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The search begins...Are we alone? For centuries, human beings have pondered this question.Artist's concept of an extrasolar planetary system. Medieval scholars speculated that other worlds must exist and that some would harbor other forms of life. In our time, advances in science and technology have brought us to the threshold of finding an answer to this timeless question. The recent discovery

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In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA's Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule filled with particles of the Sun that may ultimately tell us more about the genesis of our solar system. "The Genesis mission -- to capture a piece of the Sun and return it to Earth -- is truly in the NASA spirit: a bold, inspiring mission

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Future Mission Concepts May Become Reality 08.12.04 NASA is considering nine astrophysics experiments that could pave the way toward future space missions designed to reveal the nature of the universe and how life was formed. The candidates are mission hopefuls for becoming part of NASA's Astronomical Search for Origins Program. Operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the

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nasa withe hubble problems went to help olympic jesus help space world

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sprit on the columbia elvation the pictur taken from panaromica camera larger image

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2004 August 18 Lightning on Earth Credit & Copyright: Elizabeth Warner (U. Maryland) Index From: http://http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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CASSINI PHOTO RELEASE Posted: August 16, 2004 With eyes sharper than any that have peered at Saturn before, the Cassini spacecraft has uncovered two moons, which may be the smallest bodies so far seen around the ringed planet. This image shows the tiny 'worldlet,' temporarily dubbed S/2004 S1, as it makes its way around the planet. A white box frames the moon's location in the image. Credit:

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EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY NEWS RELEASE Posted: August 17, 2004 Observations by an international team of astronomers with the UVES spectrometer on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory have thrown new light on the earliest epoch of the Milky Way galaxy. This ESO image shows the globular cluster NGC 6397, located at a distance of approx. 7,200 light-years in the southern

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New moons for Saturn Cassini scientists discover the first of what they expect to be many new moons.Francis ReddyAugust 16, 2004The Cassini spacecraft has discovered a pair of 2-mile-wide moons, mission scientists announced today. The satellites, provisionally named S/2004 S1 and S/2004 S2, are the smallest bodies so far seen around the ringed planet. The finds raise Saturn's known number of

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The Canadian Arrow astronauts -- Back row (from left): Larry Clark, Jason Dyer and Yaroslav "Yarko" Pustovyi. Front row (from left): Capt. David Ballinger (ret), Terry Wong and Capt. Ted Gow. Credit: Canadian Arrow. Clilk to larger image

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in "Endurance Crater" opportunity As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity creeps farther into "Endurance Crater," the dune field on the crater floor appears even more dramatic. This false-color image taken by the rover's panoramic camera shows that the dune crests have accumulated more dust than the flanks of the dunes and the flat surfaces between them. Also evident is a "blue" tint on the

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NASA researchers have teamed up with a pair of Silicon Valley firms to build a supercomputer that ranks alongside the world's largest Linux-based systems. When complete, the Space Exploration Simulator supercomputer will provide 10 times the data-crunching power of NASA's current supercomputer capacity. "Our space scientists in the past were starved for [computer] cycles," said Walter Brooks,

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One of the four astronomical instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down earlier this week and engineers are trying to pin down the problem. The other three instruments continue to operate normally. The instrument, called the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), does not make the classic pictures that Hubble is famous for, but instead splits light into its constituent colors. It

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the movie give me another life in astronomy the contact a ontact whit a smar-life out of earth very nice subject the space car to go to vega Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) in New Mexico if you know the life out of earth dont say because after tht your alone

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TORONTO, Canada -- A second team of rocketeers competing for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a contest for privately funded suborbital space flight, has officially announced the first launch date for its manned rocket. The da Vinci Project, led by Brian Feeney of Toronto, Ontario, said Thursday the group plans to loft its Wild Fire Mark VI spacecraft on Oct. 2, just days after the planned launch

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HOUSTON (AP) _ The University of Texas and Texas A&M University are planning to construct what they call the world's largest telescope with the help of a Houston businessman's $1.25 million gift. Scientists say that the proposed $400 million Giant Magellan Telescope would collect 70 times more light than NASA's successful Hubble Space Telescope and could produce images that are 10 times sharper.

