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Space Pictures This Week: Surfing Mars, Mercury Rising

Source: National Geographic Museum

On June 3, 2013, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy took advantage of the ultimate panoramic views of the cosmos, by stationing himself with his camera and telephoto lens inside the International Space Station's observation deck, known as the C ...
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James Webb Telescope's last backbone component completed

Source: PhysOrg.com

(Phys.org) —Assembly of the backbone of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the primary mirror backplane support structure, is a step closer to completion with the recent addition of the backplane support frame, a fixture that will be used to connect ...
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In Hawaii, as on Mars, Lava Tubes Hide Secrets Beneath the Surface

Source: Discover Magazine

This is the ninth in a series of reports from the HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission. Read others in the series here. The first lava tube we encountered was large but inaccessible without specialized gear. C ...
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Stunning Space Photos of the Week (June 9-14)

Source: Discovery Channel

This week, NASA released X-ray observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the Andromeda Galaxy's central hub -- the pink dots are emissions from 26 new stellar-mass black hole candidates. A total of 35 stellar-mass black ...
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Fifty years ago, Tereshkova became first woman in space

Source: PhysOrg.com

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space in a scientific feat that was a major propaganda coup for the Soviet Union. Two years after Yuri Gagarin's historic first ma ...
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Binary Stars And Their 'Tatooine'-Style Planets May Be Perfect For Life, Research Suggests

Source: The Huffington Post

1a Supernova Remnant This undated photo shows a classic type 1a supernova remnant. Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize on October 4, 2011 for their research o ...
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Odd Martian Thermal Rhythm

Source: Humanitarian News

Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice. "We see a temperature maximum in the middle of the day, but we also see a temperature m ...
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Comets Spurred Life On Earth By Helping Create Key Molecules, New Research Suggests

Source: The Huffington Post

1a Supernova Remnant This undated photo shows a classic type 1a supernova remnant. Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize on ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post More like this Jun 9 2013, 8:49am CDT

10 Astounding Examples of Pareidolia In Outer Space

Source: Top 10 Lists - Listverse

Ever look at clouds and see a rabbit or a dog? Or pop out a piece of toast and see the partially burnt face of Jesus looking at you? This bizarre experience is called pareidolia—a psychological phenomenon whereby a s ...
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Spaced Out! 101 Astronomy Images That Will Blow Your Mind

Source: LiveScience.com

This hemispheric view of Venus was created using more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission, and is centered on the planet's North Pole. The Magellan spacecraft imaged m ...
Full article at: LiveScience.com More like this Jun 7 2013, 5:46pm CDT