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Asteroid 2012 KA to Buzz Earth on May 17

Universe Today about 9 hours ago

Asteroid 2012 KA to Buzz Earth on May 17

On the heels of a bus-sized asteroid that passed harmlessly between Earth and the orbit of the Moon on May 13, another asteroid between 4.5 and 10 meters (14-33 feet) wide will buzz by at about the...

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The Big Dipper Like You’ve Never Seen It Before!

Universe Today about 12 hours ago

The Big Dipper Like You’ve Never Seen It Before!

All right, it may look just like any other picture you've ever seen of the Big Dipper. Maybe even a little less impressive, in fact. But, unlike any other picture, this one was taken from 290 milli...

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4,700 Asteroids Want to Kill You

Universe Today about 14 hours ago

4,700 Asteroids Want to Kill You

There are now 4,700 asteroids out there — plus or minus 1,500 – that are considered Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). This is the latest and best assessment yet of our solar system's populati...

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Opportunity Roving Mars Once Again

Universe Today about 20 hours ago

Opportunity Roving Mars Once Again

After spending 19 weeks working in one place during the Martian winter in Meridian Planum, the Opportunity Mars rover is now roving once again. During the winter, available solar power was too low ...

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The long reach of the Centaur’s dark heart | Bad Astronomy

The long reach of the Centaur’s dark heart | Bad Astronomy

Every now again I get surprised by a photo, showing me something I didn't know about. And I love it even more when that surprise is from an object I thought I knew! So check out this incredible i...

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Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer

Universe Today 1 day ago

Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer

Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered a way to identify and track sulfuric compounds in Earth's marine environment, opening a path to either refute or support a decades-old hypo...

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Space Exploration By Robot Swarm

Universe Today 1 day ago

Space Exploration By Robot Swarm

With all there's yet to learn about or solar system from the many smaller worlds that reside within it — asteroids, protoplanets and small moons — one researcher from Stanford University is suggest...

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Crowdsourcing the Hunt for Potentially Dangerous Asteroids

Universe Today 2 days ago

Crowdsourcing the Hunt for Potentially Dangerous Asteroids

What's the best way to look for potentially hazardous asteroids? Get as many eyes on the sky as you can. That's the impetus behind a new partnership between the European Space Agency and the Faulke...

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Expedition 31 Blasts Off!

Universe Today 2 days ago

Expedition 31 Blasts Off!

After a six-week delay, the crew of Expedition 31 successfully launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-04M rocket on Tuesday, May 15 at 0301 GMT (11:01 p.m. EDT May 14) from Russia's historic Baikonur Cosmodro...

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Former Astronaut Criticizes NASA’s Current Course

Universe Today 3 days ago

Former Astronaut Criticizes NASA’s Current Course

Former NASA astronaut Story Musgrave is neither happy nor excited about the current state of the space administration or about the commercial COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) progr...

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Vote for the Curiosity Rover to Become a Lego Toy

Universe Today 3 days ago

Vote for the Curiosity Rover to Become a Lego Toy

I know a lot of our readers are — like me — huge Lego fans, and of course, we have lots of fans of the Mars Science Laboratory, a.k.a the Curiosity rover. One of our readers, Allen Eyler, just sent...

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You Just Got a Haircut from Asteroid 2012 JU

Universe Today 3 days ago

You Just Got a Haircut from Asteroid 2012 JU

OK, we admit that's a bit of an exaggeration, but an asteroid about the size of a school bus did come fairly close to Earth yesterday! On May 13, Asteroid 2012 JU passed harmlessly between Earth an...

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Psychedelic space station stars and cities | Bad Astronomy

Psychedelic space station stars and cities | Bad Astronomy

The view from the International Space Station is always pretty cool, but when an astronaut points the camera at the Earth's horizon and takes a series of short exposures, adding them together gives...

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A Sword of Stars

Universe Today 3 days ago

A Sword of Stars

Like the blade of a magical weapon from a fantasy tale, the northern edge of spiral galaxy NGC 891 is captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, glowing with the light of billions of stars and interwo...

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Astrophoto: Meteor Fireball Passing through the Milky Way

Universe Today 3 days ago

Astrophoto: Meteor Fireball Passing through the Milky Way

Northern Minnesota is famous for its bountiful lakes, and clear, dark skies. This beautiful astrophoto combines both — and more — as photographer Luke Arens captured a big meteor fireball reflectin...

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Carnival of Space #249

Universe Today 3 days ago

Carnival of Space #249

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Bill Dunford at his Riding With Robots on the High Frontier blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #249. And if you're interested in looking back, her...

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The End Of Envisat

Universe Today 4 days ago

The End Of Envisat

Well, it's official. After ten years of groundbreaking observation of our planet, ESA has declared the end of the Envisat mission after losing contact with the satellite on April 8, 2012. All attem...

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Big Sunspot; Little Chinese Space Station

Universe Today 4 days ago

Big Sunspot; Little Chinese Space Station

Astrophotgrapher extraordinaire Thierry Legault has made a name for himself with his images of spacecraft transiting across the face of the Sun. He has done it again by capturing the first-ever ima...

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A New Angle on Titan

Universe Today 5 days ago

A New Angle on Titan

Here's a great shot of Titan and Saturn acquired by Cassini on May 6, 2012 just after a pass by the haze-covered moon. It's a color-composite made from images taken in Cassini's red, green and blue...

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