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- Encounter Of A Different Kind: Rosetta Observes Asteroid At Close Quarters
- Giant Furnace Opens To Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank
- New Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way's Super-massive Black Hole
- Theory Of Sun's Role In Formation Of Solar System Questioned
- Large Hadron Collider Switch-on Fears Are Completely Unfounded, Report Finds
- A Fine-tooth Comb To Measure The Accelerating Universe
- Venus: Global Structure Of Winds And Clouds Have Been Mapped
- Closest Look Ever At Edge Of A Black Hole
- Astronomers Discover Missing Link For Origin Of Comets
- Last-ever Look At ESA's Gravity Satellite GOCE
- Thousand-ruby Galaxy: Pinwheel Shines In The Darkness
- Origin Of Cosmic Dust That Lands On Earth Discovered
- Analysis Begins On Phoenix Mars Lander's Deepest Soil Sample
- NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends To Level Ground
- Antarctic Research Helps Shed Light On Climate Change On Mars
- Rosetta Spacecraft On Its Way To Meet Asteroid Steins
- Origin Of High Energy Emission From Crab Nebula Identified
- Cluster Watches Earth's Leaky Atmosphere
- Minimum Mass For Galaxies Discovered: Breakthrough Sheds Light On Mysterious Dark Matter
- Clash Of Clusters Provides New Dark Matter Clue
- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Victoria Crater
- How Do Galaxies Grow? Massive Galaxies Caught In The Act Of Merging
- New Space Telescope Reveals Entire Gamma-ray Sky
- GOCE Earth Explorer Satellite To Look At The Earth's Surface And Core
- Generations Of Stars Pose For Family Portrait
- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Digs Deeper As Third Month Nears End
- Mid-Depth Soil Collected For Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander
- Stellar Stillbirths: Brown Dwarfs Revealed As Third Class Of Celestial Bodies After Stars And Planets
- Mystery Of Young Stars Near Black Holes Solved
- Space Age Engineers To Verify Control Software For Future Robotic Inter-planetary Missions
- Most Black Holes Might Come In Only Small And Large
- Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster In Erupting Galaxy
- Key Advance Toward 'Micro-spacecraft'
- Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site By Trenching
- Astronomers Find Unusual New Denizen Of The Solar System
- Cassini Pinpoints Source Of Jets On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
- Partial Lunar Eclipse On 16th August
- Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image Of Martian Dust Particle
- To The Moon And Mars: Psychologists Show New Ways To Deal With Health Challenges In Space
- Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby
- Students Build And Launch A Sensor Into Space
- Maximum Of Perseid Meteor Shower
- Colorful Star Birth Region Near Tarantula Nebula Unveiled On Hubble's 100,000th Orbit Milestone
- Soil Studies Continue At Site Of Phoenix Mars Lander
- Solar System Is Pretty Special, According To New Computer Simulation
- Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit 'Surgery'
- Is There Life On Jupiter's Moon Europa? Finding Signs Of Current Geological Activity On A Frozen World
- Clumps And Streams Of Dark Matter May Lie In Inner Regions Of Milky Way
- Kuiper Belt Object Travelling the Wrong-Way in a One-Way Solar System
- Space Shuttle: NASA Alters Launch Dates for STS-125, STS-126
- Cassini Detects Arcs of Material at Saturn Moons
- Integral Locates Origin of High-Energy Emission from Crab Nebula
- STS-125: Space Shuttle Atlantis Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39A
- Maui astronomy center to mark 1st anniversary
- New Eye to the Universe Under Construction
- Why Early Earth Did Not Freeze
- Backyard astronomers watching the Perseid meteor shower last month saw meteoroids hitting not only E
- Milky Way look-alike is a 'ruby'-studded stunner
- NASA seeks next Carl Sagan - and extraterrestrial life
- Scoping Out A Black Hole
- STS-125: Space Shuttle Atlantis - Roll Over to Pad 39A NET Thurs Sep 4
- The biggest telescope, on the biggest mountain?
