Halloween Hellmouth at Iceland volcano
Updated: 2012-10-31 18:12:00
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: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Superbright star explosion is most distant known 18:00 31 October 2012 Space Lisa Grossman , physical sciences reporter A simulation of a galaxy hosting a superluminous supernova Image : Adrian Malec and Marie Martig , Swinburne University A newly spotted ultra-bright star explosion burst onto the scene just 1.5 billion years after the big bang , making it the earliest known . supernova The event is one of
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: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Neil Armstrong's postcard from the moon 17:51 25 October 2012 Picture of the Day Space Joanna Carver , reporter Image : Heritage Auctions Maybe they thought there would be mailboxes on the moon , and that it would be brown . It's a reminder of what an exciting , unknown frontier it was when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there 43 years ago Though Armstrong left us in August , those first steps are
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Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture notched a blazing success last week when it tested a NASA-backed launch pad escape system for its crew capsule.
The Oct. 19 demonstration flight at Blue Origin's West Texas spaceport marked the final milestone for NASA hellip;
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To find their way home, aviators used to be able to read the rooftops.
The three astronauts on the International Space Station are having ice cream for dessert tonight — and we're not talking about that spongy "astronaut ice cream" stuff. This is the vanilla chocolate-swirl ice cream that was delivered in a research freezer aboard the SpaceX D hellip;
Destroying a 727 in the name of science, and entertainment.