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NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Via Guillaume Decugis 
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Back in 2011, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at Pluto to help astronomers prepare for an upcoming spacecraft visit, and it spotted a tiny object
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Much of the radiation energy that makes it through is reflected back into space by clouds, ice and snow and the energy that remains helps to drive the Earth system, powering a remarkable planetary engine – the climate. It becomes the energy that feeds swirling wind and ocean currents as cold air and surface waters move toward the equator and warm air and water moves toward the poles – all in an attempt to equalize temperatures around the world.
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Solar flares are classified by letters B, C, M and X. Similar to the earthquake scale, the power unleashed is measured exponentially. Find out what it can da...
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Earth, Moon and Soyuz. Credit: NASA/Kevin Ford. This one might have to be added to the group of iconic images from space. On December 21, a Soyuz
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Streams of gas surrounding a young star are being guzzled up by what is thought to be a giant planet in the making. An animation has been created using imagery captured by the European Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope.
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"Monster" outflows of charged particles from the centre of our Galaxy, stretching more than halfway across the sky, have been detected and mapped.
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A newly discovered form of circle dancing is perplexing astronomers; not due to its complex choreography, but because it's unclear why the dancers – dwarf galaxies – are dancing in a ring around the much larger Andromeda Galaxy.
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Neil Armstrong always maintained that he'd thought up possibly the most famous line in American history just after landing on the moon, but in an interview with The Telegraph, his brother says the origin story starts months before the landing, back on earth, and with a game of Risk.
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NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT).
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Two of Saturn's shepherd moons face off across the icy strand of the F ring in this image, acquired by the Cassini spacecraft on December 18, 2012.
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Ancient, Saturn-like ring systems may have acted as assembly lines for natural satellites...
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WARNING: This is a non-conventional view of our solar system. If you can't handle that, please try to remain calm. It is OK for people to have different view...
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Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news. The planet Mercury is about to make its best apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers.
SSMS Science's curator insight,
November 11, 2013 10:10 PM
The first part of this video already happened, but the second part is very interesting. CB
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Astronomers have probably found the oldest star of the universe, i.e. nearly 13.2 billion years old, and interestingly it is located near to our Solar System.
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Something is orbiting the bright star Fomalhaut in the constellation known as the Southern Fish, but no one knows exactly what it is. New observations carried out last year with the Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the mysterious object, known as Fomalhaut b, is traveling on a highly elongated path, but they haven't convincingly nailed down its true nature. But if it is a planet, as one team of astronomers thinks, we may be in for some celestial fireworks in 2032, when Fomalhaut b starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star and icy comets within the belt smash into the planet's atmosphere.
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John Chumack (http://galacticimages.com) pointed his cameras to the skies on several occasions in 2012 and delivered amazing shots of solar activity, galaxies, comets, the moon and more.
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On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. ‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
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Try to imagine the red planet filled with oceans, a thick atmosphere... and a biosphere.
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The ALMA telescope gives astronomers their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation and helps resolve a mystery about how young planets and their infant star can both grow at the same time.
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Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it for the first time. That light may hold within it the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics – why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Scientists in the international Dark Energy Survey collaboration have announced that the Dark Energy Camera, the product of eight years of planning and construction by scientists, engineers and technicians on three continents, has achieved first light. The first pictures of the southern sky were taken by the 570-megapixel camera on Sept. 12, 2012.
Sakis Koukouvis's insight:
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22 days of data from the Suomi NPP satellite went into making this beautiful and eerie view of the Earth at night, spinning in a black sky. The satellite can see in the visible and near-infrared at high sensitivity, able to map city lights, fires, and even moonlit weather. This animation is made from real images, mapped onto the previously existing Blue Marble images to make the view more realistic.
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We are all star stuff, as Carl Sagan once so eloquently put it--we come from remnants, the leftover pieces of long-dead stars and the elements forged
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Watch them orbit on scale and sort them by size: great job by the nytimes!
Nice interactive infographic, check it out an learn more...