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Yesterday, President Obama outlined NASA’s new path during a visit to the Kennedy Space Center. Not only did he mention flying beyond the moon, but actually landing on an asteroid. “By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space,” [...]

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If there is anything stranger than this I don’t know what is. I had just got done watching the television show “V” and this happened minutes later. A huge fireball in the sky came in and exploded in the midwest. This of course was just a meteor, but the timing was perfect. Hundreds of people [...]

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So…someone actually used some far reaching data to try and figure out some of the climate change issues. In this case 1.2 million years of Earth orbital cycles. UC Santa Barbara geologist, Lorraine Lisiecki, discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth’s orbital cycle to changes in Earth’s climate. Published in the scientific [...]

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Always surprises me when there is news such as this. We have been studying the moon for centuries, and we have even found ice deposits on moons for OTHER PLANETS, but we just find ice on OUR moon now? OK…obviously the moon isn’t the easiest thing to study being in space and all, but it [...]

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This isn’t Fahrenheit either. This is Celsius (Go to bottom to see Celsius to Fahrenheit calculation). Farhenheit is over 7 Trillion degrees . Scientists after a collision of gold atoms traveling at the speed of light took this temperature from a formation of a dense glob of matter. The matter was meaured at an estimated [...]

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Even after the U.S. Budget slashed the part that committed sending men back to the moon for 2011, President Obama maintained that his commitment to NASA was unwavering Wednesday. “My commitment to NASA is unwavering,” Obama said on a video-conference with astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Speaking from the White House, Obama called the [...]

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Primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have managed to conceal themselves for years. What this means for the most part is not that they couldn’t see the stars until now, but that they didn’t know which were much older than the other common stars in their view. “We have, in effect, found a flaw [...]

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The world of technology isn’t just for entertainment purposes. We can use it in any way possible. It helps with so many rescue efforts these days that it is probably not all that newsworthy when something like satellites is linked to helping relief efforts after disasters such as Haiti. Of course it is still interesting [...]

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Recent discovery of the planet CoRoT-7b (named after the French telescope that discovered it) is a called “Super-Earth”. The planet is orbiting a star about 480 light-years from Earth. The oddity of the world is pretty intense. Some characteristics of the planet include: rock rains, potentially raging volcanoes, and huge temperature differences between its night [...]

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Astronomers have observed that a star is no more. What they observed is that it didn’t die an ordinary death. New results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes (their stellar security cameras)suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the [...]

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