- The almanac
- Doorstep Astronomy: Venus Shines Bright
- AAS role in Astronomy Education [Dynamics of Cats]
- Op-Ed Contributor: Georgia Splits the Kremlin
- Group will fight telescope
- New comet discovered by Swiss amateur astronomer: report
- New Partial Rings Discovered Around Saturn
- Look, Up in the Sky! Strange Star Names
- Spore is More: Build Your Own Alien at Home
- Despite Glitch, European Spacecraft's Asteroid Flyby a Success
- European Cargo Ship Departs Space Station
- Storms Delay Shuttle Missions to Hubble, Space Station
- Mars Water Mystery Surfaces
- Why Early Earth Did Not Freeze
- Strange New Comet Explains Old Mystery
- Space Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad
- Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole
- How to Build Lunar Homes From Moon Dirt
- BLOG: Astronauts Update Space Station Antivirus Software
- Very Short Movie: The Clouds of Mars
News from About Space / Astronomy
- Hurricanes and NASA
- Computer Virus Hits International Space Station
- Spitzer Space Telescope Pictures Gallery
- NASA Kennedy to Reopen for Normal Operations Today
- Mars Close to Earth Email
- Michael Phelps and Olympic Swimmers Shattering Records in NASA-Tested Suit
- NASA'S Kennedy Space Center Closes For Tropical Storm Fay
- TIROS - World's First Weather Satellite
- Friday Question - How Do You Watch the Night Sky?
- NASA Finds Water on Mars . . . Again
- Rosetta observes asteroid Steins
- Rosetta Steins fly-by confirmed
- MESSENGER sails on Sun's fire for second flyby of Mercury
- Cassini images ring arcs among Saturn's moons
- Fly me (safely) to the Moon
- Spiky probe raises vapor quandary
- Last-ever look at ESA's gravity satellite GOCE
- HiRISE images for September 3, 2008
- Faults in the Caloris Basin
- Scientists measure wind details of Venus
- Rosetta Steins fly-by timeline
- Analysis begins on deepest soil sample
- Cassini ISS images - August 25-29 2008
- Mars Odyssey THEMIS images - August 25-29 2008
- Phoenix conducting extended activities on Mars
- The Fire Cracker Galaxy - NGC 6946 by Dietmar Hager
- Opportunity Twitters Self Portrait
- Rosetta Flies By 'Diamond in the Sky' Steins
- "Eight Minutes of Terror": Solar Physicists Find a Supersonic Way to See the Transition Region
- Goodbye Jules Verne: ATV Undocks From Station
- Kuiper Belt Object Travelling the Wrong-Way in a One-Way Solar System
- Black Holes Can Only Get So Big
- Explore Earth's Satellites with Google Earth
- New Report: LHC Switch-on Fears Are Completely Unfounded
- Sleek, Sexy Spacecraft to Launch Next Week
- Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - September 5 - 7, 2008
- Podcast: Science Fiction at Dragon*Con with Plait and Grazier
- Carnival of Space #69
- The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space
- Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Two of Saturn's Moons
- Phoenix Probe Says Both Yes and No to Water on Mars
- Atlantis Rolls to the Launch Pad
- The LHC Will Revolutionize Physics. Can it Revolutionize the Internet Too?
- US Astronauts May Have to Leave Space Station in 2012
- Communicating Via the Cepheid Galactic Internet
- NASA Reaches Out to Design Students to Confront Lunar Dust Problem
- Where In The Universe Challenge #19
- Asteroid Imposters
- Astronomers Link Telescopes to Zoom In On Milky Way's Black Hole
- Understanding the "Superotation" Winds of Venus
- New partial rings discovered around Saturn
- European probe zooms past asteroid
- Storms force shift in shuttle schedule
- Derf, Dnoces and other strange star names
- Cosmic Log: Black holes for kids
- Strange new comet explains old mystery
- Scientists size up galaxy?s black hole
- NASA seeks next Carl Sagan ? and E.T.
