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September 2017 Science Images
This sequence of color-enhanced images shows a 95-minute time-lapse view of Jupiter as NASA’s Juno spacecraft swoops by the giant planet on September 1st. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill) A...
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Science Images – January 2018
A visitor stops by the LG Electronics booth on January 9, 2018, during the International Consumer Electronics Show to check out the company’s newest smart appliances, home entertainment, and mobile...
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Chinese Space Station Expected To Fall to Earth Within Days
Aerospace experts say they expect the Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, or “Celestial Palace 1” in English, to drop out of orbit and fall to Earth sometime between March 30th and April 2nd....
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More Testing Needed: NASA Delays Launch of Webb Space Telescope
Have you been anxiously waiting to see some of the new and more dazzling views of space that NASA promises will be provided by the new James Webb Space Telescope? Well, sorry to disappoint you, but...
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ESA Mars Orbiter Gets A Software Upgrade
One of the first photos of the surface of Mars taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express on January 14, 2004. It shows a portion of a 1700 km long and 65 km wide swath of...
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Galaxy Megamergers 1.4 – 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang
Two teams of astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), in Chile, to observe dense concentrations of so-called...
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Calculations Show Mercury Has a Thin but Dense Crust
Computer Photomosaic of Mercury’s Southern Hemisphere. The Image Processing Lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this photomosaic after the Mariner 10 spacecraft imaged the region during...
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Galactic Collision that Reshaped the Milky Way
A team of astronomers found evidence of a cataclysmic collision between the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy some 8 to 10 billion years ago. The astronomers refer to this galactic crash as a ‘defining...
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Mars In The News
Two new studies about Mars made news this week. Liquid Water Lake Detected on Mars First, a group of Italian scientists announced that they detected a 20-kilometer-wide lake of liquid water located...
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Astronomers Find and Confirm 44 New Extrasolar Planets
Artist’s rendering of the Kepler space telescope. (NASA) An international team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of 44 new extrasolar planets. The planets were first spotted by the astronomers...
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