• Origins of Life on Earth & Beyond --Harvard Research Reveals New Discoveries

    Updated: 2011-11-08 09:30:00
    Two of the world's preeminent scientists, Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and Jack Szostak, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, co-founded the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative --an interdisciplinary center unlike any other in the world. It...

  • Proof the Universe is Fine-Tuned for Life? Scientists Find Antarctica Meteorites Contain Essential Building Block of DNA.

    Updated: 2011-11-08 09:30:00
    NASA-funded researchers found evidence this past summer that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit"...

  • Russia to Launch Probe of Mars Mystery Moon --Phobos

    Updated: 2011-11-08 09:00:00
    On Wednesday Russia launches a probe for Mars that aims to collect samples of a Mars enigmatic moon, Phobos, and become Moscow's first successful planetary mission since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In a landmark space cooperation between Moscow...

  • China Ramps Space Mission --Acquires Australia Tracking Station

    Updated: 2011-11-08 08:12:00
    China continues its drumbeat of space initiatives, setting the pace for 21st Century space exploration with its fifth space station outside of its territory with the acquisition of a space tracking station in Dongara, about 350 kilometers north of Perth...

  • From the X Files: The Search for ET Artifacts in the Solar System

    Updated: 2011-11-08 08:06:00
    Trying to replicate the discovery of the a;lien Monolith on Moon in Space Odyssey:2001, two researchers at Penn State, are asking "why have we never found evidence of other civilizations in Solar System?" The team is approached the problem mathematically,...

  • ‘Sweet Spots’ for Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Discovered in Our Galaxy

    Updated: 2011-11-08 02:43:11
    Astrobiologists have discovered regions in our galaxy which might have the greatest potential for producing very complex organic molecules, the starting point for the development of life. We’ve heard before about “follow the water” in the search for life; in this case it may be “follow the methanol”… (...)Read the rest of ‘Sweet Spots’ for [...]

  • Russian Mars Moon Sample Probe Poised to Soar atop Upgraded Rocket – Video

    Updated: 2011-11-08 01:56:18
    After an absence of almost two decades, Russia is at last on the cusp of resuming an ambitious agenda of interplanetary science missions on Tuesday Nov. 8 (Nov. 9. Moscow Time) by taking aim at Mars and scooping up the first ever soil and rocks gathered from the mysterious moon Phobos. Russia’s space program was [...]

  • News Flash: NASA Deep Space Network Captures New Image of Asteroid Flying By Earth Tomorrow

    Updated: 2011-11-08 01:38:19
    NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will safely fly past our planet slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. The...

  • NCBI ROFL: What’s superior to sex, sweets, and seeing your best friend? | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-11-08 00:22:54
    Sweets, Sex, or Self-Esteem? Comparing the Value of Self-Esteem Boosts with Other Pleasant Rewards. “Many people ascribe great value to self-esteem, but how much value? Do people value self-esteem more than other pleasant activities, such as eating sweets and having sex? Two studies of college students (Study 1: N=130; Study 2: N=152) showed that people [...]

  • Just In: NASA’s Latest Image of Asteroid 2005 YU55

    Updated: 2011-11-07 23:52:51
    NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it begins its close pass by Earth. The image above was taken on Nov. 7 at 11:45 a.m. PST (2:45 p.m. EST/1945 UTC), when the asteroid was approximately 1.38 million kilometers (860,000 miles) or about 3.6 lunar [...]

  • #scienceink update: The New York Times does a slide show, and New Scientist approves | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-11-07 23:05:37
    : , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The Toughest Bear in the Universe scienceink scienceink update : The New York Times does a slide show , and New Scientist approves Two pieces of Science Ink related : news 1. The New York Times put together a slide show from the book including several tattoos that I haven’t published on the blog Check it . out 2. New Scientist offered this kind review sub’n required When Carl Zimmer asked on his blog whether tattoos were common among scientists , he unwittingly became the curator of a set of incredible images , and of intimate stories that reveal a love affair with science

  • Hoping to See Asteroid 2005 YU55? There’s an App for That!

