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Disciplined and observational study of the natural world including, but not limited to: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science.

Space Telescope Reveals Solar Enigma

Space Telescope Reveals Solar Enigma

The Hinode space telescope recently released data and images reveals for the first time that the Sun’s magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. The images and videos of the Sun’s chromosphere (thin layer of solar ...

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Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit and Disappears

Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit and Disappears

The California based company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) launched on Tuesday, 20 March 2007 its Falcon 1 rocket into space. The Falcon 1 was able to reach an altitude of approximately 200 miles (half the planned altitude) before disappearing ...

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NASA Reveals Prototype Moon Base

NASA Reveals Prototype Moon Base

As NASA is planning the return to the moon in around 2020, plans are on the way to develop a habitat that will allow continues human presence on its surface. The base camp planed by NASA will have to be ...

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“Eye of God” made of Comet’s Dust

“Eye of God” made of Comet’s Dust

Scientists using the Spitzer space telescope discovered that the dust surrounding the Helix nebula, also known as the “eye of god” due to its unique eye-like appearance, is the result of comets smashing into each other in the outer fringes ...

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Hubble Extrasolar Discovery

Hubble Extrasolar Discovery

In 2003 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. The findings have been published on Feb. 1 2007 in a letter to the journal Nature by researchers from the University of ...

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Psychedelic Saturn

Psychedelic Saturn

This image of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on December 13, 2006 at a distance of approximately 822,000 kilometers (511,000 miles) from the planet. The image of Saturn and its rings is composed of several images captured by ...

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Hinode Telescope Images Solar Corona

Hinode Telescope Images Solar Corona

In a December 20th, 2006 press conference in Japan, data, images, and videos of the Sun’s atmosphere from the Hinode X-Ray Telescope (XRT) were released. The Sun’s corona (or Solar Corona) reaches temperatures of over one million degrees and scientists ...

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Blue Origin VTOVL Vehicle Test Flight

Blue Origin VTOVL Vehicle Test Flight

Everybody’s an astronaut! That was the intention of the company Blue Origin, who designed and built the vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTOVL) system launch vehicle “New Shepard”. Blue Origin was created in 2000 by the American billionaire Jeffrey Bezos who ...

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Saturn’s Moon Captured on Video

Saturn’s Moon Captured on Video

Based on 14 frames captured when the unmanned Cassini spacecraft encountered Hyperion in early 2006, this first ever video shows the small, Saturn moon (280 km /174 mi. across) over a 12 hr period on flyby about 1 million km ...

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COROT Planet Finder Launched

COROT Planet Finder Launched

On December 27th, 2006, the COROT (COnvection ROtation and Planetary Transits) space-based telescope was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle. The COROT mission is run by the CNES (French Space Agency) with Austria, Belgium, Brazil, ...

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