 Yi-SWAN… and it’s there! In 10X50 binoculars it appears like a very faint, small globular cluster, but definitely has the signature of a comet in a 4.5″...
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COLBERT on the ISS
شنبه 29 فروردینماه سال 1388 14:15
Artists depiction of Node 3 on the ISS. Credit: NASA There will be a COLBERT on the International Space Station. Word has it that NASA, however, did not name Node 3 on the ISS after comedian Stephen Colbert, who won a NASA-sponsored naming contest for the next module that will be brought to the station. According to...
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NASA Science News for April 14, 2009
شنبه 29 فروردینماه سال 1388 14:12
For the first time, NASA spacecraft have traced the 3D shape of solar storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). It turns out the most ferocious storms resemble something from a French bakery. Read today's story to find out what: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/14apr_3dcme.htm?list1035898 Check out our RSS...
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New story for 2009/04/13
دوشنبه 24 فروردینماه سال 1388 18:21
Cassini’s Indirect Image of Boulders and Moonlets in Saturn’s Rings Take a look at this — its absolutely stunning. A couple of weeks ago, Anne wrote an article about shadows on Saturns rings. Because Saturn is approaching its equinox, in August the rings will “disappear” from our view from Earth , as the rings will be...
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NASA Science News_April10,2009
یکشنبه 23 فروردینماه سال 1388 20:51
News NASA Science News for April 10, 2009 NASA researchers are about to climb the slopes of Earth's tallest mountain to test exploration technologies they'll need on the Moon and Mars. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/10apr_because.htm?list1035898 Check out our RSS feed at...
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NASA Science News_April 9, 2009
یکشنبه 23 فروردینماه سال 1388 20:48
News NASA Science News for April 9, 2009 NASA 's twin STEREO probes are entering a mysterious region of space to look for remains of an ancient planet which might have orbited the Sun not far from Earth. If they find anything, it could solve a major puzzle--the origin of the Moon . FULL STORY at...