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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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A truly powerful image generates questions. The incredible night photos and time-lapse movies NASA has been sharing with us provoke questions about our planet. Awesome movie! Via Patrice AFRIAT, Guillaume Decugis
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An unseen world might be disturbing the orbits of several objects in the outer solar system, new calculations hint.
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Robert Hunt, an imaging scientist at Spitzer Science Center, explains how the Spitzer Space Telescope captured the infrared light of an alien super-Earth. ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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By all accounts Earth today should be a snowball planet, unless it formed closer to the cooler young sun and then migrated outward as the sun warmed.
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In the eighteenth edition we look at an Envisat image of frozen lakes, dotting the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.
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An Earth-like planet in the 'Goldilocks zone', i.e. at the right distance from its star to support life, will likely be found in the next two years, say NASA scientists.
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A black hole hitting Earth sounds like the ultimate doomsday scenario. But it probably won't hurt much, say researchers who created computer simulations to see what would happen if a puny primordial black hole, born just after the big bang, struck our planet.
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An international team of researchers, with the participation of IAC astronomers, has discovered that the chemical structure of Earth-like planets can be very different from the bulk composition of the Earth.
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Intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galaxies show a clear potential to continue on as we see them today for hundreds of billions of years, if not much longer. Because planets and life are so young in our Universe, says Harvard's Dimitar Sasselov, perhaps "the human species are not late comers to the party. We may be among the early ones."
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Recently discovered bus-sized asteroid 2012 BX34 will come closer to Earth than the Moon (36,750 miles away to be exact) on January 27th, 2012. See the orbit the space rock has and will take from January 10th to February 15th.
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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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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, ...
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The May 20 annular eclipse may have been an awesome sight for skywatchers across many parts of the Earth, but it was also being viewed by a robotic explorer around the Moon!
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Scientists at the University of Leeds are looking to discover how dust particles in the solar system interact with the Earth's atmosphere.
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In this twenty-second edition of ESA's "Earth From Space," two images from from the Envisat satellite are examined, showing northern France and its urban heat islands.
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NASA dreams big science. In this awesome new short, NASA presents the Earth, the planets, the Sun, and the endless universe beyond. Come for the cool, stay for the music, take away a sense of wonder to share. It's six minutes from Earth to forever, and you can see it here! Articles about NASA: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=NASA
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Celestial Lights is my second video project. It is another stop motion based video about the northern lights. The video is shot in the northern parts of Norway, Finland and Sweden during autumn 2011, winter and spring 2012.
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Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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You're looking at a stunning example of something astronomers and stargazers called "Earthshine." Known by some as "the old Moon in the new Moon's arms," Earthshine is a phenomenon first formally described by Leonardo da Vinci some 500 million...
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Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Headed Toward Earth, Estimated Time of Arrival 2040 | Popular Science
The UN is figuring out how to ward off a potential collision...
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Researchers harness Jaguar and Kraken to better understand solar storm/magnetosphere interaction
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