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Crash & Splash: NASA Probes to Dash Toward Moon

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Planet-Forming Disk Discovered Orbiting Binary System

Here is an interesting article on possibly our first discovery of a Planet-Forming Disk Discovered Orbiting Binary System

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Black Hole More Massive Than Expected: Discovery News

We are always learning new and more about our universe. It isn't surprising that things a bigger than we first expected...Check out this article on M87.

Black Hole More Massive Than Expected: Discovery News

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A.J. has sent you a SPACE.com News Story -- Docking Boosts Space Station\'s Population to Full Size of 6

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Docking Boosts Space Station\'s Population to Full Size of 6

A big Congratulations to the Space Crew up there orbiting our little blue planet.

God bless yuz all from down here...

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Hubble Floats Free

What an wonderful example of human ingenuity.

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Hubble Floats Free

via Astronomy Picture of the Day on 5/25/09

Hubble Floats Free
Credit: STS-125 Crew, NASA

Explanation: Why put observatories in space? Most telescopes are on the ground. On the ground, you can deploy a heavier telescope and fix it more easily. The trouble is that Earth-bound telescopes must look through the Earth's atmosphere. First, the Earth's atmosphere blocks out a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing a narrow band of visible light to reach the surface. Telescopes which explore the Universe using light beyond the visible spectrum, such as those onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope need to be carried above the absorbing atmosphere. Second, the Earth's atmosphere blurs the light it lets through. The blurring is caused by varying density and continual motion of air. By orbiting above the Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope, pictured above last week after being captured, refurbished, and released, can get clearer images. In fact, even though HST has a mirror 15 times smaller than large Earth-bound telescopes, it can still resolve finer details. A future large telescope for space, the James Webb Space Telescope is currently planned for launch in 2014.

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A.J. has sent you a SPACE.com News Story -- Nearby Galaxy Mysteriously Missing Parts

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Nearby Galaxy Mysteriously Missing Parts

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