Hubble Sees Impressive, Extra-Spirally Galaxy

Source: Softpedia

Astronomers operating the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have just released a new image of the extremely wound spiral galaxy ESO 498-G5. The object, located in the Pyxis constellation, is about 100 million light-years away from Earth and ...
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Military Ka-band terminals successfully tested over Yahsat Y1A

Source: AME Info

The significance of the trials, which were enabled by ARTSTRAT Certified SwiftLink Ka-band terminals from TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) and primary coordinator Boeing Commercial Satellite Services (BCS ...
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HD Video of Dragon Approaching, Docking to the ISS

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This amazing video, which NASA released on Friday, shows the Dragon spacecraft approaching the International Space Station, before its history-making docking with the orbital lab. For nearly 15 minutes, ...
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First Commercial Space Flight Supplies ISS

Source: WHYY

The SpaceX Dragon 9 spacecraft launched successfully last week and will be visible as it approaches and joins up with International Space Station. The only trick is that it has to be visible at the right time when we can actually see it. Dr ...
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NASA asks future explorers to respect historic landing sites

Source: Gizmag

When the last American astronauts blasted off from the Moon in 1972, it seemed as if they were leaving behind monuments that would stand for all time. On a lifeless, airless satellite there would never be any scavengers or so ...
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PM seeks to heal bad blood on Myanmar visit

Source: Reuters Mobile

1 of 2. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) shakes hands with Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin upon his arrival at the airport in Naypyitaw May 27, 2012. SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - In northwest Myanm ...
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SpaceX: Promises, Promises

Source: American Thinker

Arthur C. Clarke set his masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey in the first year of the twenty-first century for two reasons: to assure us that science and technology were on the cusp of great, far-sweeping changes, and to sugg ...
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The best recent sci-fi: May 27

Source: The Telegraph

Alex Adams offers bracing dystopian gloom in her debut novel White Horse (Simon ...
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CD of the Week: Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls

Source: MPR | Minnesota Public Radio

Imagine if a hot group of Mad Men-style PR/marketing gurus and creative designers had sat down last year and decided these are the main resume lines that a buzz band needs to fill for everyone to start taki ...
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