- Watch Martian clouds fly by
- Slide show: Feast your eyes on sky highlights
- New maps detail solar system objects
- NASA delays space shuttle move
- Doorstep astronomy: Venus shines bright
- Boeing Launches GeoEye-1 Earth-Imaging Satellite
- NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 6 September 2008
- Images From Rosetta's Encounter With Asteroid Steins: A Diamond in the Sky
- NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 5 September 2008
- ESA's ATV successfully undocks from International Space Station
- AIP FYI #88: Report Offers Recommendations on Future Role of OSTP
- International Space Station Imagery; Interior view of the Zvezda Service Module
- Progress 29 cargo craft Departs From ISS
- Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Friday potporri
- NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale's Blog: Office of Security and Program Protection
- NASA Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons
- NASA OIG: Final Memorandum on the Review of Rocket Segment Handling
- NASA Space Station Crew Timeline 6 September 2008
- NASA Space Station Crew Timeline 5 September 2008
- NASA Space Station Crew Timeline 4 September 2008
- NASA Space Station Crew Timeline 3 September 2008
- NASA Space Station Crew Timeline 2 September 2008
- NASA Space Station Crew Timeline 1 September 2008
- NASA Space Station Crew Timeline 31 August 2008
- NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Thursday, September 04, 2008
News from Digg / Space
- Gorgeous View of Space Shuttle Atlantis and Surrounding Area
- NASA's Contribution to the War on Terror: Spy Satellites
- NASA to Explore the "Secret Layer" of the Sun
- ?Anyone Who Thinks The LHC Will Destroy The World is a Twat"
- APOD: Milky Way Road Trip
- Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole
- NASA Image - Astronauts: Past and Present
- 50 Billion Suns! What is the Size The Biggest Single Object?
- How Big Can a Black Hole Grow?
- APOD: 31 Million Miles from Planet Earth
- ESA Spacecraft Operations - Rosetta Steins fly-by time
- Sun's face virtually spot-free for months
- NASA Image - A Clash of Clusters
- Super-Space Cube "to Link All Known Technologies"
- APOD: NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
- Top 10 Weird Things Sent Into Space
- Stunning Photo of Shuttle Atlantis Breaking Sound Barrier
- NASA Preparing to Service Hubble for the Last Time [PICS]
- Preparing to Service Hubble for the Last Time (in PICs)
- Preparing to Rescue Hubble
- Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space
- When a Massive Asteroid from Space Smashes into Earth...
- APOD: Eclipse over the Great Wall
- APOD: The View from Everest
- Cosmic crash reveals dark matter
- Integral locates origin of high emission, from Crab Nebula
- NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground
- NASA to study extending shuttle era to 2015
- New Milky Way map reveals a complicated outer galaxy
- NASA - The Eagle Prepares to Land (Image)
- How MythBusters Will Shut Up Moon Conspiracy Theorists 2nite
- NASA Images Show Gamma Ray Bursts Across Milky Way - washing
- TV's 'Mythbusters' Tackle Moon Landing Hoax Claim
- Shoulder Motor Balks on Opportunity's Robotic Arm
- Strange Clouds at the Edge of Space
- Phoenix Digs Deep for 90th Day on Mars
- Sky survey yields new cosmic haul [not a normal asteroid]
- APOD: NGC 7008: The Fetus Nebula
- Gorgeous Image of Endeavour with Earth in the Backdrop
- Just How Nasty Is Space Food?
- Hurricane Gustav
- LHC switch-on fears are completely unfounded
- Astronomers discover missing link for origin of comets
- Petascale climate modeling heats up at University of Miami
- Last-ever look at ESA's gravity satellite GOCE
- A fine-tooth comb to measure the accelerating universe
- Theory of the sun's role in formation of the solar system questioned
- Closest look ever at the edge of a black hole
- AGU journal highlights -- Sept. 3, 2008
- New virtual telescope zooms in on Milky Way's super-massive black hole
- Next stop: The fourth dimension
- AIAA Pickering Lecture to focus on Phoenix Mars Mission
- Team led by scientists from University of the Basque Country manage to measure wind details of Venus
- Cosmic connections: Imperial scientist locates the origin of cosmic dust
- The thousand-ruby galaxy
- The adventure of space enterprise in the 21st century
- Galaxy Zoo -- an Internet superstar
- Understanding the science of solar-based energy: more researchers are better than one
- Antarctic research helps shed light on climate change on Mars
- Arctic ice on the verge of another all-time low
- Andrew Viterbi receives National Medal of Science
- Collision of galaxy clusters captured by astronomers
- A clash of clusters provides another clue to dark matter
- Hubble and Chandra composite of the galaxy cluster MACS J0025.4-1222
- NPL to create 'encyclopedia for space nanomaterials'
- Spotting the Minimum
- Brown Dwarfs
- Stellar Types
- Magnitude and Color in Astronomy
- The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram of the Nearest Stars
- Table of the 10 Brightest stars within 10 Parsecs of the Sun
- The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram of Star Clusters
- The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
- Protostars
- Theories of the Birth of Binary Stars
- Binary Stars
- Binary Stars and Stellar Mass
- The Mass Density of the Local Galactic Disk
- Molecular Cloud Collapse
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Jeff Burton