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.By SPACE.com Staffposted: 05 August 200402:28 pm ET Like Voyager before it, the Cassini spacecraft has detected lighting at Saturn, but it doesn't sound the same and scientists hope the episodic strikes will teach them something. The NASA probe recorded the electrical activity on a radio receiver. "We are detecting the same crackle and pop one hears when listening to an AM radio broadcast during

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A Russian rocket successfully launched the largest telecommunications satellite ever to serve Spanish-speaking customers in Latin America - as well as North American and European markets - into space during a Tuesday evening flight. Sitting atop a Proton-M launch vehicle, the Amazonas satellite rocketed away from its staging grounds at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. "The Amazonas satellite

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Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful events in the universe, temporary outshining several galaxies and likely signaling the birth of a black hole. But astronomers have been puzzled by one burst, noted in 1998, that was comparatively dim. Was the weakling a loner, a total "freak" as one astronomer termed it? Or have others like it simply gone undetected. The answer is written in this week's

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In a prelude of more problems that are likely to arise, both of NASA's Mars rovers experienced glitches this week as they plow through unknown engineering territory, operating well beyond what the mission blueprints called for. The twins are working at reduced capacity while project managers try to figure out what's wrong. Both rovers had 90-day primary missions and have more than doubled that

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A dark spot marks Saturn's south pole in this new image from the Cassini spacecraft. It was taken July 13 and released yesterday. Around the polar region, concentric rings of clouds can be seen. To the north, wavy patterns are evident, resulting from the atmosphere moving with different speeds at different latitudes. Other observations have revealed that Saturn's winds change dramatically over

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Alan Buis 818/653-8339 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Lynn Chandler 301/286-2806Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Gretchen Cook-Anderson 202/358-0836Headquarters, Washington NEWS RELEASE: 2004-192 August 4, 2004 Activation of the Aura spacecraft, launched July 15, is continuing, with the mission going very well so far. Just over an hour after launch, the spacecraft

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The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) flawlessly completed a spacewalk Tuesday morning, preparing their orbital home for a new cargo ship and retrieving experiments attached to its hull. ISS Expedition 9 commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer Michael Fincke are safely back inside the space station after a 4.5-hour spacewalk that found them consistently ahead of

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Flip a coin. Heads, Earth is a common sort of planet. Tails, and ours is as unusual as a coin landing on edge. That's about the state of knowledge for scientists who ponder the question of our planet's rarity. But lack of knowledge is a cornerstone of speculation, and several scientific papers and books have conjectured everything from our solar system being unique to it being run-of-the-mill.

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a stellar explosion in which a star may be completely disrupted, leaving a compact stellar remnant such as a neutron star or black hole. At maximum light, the supernova can have luminosity about 108 or 109 times that of the Sun. The luminosity decays after the initial outburst, in certain classes of supernova, the decline being exponential with a half-life of about 80 days. In massive stars, the

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DENVER, COLORADO – Those twin robots hard at work on Mars have transmitted teasing views that reinforce the prospect that microbial life may exist on the red planet. Results from NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers are being looked over by a legion of planetary experts, including a scientist who remains steadfast that his experiment in 1976 proved the presence of active microbial life in the

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Despite a 24-hour delay, a NASA spacecraft bound for Mercury was successfully launched early Tuesday, the first step in a seven-year journey to the small planet. A Boeing-built Delta 2 rocket shot the spacecraft MESSENGER off planet at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT (0615:56 GMT) on a pillar of flame above its launch pad at NASA’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The on-time space shot easily made its 12-

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This self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity comes courtesy of the Sun and the rover's front hazard-avoidance camera. The dramatic snapshot of Opportunity's shadow was taken as the rover continues to move farther into "Endurance Crater." The image was taken on July 26, 2004, the date when the rover fully doubled its primary mission.

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from nasa newsletter Alan Buis (818) 354-5011Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Gretchen Cook-Anderson (202) 358-0836NASA Headquarters, Washington Sandy Miller Hays (301) 504-1638USDA Agricultural Research Service, Washington News Release: 2004-188 August 2, 2004 Scientists' Showdown With Soil Moisture At The O.K. Corral Tombstone, Ariz., is a dusty place known for Wyatt Earp's famous

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A bright Perseid streaks just below the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, during the 2002 shower. Joe Orman took this 5-minute exposure through a 40-millimeter lens at f/2.8 on Ektachrome P1600 slide film The source of the Perseid shower is comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the Sun in a long, roughly 130-year ellipse. The comet sheds bits of its material each time it returns near the Sun. This debris

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A bright Perseid flashed across the horns of Taurus before dawn on August 13, 2002, while Vincent Varnas was photographing from Stevenson, Washington. He used a 35-mm f/2 lens and Fujicolor Press 1600 film for this lucky 20-second exposure, one of many he took during 2½ hours of sky shooting. To the meteor’s lower left is Mars; to its right are Aldebaran and the Hyades, with the Pleiades above.

