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While I find Twitter to be one of the most useless and boring things out there :), I guess it does have some uses ;).
The International Space Station (ISS) is easy to spot with the naked eye if you know when and where to look. A new notification service on Twitter will tell you exactly [...]

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Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the “Lunar Oasis” project.
“Imagine a bright flower on a plant in a crystal clear growth chamber on the surface [...]

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Comet Lulin will be closest to the Earth this week, and more precisely on February 24th. Comet Lulin will streak by the earth within 38 million miles – 160 times farther than the moon -and is expected to be visible to the naked eye.
The comet was discovered just one year ago, and the “Green Comet” [...]

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) may have discovered some ancient hot springs on the red planet. The significance is that liike Earth, organisms may have also thrived in the springs. Life on Earth can thrive in and around hydrothermal springs.
Carlton C. Allen and Dorothy Z. Oehler, from the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate [...]

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It’s not all that often you get to see a comet in the sky is it? No idea really. I just can’t remember ever seeing one, or hearing about seeing one other than Haley’s Comet which is observable every 78 years. Slim chance you would ever see that one twice eh? Better chance to find [...]

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While reading up on this I tried to find an accurate number as to how many man made satellites are actually orbiting the Earth right now. The numbers vary wildly depending on where you look. I saw one that suggested there were nearly 25,000 in a 1997 study. Both functional and non-functional. Another report from [...]

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On Monday, December 1, 2008 you can observe both Jupiter and Venus in the night sky in close proximity to the moon in North America. This can be observed with the naked eye, and since they are right by the moon you pretty much have to be in your sleep number bed catching Z’s [...]

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This fall the next Mars mission is designed to find out more conclusively whether or not it could support life. The Mars Science Laboratory instrument package will be able to study the martian environment with more accuracy than previous missions, but it will have some obstacles to overcome. Some of the most sensitive instruments will [...]

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Typically when I see that a celestial object can be viewed easily at any time I try to take a gander at it. According to Space.com, Mercury isn’t easily viewed very often.
Nonetheless, during these next three weeks we will be presented with an excellent opportunity to view Mercury in the early morning dawn sky. Mercury [...]

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In August a series of images were taken over a 20 minutethat are being dubbed as the best, and clearest picture of Jupiter ever. Scientist who have overcome their nerd years of acne, and actually got jobs doing what the love were able to take a 265 photo series and create a very clear [...]

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