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Astronomy News and Research - August 2008 Archives
 | Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth's atmosphere and into space. Now, a formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. ...> Full Article |
the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) has revealed its first all-sky map in gamma rays
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Breakthrough helps researchers better understand mysterious dark matter
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 | Another powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope ...> Full Article |
 | When in space, keep an eye on the window. You never know what you might see. ...> Full Article |
 | Assembling the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe ...> Full Article |
 | ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008 ...> Full Article |
Researchers reveal brown dwarfs as third class of celestial bodies after stars and planets
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 | The microscope station on the Phoenix lander has returned the first image of the dust particles that cloak Mars ...> Full Article |
An international team of engineers is to develop mission-critical control software for future European robotic space missions
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 | A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death, and reveals a rich family history ...> Full Article |
 | The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved ...> Full Article |
 | Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from the Agency's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target ...> Full Article |
 | The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275 ...> Full Article |
 | Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off ...> Full Article |
 | Water frost around the spacecraft hints that Martian fall is coming soon. ...> Full Article |
 | In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus. ...> Full Article |
 | Mars' ultra-fine dust plays a critically important role in Mars' environment. ...> Full Article |
 | New analysis makes it possible to 'know our enemy' ...> Full Article |
Psychologists reveal groundbreaking research, technology that will help address psychosocial challenges in next 'Age of Exploration'
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A critical component of NASA's Mars exploration program involves bringing planetary samples back to Earth for in-depth analysis
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 | The Cassini spacecraft has begun sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed ...> Full Article |
 | In commemoration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100 000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal ...> Full Article |
 | Research on 'perchlorate' salts is still underway. ...> Full Article |
 | Explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon powers the Northern Lights. ...> Full Article |
 | New study using recent data from 300 exoplanets turns prevailing theory of solar system formation on its head ...> Full Article |
 | The Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion year-old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. One of the results of these discoveries led astronomers to understand more about the life and evolution of cannibal galaxies. ...> Full Article |
 | Findings suggest GLAST mission could detect evidence of dark matter particles ...> Full Article |
 | A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn ...> Full Article |
 | Science process requires more data, more analysis, more lab work and peer review ...> Full Article |
 | Found image of a strange, gaseous object with a hole in the center ...> Full Article |
 | Spacecraft to visually track asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy ...> Full Article |
 | A patch of the hard layer under Phoenix began visibly changing 20 days after landing ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers describe formation of first stars ...> Full Article |
 | Camera shows large hydrocarbon lake is truly wet ...> Full Article |
 | Clouds of Venus could support microbial life �" which could be transported to Earth ...> Full Article |
 | VLTI observes for the first time how dust forms around an erupting star ...> Full Article |
 | GOCE, the first of a series of Earth Explorer satellites to be launched into orbit, has taken off aboard an Antonov-124 cargo aircraft for its flight to the Arkhangelsk Airport in Russia, en route to Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km north of Moscow. ...> Full Article |
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Ancient DNA from rare fossil reveals that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly
'Anaconda' meets 'Jurassic Park': Study shows ancient snakes ate dinosaur babies
Scientists locate apparent hydrothermal vents off Antarctica
Artificial bee silk a big step closer to reality
Predicting the fate of stem cells
Artificial foot recycles energy for easier walking
New fiber nanogenerators could lead to electric clothing
What drives our genes? Researchers map the first complete human epigenome
Juggling enhances connections in the brain
Tracking down the human 'odorprint'
Fill 'er up - with algae
Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
Researchers help identify cows that gain more while eating less
Lava likely made river-like channel on Mars
Biggest, deepest crater exposes hidden, ancient moon
Phobos flyby success
The cosmic bat
First signal received by future telescope
NASA's Fermi probes 'dragons' of the gamma-ray sky
Astronomically large lenses measure the age and size of the universe
First of missing primitive stars discovered
Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos
First measurement of the age of cometary material
Light, wind and fire
Torn apart by its own tides, massive planet is on a 'death march'