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That double-header of a rover mission to Mars -- Spirit and Opportunity -- are both moving toward fresh rounds of science-gathering and could survive far longer than once expected. Opportunity at Meridiani Planum, has received the go-ahead to "deep dive" into a large impact crater dubbed "Endurance

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When Venus crossed the Sun June 8, showing up as a clear black dot to the delight of millions of skywatchers around the world, astronomers noted something less obvious: The amount of sunlight reaching Earth dipped by 0.1 percent for a few hours. The result was not a surprise, but since Venus hadn't transited the Sun in more than a century, the effect had never been measured. The drop in sunlight

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AACI This club was established for all Iranian Amateur astronomers to disccuss about all subjects in astronomy and astronomy news . All members can send their astronomy news to others by sending to this E-Mail address : aaci@yahoogroups.com All of Iran is my home. Clear skies you can join here

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........................The Atom..................{part one} Most of us are familiar with the fact that any matter whether a liquid, or a solid, or a gas, is made up f molecules. A molecule is the smallest particle that a compound can be reduced to before it breaks down into its element. For example, if we took a grain of table salt and kept breaking it in half until it got as small as it

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As scenes of rioting robots are in the trailer, it is probably not giving away too much to say that there are elements of I, ROBOT that resemble another 20th Century Fox science-fiction film of long ago, namely CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. Now, robots and apes are not all that similar, but both movies concern near-future societies in which a non-human slave force shows signs of rebelling

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Future travelers will be putting down their luggage in far-flung places, underwater, in the air and around the planet. They'll get amazing views from bizarre living quarters that build on "outrageously successful" billion-dollar projects on Earth, and they'll take adventures that have long been the province of science fiction. That’s the vacationing landscape of the 21st Century envisioned by

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By: Brian BergerSpace News Staff Writer Thirty-five years after the world watched three Americans leave Earth on a mission to be the first to land on the moon, the United States is plotting a return to the lunar landscape. But while the destination is the same, the motives have changed. Then the goal was to prove to a divided world simply that it could be done and done best by a free society. Now

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NASA engineers are hard at work on a lunar spacecraft expected to be the first in a wave of robotic probes that will pave the way for future human missions. The spacecraft, called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), is the first mission out of the gate under NASA’s space vision of sending more robot and human explorers beyond Earth orbit. “This mission is the first concrete step in laying the

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Meteoroids in space since the Civil War will spice up this summer's Perseid meteor shower The annual Perseid meteor shower is coming, and forecasters say it could be unusually good. The shower begins, gently, in mid-July when Earth enters the outskirts of a cloud of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle. Dust-sized meteoroids hitting the atmosphere will streak across the night sky, at first only a

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Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken on July 3, 2004, one day after Cassini's first flyby of that moon. Titan has a dense atmosphere composed primarily of nitrogen with a few percent methane. The atmosphere can undergo photochemical processes to form hazesImages like this one reveal some of the key

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As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed "Endurance." On the other side of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward. This unusual approach to driving is part of a creative plan to accommodate Spirit's aging front wheel.Spirit, with an

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A rock outcrop with a view of the surrounding landscape beckons NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on sol 203 (July 29, 2004) of its journey of exploration on the red planet. This view is a mosaic of images taken by the rover's navigation camera at a position labeled as Site 80, near the top of the "West Spur" portion of the "Columbia Hills." Directly ahead are rock outcrops that scientists

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One of the pleasures of stargazing is noticing and enjoying the various colors that stars display in dark skies. These hues offer direct visual evidence of how stellar temperatures vary. A good many of the summer luminaries – such as brilliant Vega which stands nearly overhead during the late-evening hours – are bluish-white, but we can easily find other, contrasting colors there as well. Look at

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Black holes suffer a bad rap. Indicted by the press as gravity monsters, labeled highly secretive by astronomers, and long considered in theoretical circles as mere endpoints of cosmic evolution, these unseen objects are depicted as mysterious drains of destruction and death.So it may seem odd to reconsider them as indispensable forces of creation.Yet this is the bright new picture of black holes

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