Topic: Space - on October 11, 2007 at 4:50:00 PM CEST
New currency for space travellers
Scientists have come up with a new currency designed to be used by inter-planetary travellers.
It is called the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid.
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Topic: Space - on October 9, 2007 at 2:58:00 PM CEST
Astronomers witness birth of a mini-Earth
A long time ago, in a star system far, far away, an Earth-like planet is forming. It is actually only 424 light years away in a system known as HD 113766, outside the reach of your Oyster cards* but a mere stroll in astronomical terms.
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Topic: Space - on September 25, 2007 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
Porjus and Northern Lights - Auroras expected 28 september - 3 october!
Porjus is a village in Swedish Lapland, the northern part of Sweden. This is the place where Northern Lights are most frequently seen and are at their best. With just a little more than 400 inhabitants, Porjus is a small village. Being small like that, there is little artificial light. So it gets dark, very dark. The ideal place for experiencing one of the most impressive, natural light spectacles on earth: Northern Lights! Just outside your apartment door, in the heart of Lapland.....
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Topic: Space - on September 16, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Private Satellite Videos (and Shots from a Balloon)
My friend Joe L. in Texas passed along an image and a video taken by the Bigelow Aerospace Genesis-II spacecraft. He told me that the satellite contains 22 internal and external cameras.
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Topic: Space - on September 7, 2007 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
Lunar Eclipse (from Taipei)
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Topic: Space - on September 3, 2007 at 4:10:00 PM CEST
'Clearest' images taken of space
A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
They were acquired using a new "adaptive optics" system which sharpens pictures taken from the Mount Palomar Observatory in California.
The images are twice as sharp as those from Hubble Space Telescope.
The new system, dubbed "Lucky", is the result of work by a team from Cambridge University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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Topic: Space - on August 25, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
Uranus strikes a pose for Hubble's camera
Hubble has snapped a gorgeous shot of the rings of Uranus. The picture is extremely rare because the rings happen to be tilted perfectly edge on to Earth, an alignment that happens just twice every 894 years as the planet orbits the sun.
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Topic: Space - on August 23, 2007 at 1:11:00 PM CEST
Your Real Sun
OK, having a personal Moon is a cool idea. Now watch our real Sun in several clips with amazing details with The Sun in Motion.
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Topic: Space - on August 21, 2007 at 2:51:00 PM CEST
Rare dead star found near Earth
Astronomers have spotted a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood - a dead star with some unusual characteristics.
The object, known as a neutron star, was studied using space telescopes and ground-based observatories.
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Topic: Space - on August 16, 2007 at 9:14:00 PM CEST
A Star with a Comet's Tail
Astronomers using a NASA space telescope, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, have spotted an amazingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space. The star, named Mira after the Latin word for "wonderful," has been a favorite of astronomers for about 400 years, yet this is the first time the tail has been seen.
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Topic: Space - on August 12, 2007 at 2:17:00 PM CEST
Fly Me to the Moon: Space Hotel Sees 2012 Opening
"Galactic Suite," the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes.
Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three-day stay.
During that time guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.
Company director Xavier Claramunt says the three-bedroom boutique hotel's joined up pod structure, which makes it look like a model of molecules, was dictated by the fact that each pod room had to fit inside a rocket to be taken into space.
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Topic: Space - on July 24, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Top 10 Best Spacewalks ever
Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of a spacecraft. The term most commonly applies to an EVA made outside a craft orbiting Earth (a spacewalk). As of September 13, 2006, 158 astronauts had made spacewalks (out of 448 astronauts ever in space). These are some of the most interesting moments in spacewalks history:.
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