Topic: Space - on January 23, 2007 at 5:11:00 PM CET
China confirms satellite downed
China has confirmed it carried out a test that destroyed a satellite, in a move that caused international alarm.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said a test had been carried out but insisted China was committed to the "peaceful development of outer space".
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Topic: Space - on January 12, 2007 at 3:15:00 PM CET
Hellster Komet in 30 Jahren am Himmel
Der zurzeit noch in Europa zu sehende Komet McNaught ist nach Einschätzung eines NASA-Forschers der hellste Komet in 30 Jahren. Der nach seinem australischen Entdecker benannte Komet sei sechs Mal heller als Hale-Bopp im Jahr 1997 und 100 Mal heller als der Halleysche Komet im Jahr 1986.
Vermutlich beste Sichtbarkeit am 9. - 11. January 2007, etwa 17:20 pm or 7:30 am, MEZ ( München, ~ 48,20°).
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Topic: Space - on January 12, 2007 at 3:14:00 PM CET
Comet McNaught
Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) is plunging toward the Sun and brightening dramatically. It is now visible both at sunset and at dawn. In the morning, the comet emerges just ahead of the rising sun. In the evening, it pops out of the western twilight as soon as the sun sets. In both cases, a clear view of the horizon is essential.
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Topic: Space - on December 26, 2006 at 10:30:00 AM CET
The Meteor Farmer
FOR TWO WEEKS, STEVE ARNOLD TRUDGED through the dusty farmland of Kiowa County, Kansas, a 6-foot rope trailing over his shoulder. Tied to the end of the rope was a metal detector cobbled together from PVC pipe and duct tape. Back and forth Arnold paced, pulling the jury-rigged device across the dirt, hunting for meteorites. He had already found a few, but nothing bigger than 100 pounds or so. Mostly, he found horseshoes. And beer cans. Soon the farmers would want him off their land; planting season was coming. To speed things up, Arnold attached his contraption to a tractor. He was sure there was a bigger rock out there, just a few feet beneath the turf.
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Topic: Space - on December 7, 2006 at 10:31:00 AM CET
Magnetic whirlpools feed Earth’s magnetosphere
Giant whirlpools of electrically charged gas, some 40 000 kilometres across, have been witnessed above the Earth by a team of European and American scientists. Using data from ESA's Cluster quartet of spacecraft, the researchers have shown that these whirlpools inject electrified gas into the magnetic environment of the Earth.
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Topic: Space - on November 24, 2006 at 9:59:00 AM CET
Russian fires off space golf shot
A Russian cosmonaut has made golfing history by firing a tee shot from a precarious perch outside the International Space Station (ISS).
Flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin stood on a ladder by the docking port and hit a light-weight ball using a gold-plated six-iron club.
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Topic: Space - on November 19, 2006 at 11:33:00 AM CET
9 Billion-Year-Old ‘Dark Energy’ Reported
A strange thing happened to the universe five billion years ago. As if God had turned on an antigravity machine, the expansion of the cosmos speeded up, and galaxies began moving away from one another at an ever faster pace.
Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that billions of years before this mysterious antigravity overcame cosmic gravity and sent the galaxies scooting apart like muscle cars departing a tollbooth, it was already present in space, affecting the evolution of the cosmos.
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Topic: Space - on November 16, 2006 at 11:47:00 AM CET
Sombrero Galaxy
The Sombrero Galaxy (also known as M104 or NGC 4594) is an unbarred Sa spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It has a bright nucleus, an unusually large central bulge, and a prominent dust lane in its disk. The dark dust lane and the bulge give this galaxy the appearance of a sombrero. This 8th magnitude galaxy can easily be seen with small telescopes.
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Topic: Space - on November 8, 2006 at 8:05:00 PM CET
Hubble Create Colorful Masterpiece
A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet, and visible-light colors. It was "painted" by hundreds of baby stars on a canvas of gas and dust, with intense ultraviolet light and strong stellar winds as brushes.
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Topic: Space - on November 3, 2006 at 10:23:00 AM CET
Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
- a singularly talented photographer.
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Topic: Space - on October 27, 2006 at 11:59:00 PM CEST
Mit dem Fahrstuhl ins All
Ruhrpott-Schüler beeindrucken im NASA-Wettbewerb
Mit dem Fahrstuhl ins All zu reisen ist ein kühner Traum science-fiction-begeisterter Menschen. Eine junge Know-How-Elite aus Recklinghausen hat ein solch ehrgeiziges Ingenieursmodell nun auf die Beine gestellt und damit den dritten Platz im Konstruktionswettbewerb der NASA gewonnen.
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Topic: Space - on October 24, 2006 at 3:28:00 PM CEST
Shuttle Launch as seen from ISS somewhere high
WOW
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