Topic: Space - on October 18, 2006 at 9:23:00 AM CEST
Colliding galaxies make love, not war
A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.
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Topic: Space - on March 16, 2005 at 8:25:00 AM CET
Robot Finds Life in Desert, Mimicking Skills Needed on Mars
A robot laden with sensor equipment has detected life on the arid terrain of the Chilean desert, a first for rover-based systems.
Nobody was surprise to find life there, but with the harsh conditions and sparse biological activity, the feat is likened to finding microbial creatures on Mars if any exists there.
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Topic: Space - on February 27, 2005 at 3:41:00 PM CET
Starless 'Dark' Galaxy Found
An international team of scientists said it's found a new type of galaxy, one without stars.
But not everyone's convinced this "dark" galaxy is anything more than the debris from two galaxies colliding.
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Topic: Space - on February 12, 2005 at 3:51:00 PM CET
Six million pixels from Pluto.
This is a work in progress... 1 pixel = ~1,000 km; images are to scale with each other (This page does not display properly in Safari and Opera; they do not support super-wide tables or images, apparently.)
troybrophy.com Celestia is real-time 3D space simulation.
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Topic: Space - on November 1, 2004 at 8:45:00 AM CET
Astronaut Votes From Space
NASA's newest astronaut plans to cast his vote this year from 362 kilometers high. Leroy Chiao said Monday that the space agency has been working hard with the local and federal government to make voting for him possible.
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Topic: Space - on September 13, 2004 at 8:56:00 AM CEST
Space probes feel cosmic tug of bizarre forces
Something strange is tugging at America's oldest spacecraft. As the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes head towards distant stars, scientists have discovered that the craft - launched more than 30 years ago - appear to be in the grip of a mysterious force that is holding them back as they sweep out of the solar system.
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Topic: Space - on September 8, 2004 at 11:22:00 PM CEST
Genesis Probe Crashes
Due to a failure of its main `chutes, the Genesis Solar Probe has crashed into the Utah desert. Teams are currently trying to recover as much of the probe as possible, both for its science and to find out what went wrong.
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Topic: Space - on September 2, 2004 at 7:28:00 PM CEST
Writing Better Than the Phone to Contact ET?
Writing, rather than phoning, is probably the best way to contact extraterrestrials, American scientists said Wednesday. So instead of phoning home, it could have been more energy efficient if ET had inscribed information and physically sent it, because radio waves disperse as they travel.
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Topic: Space - on September 2, 2004 at 7:19:00 PM CEST
Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact?
An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico.
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Topic: Space - on August 14, 2004 at 9:16:00 AM CEST
Russian UFO Wreckage A Hoax
Recent claims made by a group of Russian scientists that they have found evidence of extraterrestrial visitors (reported) are "a rather stupid hoax," says researcher Benny Peiser, at the Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
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Topic: Space - on July 24, 2004 at 8:49:00 AM CEST
UFO in Tirol?
Beobachtungen der Dritten Art im Bayerisch-Tiroler Grenzgebiet: Nach Angaben der UFO-Meldestelle des Mannheimer Amateurastronomen Werner Walter vom Centralen Erforschungs-Netz haben Beobachter in den bayerischen Orten Schliersee und Pfaffenhofen sowie in Kufstein in der Nacht auf Freitag „eine gleißend helle Leuchtkugel“ quer am Himmel gegen Österreich geräuschlos dahinschießen gesehen.
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Topic: Space - on July 11, 2004 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
Satellite 'Aura' launch delayed
The US space agency has delayed its launch of Aura, a satellite designed to check the health of the Earth's atmosphere.
The launch due on Sunday has been delayed for two days for technical reasons, officials said.
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