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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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