Spaceprobe reveals details about charged 'nanograins' near Saturn moon Enceladus

Source: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight

(Nanowerk News) It was a call that Rice University physicist Tom Hill '67 had waited more than 20 years to receive. It traveled almost a billion miles to reach him. And the message  once it arrived from NASA's Cassini spacecraft near Saturn  was so en ...
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Ahead of the curve: The next 7 days

Source: CNN

Here is a look at some of the stories that CNN plans to follow this week: War crimes sentence expected for former Liberia leader The first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes since World War II is expecte ...
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New evidence of unseen planet at solar system's edge found

Source: Deccan Herald

Astronomers claim to have found evidence that suggest a planet four times the size of Earth may be skirting the edges of the solar system beyond Pluto. The planet, which is too distant to be easily spotted by Earth-based telescopes, could be gra ...
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Matt Reed: Second look at cityhood, moon base, FCAT mess

Source: Florida Today

On my watchlist this week: A mystery surrounding Merritt Island cityhood, the Romney campaigns conflicting ideas on space exploration, and a report on who pays for all that high-stakes testing in Brevard Public Schools. The biggest ...
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Nonfiction review: Chasing Venus

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

On June 5 or 6, depending on the time zone, millions of people around the globe will watch Venus glide across the sun in a rare celestial event that won't happen again until 2117. Because the planet is just 1/32nd the d ...
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Star Talk: A moment in the sun

Source: The Schenectady Daily Gazette

June 5 transit of Venus will be last to occur until 2117 On June 5, just before 6:05 p.m., a rare alignment of the planet Venus with Earth and the sun will begin. A transit of Venus is among the most infrequent alignm ...
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What's Up in June: Solstice will be eclipsed by rare transit of Venus

Source: The Portland Maine Press Herald

June always marks the beginning of summer for us in the Northern Hemisphere. That will happen at 7:09 p.m. Wednesday, June 20. The sun reaches its highest and northernmost point on the celestial sphere at that moment. That is also known as the sum ...
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Cook app transits the centuries

Source: The Age

WHEN Captain James Cook set sail to observe the transit of Venus in 1769, he was part of a global project to measure the solar system - and he went on to discover something even cooler, Australia. Children at 300 schools throughout Australia ...
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Source: OpPapers.com

HUM 176 January 22, 2012 Jeffrey Hineline The movie Serenity is a story about a group of people on a spaceship, called Serenity, that are hiding a psychic girl, River, from the government because of secrets she might have learned. In the movie, ...
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