    Updated: 2011-11-07 22:44:38
    Starmap is an astronomy/planetarium app for the iPhone and iPad. A companion app, called Spacemap is an extended orrery that lets you view the phases, motions, and positions of items in the Universe all from your iPad. If you’re hoping to track down Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it comes close to Earth on Nov. 8, [...]

  • A new SMBC book! Plus, bonus me. | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-07 20:57:02
    Perhaps the single greatest feeling in the world — better than winning the lottery, better than seeing your baby being born, better than having fresh batteries in the TV remote — is waking up to find out you’re in the latest Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic. Click the panel here to read the whole thing. [...]

  • As Permafrost Melts, Methane-Munching Soil Bacteria Come to Life | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-11-07 20:39:21
    There’s a lot going on in Arctic permafrost as it melts and soil bacteria become more active. A new study explores how these bacteria may help or hinder our efforts to control the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. What’s the News: Melting permafrost in a warming world could mean lots of greenhouses gasses, especially methane, [...]

  • Astrobiologists discover sweet spots for the formation of complex organic molecules in the galaxy As

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  • Astrobiologists discover sweet spots for the formation of complex organic molecules in the galaxy As

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  • Newly found dwarf galaxies could help reveal the nature of dark matter Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-11-07 18:12:32
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  • Newly found dwarf galaxies could help reveal the nature of dark matter Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-11-07 18:12:31
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  • Chinese Elite Breathe Cleaner Air Than Countrymen | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-11-07 18:11:28
    Beijing smog as seen from the China World Hotel, March 2003. While top Chinese government officials have many advantages in terms of wealth, education, and status compared to most of their countrymen, the consolation remained that the rich had to breathe the same polluted air as the poor in smog-ridden cities like Beijing. But as [...]

  • Carnival of Space #222

    Updated: 2011-11-07 17:38:13
    A brand new Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang from Next Big Future. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #222. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email [...]

  • Just to be clear: asteroid YU55 is no danger to Earth | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-07 16:46:31
    Tomorrow, November 8, the 400-meter-wide asteroid 2005 YU55 will glide past the Earth, missing us by a very comfortable margin of 320,000 kilometers (200,000 miles). This distance is three-quarters of the way to the Moon, and is in fact so far that you’ll need a decent telescope to see it at all. However, I’m starting [...]

  • The Toughest Bear in the Universe #scienceink | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-11-07 15:30:06
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Radio : Friday 10 am PST 1 pm EST on KQED scienceink update : The New York Times does a slide show , and New Scientist approves The Toughest Bear in the Universe scienceink Spencer Debenport , a plant pathologist at Ohio State University , sports a tattoo of a tardigrade , a microscopic animal known as the water bear . I have always loved microscopic critters , and there is none other as intriguing as the tardigrade , 8221 he writes . The fact that they are so hardy , yet still that odd mixture of ugly cute drew me to them and the more I read up on them , the more I wanted one

  • Earth's "Hadal Zone" --Clues to What We Might Find in Alien Oceans

    Updated: 2011-11-07 08:40:00
    In the "hadal" zone, which at 11,000 meters is deeper than Mount Everest is high –- the pressure rises to 1,000 bar, or a ton per square centimeter. And as there is practically no light, and plants cannot grow, there...

  • Image of the Day: New Clues to the Black-Hole Powered "Thing"

    Updated: 2011-11-07 08:14:00
    In 2007, Hanny's Voorwerp, a curious gas cloud, brighter than 30,000 suns with no obvious power source, was found floating in intergalactic space. Since that initial discovery, 19 similar clouds have been observed, all glowing apparently without internal power. Current...

  • From the 'X Files': Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

    Updated: 2011-11-07 08:13:00
    The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been dominated for its first half century by a hunt for unusual radio signals transmitted by an advanced civilization. Writing exclusively in March’s Physics World, Davies, director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts...

