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Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzle
gizmodo.com — This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble: in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Get your tin foil hats out, because it gets even weirder.More… (Space)
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Space X Did It -- A Private Rocket is in Space!
blog.wired.com — Space X has made history. The first privately developed rocket has made it into space!More… (Space)
SirPopper
Ten things you don’t know about the Earth
blogs.discovermagazine.com — Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it? More… (Space)
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Toughest Creature on Earth Exposed to Space and Lived
blog.wired.com — Once in orbit, the tardigrade box popped open. Some were exposed to low-level cosmic radiation, and others to both cosmic and unfiltered solar radiation. All were exposed to the frigid vacuum of space. More… (Space)
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Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive
blog.wired.com — To say that the "Emdrive" (short for "electromagnetic drive") concept is controversial would be an understatement. According to Roger Shawyer, the British scientist who developed the concept, the drive converts electrical energy into thrust via microwaves, without violating any laws of physics. Many other researchers believe otherwise.More… (Space)
MookiBlaylock
LHC: First subatomic particle collision to happen next week
telegraph.co.uk — The first collisions between subatomic particles will take place in the giant Large Hadron Collider next week, which will mark another milestone for the biggest experiment in history.More… (Space)
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'Space elevator' nears reality
edition.cnn.com — A cable anchored to the Earth's surface, reaching tens of thousands of kilometers into space balanced with a counterweight attached at the other end is the basic design for the elevator.More… (Space)
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Where Do Satellites Go When They Die? [PICS]
environmentalgraffiti.com — No matter how often we hear about the developed world becoming more like Big Brother every day, it’s not until you see images that these from NASA that you get creeped out. How much are we being watched, traced, listened to, recorded? Anyone who has ever read George Orwell’s novel, 1984, might have seen it coming.More… (Space)
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Maximizing Survival Time Inside of a Black Hole
universetoday.com — Here's a scenario that will face many of us in the far future. You're hurtling through the cosmos at nearly the speed of light in your spaceship when you take a wrong turn and pass into the event horizon of a black hole. Uh oh, you're dead - not yet, what can you do to maximize your existence before you join the singularity as a smear of particles?More… (Space)
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NASA Has Plans for Nuclear Reactor Under Surface of The Moon
gizmodo.com — NASA is working on plans for an underground nuclear reactor buried under the surface of the moonMore… (Space)
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NASA’s Dirty Secret: Moon Dust
sciencedaily.com — The Apollo Moon missions of 1969-1972 all share a dirty secret. “The major issue the Apollo astronauts pointed out was dust, dust, dust,” says Professor Larry Taylor, Director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee. Fine as flour and rough as sandpaper, Moon dust caused ‘lunar hay fever,’ problems with...More… (Space)
adrian67The Colors of the Moon
rc-astro.com — Is the moon really this colorful? In a way, yes. The lunar surface actually does have quite a bit of color, although in reality it is very subtle. In this photograph, the color saturation has been enhanced to bring out the differences in the colors of the various areas of the surface.More… (Space)
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Grounded space tourist wants $21 million refund
news.yahoo.com — A Japanese businessman who trained for a 10-day flight aboard the International Space Station has sued to get his money back, claiming he was defrauded of $21 million by the U.S. firm that arranged the venture.More… (Space)
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Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk
space.com — A Chinese astronaut has completed his nation's first ever foray into space beyond the confines of a spacecraft.More… (Space)
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Hubble Repair Mission More Risky than You'd Ever Imagine
gizmodo.com — If you think that the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven't seen this yet.More… (Space)
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