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SocietyCost Comparison: Mars Curiosity Vs Olympics
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Yeah. So it is indeed a program that fails on its purpose on a large scale. But then again... I don't know if that it is its intended purpose. To inspire all... or a great deal of people. It is t... |
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6 November 2012
Methone: Smooth Egg Moon of Saturn
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA
Why is this moon shaped like a smooth egg? The robotic Cassini spacecraft completed the... |
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4 September 2012
Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: John Nelson, IDV Solutions
Should you be worried about hurricanes? To find out, it is useful to know where hurrican... |
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23 November 2012
The Pipe Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science)
East of Antares, dark markings sprawl through crowded st... |
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31 August 2012
Halo of the Cat's Eye
Image Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting symme... |
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14 September 2012
Elliptical M60, Spiral NGC 4647
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647 do look like an odd couple in this s... |
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6 December 2012
47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. Also known as NGC 104, it roams t... |
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11 November 2012
Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality
Image Credit & Copyright: Leonid Durman
Just before the Sun blacks out, something strange occurs. As the Moon moves to complet... |
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23 September 2012
Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice
Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
Yesterday was an equinox, a date when day and night are equal. Today, and every day unti... |
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11 October 2012
Aurorae over Planet Earth
Image Credit : NASA, NOAA, GSFC, Suomi NPP, Earth Observatory,
processing by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon
North America at night is easy to recognize... |
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17 December 2012
NGC 922: Collisional Ring Galaxy
Image Credit: NASA, ESA; Acknowledgement: Nick Rose
Why does this galaxy have so many big black holes? No one is sure. What is sure is that NGC... |
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1 November 2012
Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble -- maybe Mac... |
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31 October 2012
VdB 152: A Ghost in Cepheus
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin
Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition", mysterious reflection nebula... |
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21 December 2012
Orion over El Castillo
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard (Los Cielos de America, TWAN)
Credits: D. Flores and B. Pichardo (Inst. Astronomia UNAM), P. Sánchez... |
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29 October 2012
The Red Spider Planetary Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Milovic, Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA
Oh what a tangled web a planetary nebula can weave. The Red Spider Plane... |
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18 October 2012
A View from Next Door
Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
Located just next door, Alpha Centauri is the closest star sy... |
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17 October 2012
Aurora Over White Dome Geyser
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Howell
Sometimes both heaven and Earth erupt. Colorful aurorae erupted unexpectedly earlier this month, with gr... |
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3 October 2012
Goat Aurora Over Greenland
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN)
Sometimes it's hard to believe what you see in the sky. During the Shelios Expedition to Gr... |
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12 December 2012
Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest
Image Credit & Copyright: Florian Breuer
In front of a famous background of stars and galaxies lies some of Earth's more unusual trees... |
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5 November 2012
Saturn's Moon Dione in Slight Color
Image Credit: NASA, JPL, SSI, ESA; Post Processing: Marc Canale
Why does one half of Dione have more craters than the other? Start with t... |
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18 February 2013
The Great Russian Meteor of 2013
Video Credit & Copyright: RussiaToday
What in heaven's blazes is that? Thousands of people living near the Ural Mountains in Russia saw... |
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14 October 2012
The Hubble Extreme Deep Field
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (UCSC), R. Bouwens (Leiden Obs.), and the XDF Team
What did the first galaxies look... |
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19 December 2012
NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Why is this nebula so complex? When a star like our Sun is dying, it w... |
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9 September 2012
Wisps Surrounding the Horsehead Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Star Shadows Remote Observatory
The famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion is not alone. A deep exposure shows tha... |
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29 September 2012
NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas
Like delicate cosmic petals, these clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away... |
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