  • EcoAlert: Climate Warming Threatens Release of Billions of Tons of Buried Arctic Carbon & Methane

    Updated: 2011-11-07 08:10:00
    From the North Pole to the Arctic Ocean, the frozen soils within this region keep an estimated 1,672 billion metric tons of carbon out of the Earth's atmosphere. This sequestered carbon is more than 250 times the amount of greenhouse...

  • 'The Daily Galaxy' November Contest -Win a Free $500 Apple Gift Card!

    Updated: 2011-11-07 08:00:00
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...

  • Awesome Action Animation Depicts Russia’s Bold Robot Retriever to Mars moon Phobos

    Updated: 2011-11-07 03:51:02
    In less than 48 hours, Russia’s bold Phobos-Grunt mechanized probe will embark on a historic flight to haul humanities first ever soil samples back from the tiny Martian moon Phobos. Liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome remains on target for November 9 (Nov 8 US EDT). For an exquisite view of every step of this first-of-its-kind [...]

  • Update: NASA Observation of Massive Asteroid Fly-By of Earth Tomorrow

    Updated: 2011-11-07 01:12:26
    A huge chunk of black rock bigger than four city blocks is speeding toward us at more than 30,000 miles an hour. Scientists say the asteroid will miss us, but it will be barely more than 200,000 miles away when...

  • Answer for WITU #156 Now Available

    Updated: 2011-11-06 19:16:43
    You can now find out just where in the Universe this image was taken and find the answer for last week’s WITU Challenge back on the original post. And check back later this week for another test of your visual knowledge of the cosmos. © nancy for Universe Today, 2011. | Permalink | No comment [...]

  • HUGE sunspots turning toward Earth | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-06 14:00:46
    As the Sun rotates roughly once per month, we see different features come into view… and the latest is an enormous sunspot system which just came around the limb of the Sun: [Click to magneticfieldentanglenate.] That shot was taken by the Mexican "amateur" astronomer César Cantú, and shows the spots — called Active Region 1339 [...]

  • Day 2 part 2 at the Advanced Imaging Conference 2011 Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Communi

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  • Day 2 at the Advanced Imaging Conference 2011 Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Foru

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  • Weekend Feature --Reddist Galaxies have Gigantic Central Region of Stars and Dark Matter

    Updated: 2011-11-05 07:10:00
    A team of researchers from Europe and the USA have measured the bar length of some 5000 galaxies with the help of amateur astronomers and released the most precise results obtained for 3150 galaxies. Scientists have discovered that the reddest...

  • NCBI ROFL: Salivary testosterone levels in men at a U.S. sex club. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-11-05 01:04:55
    “Vertebrate males commonly experience elevations in testosterone levels in response to sexual stimuli, such as presentation of a novel mating partner. Some previous human studies have shown that watching erotic movies increases testosterone levels in males although studies measuring testosterone changes during actual sexual intercourse or masturbation have yielded mixed results. Small sample sizes, “unnatural” [...]

  • Hubble directly observes the disk around a black hole Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-11-04 22:12:43
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  • Hubble directly observes the disk around a black hole Astronomy Magazine

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  • City lights could reveal E.T civilization Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-11-04 22:12:40
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  • City lights could reveal E.T civilization Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-11-04 22:12:39
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  • Brian May presents Queen One Vision” month at Astronomy magazine Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Onlin

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  • Column: Looking for New Forces | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2011-11-04 20:00:08
    While my first column for Discover was on the multiverse, the second one is more down to Earth (as these things go): searching for new forces. Of course we are searching for new short-range forces at the Large Hadron Collider and in other particle-physics experiments, but here I’m talking about long-range “fifth forces.” While there [...]

  • Low-Tech Vikings May Have Used Mineral With Funky Optics to Reach New World | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-11-04 17:40:59
    What’s the news: Viking legend has it that sailors could hold up crystal sunstones to the sky to help them find their way. Turns out the legend could be true. In a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of researchers found that a type of crystal [...]

  • NASA spies the birth throes of a new iceberg | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-04 13:00:43
    The Pine Island Glacier is a massive flowing river of ice on the western Antarctic ice shelf. And by massive, I mean massive: it’s 250 km (150+ miles) long, and has an area of 175,000 square kilometers — that’s bigger than the state of Iowa! Every year, a staggering 79 cubic kilometers (19 cubic miles) [...]

