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  Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test

  October 23, 2012 — NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Oct. 19 at the company's West Texas launch site in Van Horn, firing its pusher-escape motor and ... > full story
• Cosmology
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  The Generation X Report: How Many Gen Xers Know Their Cosmic Address?

  October 23, 2012 — Less than half of Generation X adults can identify our home in the universe, a spiral galaxy, according to a new ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Milky Way's Black Hole Getting Ready for Snack

  October 22, 2012 — Get ready for a fascinating eating experience in the center of our galaxy. The event involves a black hole that may devour much of an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2. A supercomputer ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Split-Personality Elliptical Galaxy Holds a Hidden Spiral

  October 22, 2012 — Most big galaxies fit into one of two camps: pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxies and blobby elliptical galaxies. Spirals like the Milky Way are hip and happening places, with plenty of gas and dust to ... > full story
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  Water Could Flow on Mars, Model Suggests; Scientists Look at Melting and Evaporation of Frozen Brines

  October 22, 2012 — Researchers have created a model that might explain how water could produce the flow patterns seen by a spacecraft orbiting ... > full story
• Moon
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  Potential Lunar and Martian Bases

  October 22, 2012 — Researchers in the UK have presented plans for an extraplanetary laboratory that will determine whether it will be possible to establish a base on the Moon, or potentially ... > full story
• Astrophysics
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  Astronomers Study 2-Million-Light-Year 'Extragalactic Afterburner'

  October 22, 2012 — Blasting over two million lights years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, except in this case ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Astronomers Uncover a Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution

  October 19, 2012 — A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Hubble Sees Galaxy in a Spin

  October 19, 2012 — NGC 3344 is a glorious spiral galaxy around half the size of the Milky Way, which lies 25 million light-years distant. We are fortunate enough to see NGC 3344 face-on, allowing us to study its ... > full story
• Mars
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  Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover

  October 19, 2012 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year ... > full story

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