  • Radio: Friday 10 am PST (1 pm EST) on KQED | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-11-04 07:46:10
    I’m in San Francisco for the Bay Area Science Festival. On Friday at 10 am PST, I’ll be appearing on Forum, a morning show on KQED. Listen here live!

  • Image of the Day: Lights of Alien Civilizations --The New ET Search Beacon?

    Updated: 2011-11-04 07:14:00
    The image above taken from the International Space Station shows the lights of one of Earth's oldest civilizations --Egypt's Cairo and the Nile Delta. If an alien civilization builds brightly-lit cities like those shown above, future generations of telescopes might...

  • From the 'X Files': Alien World’s Moon Could Potentially Host Life

    Updated: 2011-11-04 07:06:00
    The newly discovered gas giant Kepler-16b, a Saturn-sized planet 200 light-years away .which like Star Wars’ Tatooine orbits two stars, has an orbiting moon that this planet might harbor ET life. Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars with about two-thirds...

  • On the road Germany Austria and the Czech Republic Days 9-10 Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Co

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  • NCBI ROFL: The physics of penguin huddling. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-11-03 22:38:17
    Coordinated movements prevent jamming in an Emperor penguin huddle. “For Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), huddling is the key to survival during the Antarctic winter. Penguins in a huddle are packed so tightly that individual movements become impossible, reminiscent of a jamming transition in compacted colloids. It is crucial, however, that the huddle structure is continuously [...]

  • Video of the Progress re-entry! | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-03 19:30:48
    Last week I posted a picture of the fiery re-entry of a Progress re-supply ship as seen by Mike Fossum on board the space station. It was one of several pictures he took, and via Universe Today is a video of the descent of the spacecraft! Holy wow! You can see the trail of plasma [...]

  • October’s solar blast, seen from the side | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-03 17:34:44
    Speaking of solar storms causing gorgeous auroral displays… In late October, a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a violent explosion of subatomic particles erupting from the Sun at high speeds — blasted away from our star, impacting the Earth, and setting off aurorae seen as far south as Arkansas. It was cloudy here in Boulder, [...]

  • Watery Epochs of Mars Hold Clues to Past and Present Life

    Updated: 2011-11-03 08:06:00
    The clays of massive Gale Crater, the landing site for the new NASA Curiosity rover may yield clues to the existence of ancient life forms on the Red Planet. Clay settles slowly in water and forms little platelets that conform...

  • Update: NASA's Kepler Space Telescope May Extend Its Search for Alien Planets

    Updated: 2011-11-03 07:55:00
    Congressional funding for Kepler — which has identified 1,235 candidate alien planets to date and recently discovered the first exoplanet with two suns in its sky — is due to run out in November 2012, but an extension may be...

  • Image of the Day: Geysers of Mercury

    Updated: 2011-11-03 07:14:00
    Recent discoveries by the Mercury MESSENGER Space Probe have included evidence of shallow depressions which have formed into non-uniform crater structures which appear to be recent. In addition, they have a high albedo – indicative of some sort of reflective... <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond?a=488j6y1k1Qc:Uft0YyZi0VI:yIl2AUoC8zA"

  • Thursday News Flash: Sci, Space, Tech

    Updated: 2011-11-03 07:04:00
    90-Year-Old Space Molecule Mystery Has New Clues Odd molecules in space that absorb light from distant stars have been detected in the center of our galaxy, giving scientists new hope of solving a nearly century-old mystery of what the molecules... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~4/qm7hhAuy7mM" height="1" width="1"/

  • NCBI ROFL: Ritter Sport chocolate – check. “When Harry Met Sally” DVD – check. Publication – check. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-11-03 00:19:31
    Immediate effects of chocolate on experimentally induced mood states. “In this work two hypotheses were tested: (1) that eating a piece of chocolate immediately affects negative, but not positive or neutral mood, and (2) that this effect is due to palatability. Experiment 1 (48 normal-weight and healthy women and men) examined the effects of eating [...]

  • Fort Collins, Colorado talk OF DEATH | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-02 23:06:41
    A quick note to folks in the Fort Collins, Colorado area: I’ll be giving my "Death from the Skies!" talk on Thursday, November 3 (tomorrow as I write this) at the Colorado State University campus there. The talk will be at the Lory Student Center East Ballroom at 7:00 p.m. It’s open to the public [...]

  • Top 10 reasons Einstein is awesome Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-11-02 19:12:02
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  • NASA to Develop Dust-Grabbing Tractor Beams for Future Missions | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-11-02 19:04:37
    Put ‘er here, R2. Fans of intergalactic exploration both real and fictional, rejoice: Future NASA missions may incorporate tractor beams, lasers that can pick up objects at a distance. “We’re caught in a tractor beam and it’s pulling us in!” is a long way off, but NASA has just awarded a team of scientists $100,000 [...]

  • Vampire-like Predatory Bacteria Could Become A Living Antibiotic | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-11-02 18:07:59
    The bacterium Micavibrio aeruginosavorus (yellow), leeching on a Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium (purple). What’s the news: If bacteria had blood, the predatory microbe Micavibrio aeruginosavorus would essentially be a vampire: it subsists by hunting down other bugs, attaching to them, and sucking their life out. For the first time, researchers have sequenced the genome of this strange microorganism, [...]

  • The solar system’s weirdest moon | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-11-02 17:00:49
    Our solar system is a fantastically bizarre place. There are worlds as varied as our imagination can grasp — in fact, they exhibit features we never imagined before we saw them up close. Storms larger than planets, moons with undersurface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that occasionally swap places… … and that’s just at Saturn. [...]

  • Interstellar Dust --Catalyst for Complex Organic Chemistry in the Universe

    Updated: 2011-11-02 08:34:00
    "Astronomers and astrochemists are working to try and understand the origin of chemical complexity. If that chemistry is the same wherever we look in our galaxy, and if we can reproduce it in the laboratory, then that chemistry can seed...

  • Probing Mercury's deepest secrets Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-28 00:31:25
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  • Vixen Optics BT81S-A Binocular Telescope Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-28 00:31:10
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  • Vixen Optics BT81S-A Binocular Telescope Astronomy Magazine

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  • Moonglow Technologies All Sky Cam Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-28 00:31:09
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  • Moonglow Technologies All Sky Cam Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-28 00:31:08
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  • Astronomy tests Tele Vue's new Delos eyepiece line Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-27 07:21:03
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  • Astronomy tests Tele Vue's new Delos eyepiece line Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-27 07:21:00
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  • More winter objects to wander through Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-25 04:22:06
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  • Explore more astronomy sites in California Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-25 04:22:06
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  • Decoding early Martian weather: Analyzing carbonate minerals in meteorite Allan Hills 84001

    Updated: 2011-10-24 06:20:01
    (PhysOrg.com) -- While geological evidence points to the presence of liquid water on Mars during the Noachian epoch (the period from 4.5 to 3.5 billion years ago), determining the temperature of that water – a factor critical to the probability of its ability to support early life – has hitherto been impossible. Recently, however, researchers at California Institute of Technology Geological and Planetary Sciences have derived a precipitation temperature of 18 °C from carbonate minerals found in the 4.1 billion-year-old Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) meteorite. Although this ancient aquifer’s temperature was relatively mild, the researchers note that their findings do not necessarily demonstrate habitability.

  • Bob Berman explores universe†s weirdest objects in new Astronomy publication Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-18 00:40:24
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  • Sheldon Reynolds' Feel Good CD giveaway Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-18 00:40:24
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  • Surprisingly Earth-like features revealed on Saturn’s moon

    Updated: 2011-10-13 05:03:52
    After meticulously stitching together images that were gathered over six years by a NASA spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, astronomers have created a global map of the surface of Titan, the ringed planet’s largest moon, and it features some surprisingly Earth-like geological features. An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Nantes in France, created the striking mosaic of ...

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