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  Star On A Hubble Diet

  December 12, 2006 — High-resolution observations from Hubble have shed light on the real mass of a star previously believed to be amongst the heaviest known in our Milky Way. Originally, the mass of the star was thought ... > full story
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  Researchers Identify Driver For Near-Earth Space Weather

  December 12, 2006 — New findings indicate that the aurora and other near-Earth space weather are driven by the rate at which the Earth's and sun's magnetic fields connect, or merge, and not by the solar wind's electric ... > full story
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  New Instrumentation Helps Scientists Better Predict Space Weather

  December 12, 2006 — New instrumentation and observing techniques, being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are helping scientists better understand and predict space ... > full story
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  Magnetic Whirlpools Feed Earth's Magnetosphere

  December 7, 2006 — Giant whirlpools of electrically charged gas, some 40,000 kilometres across, have been witnessed above the Earth by a team of European and American scientists. Using data from ESA's Cluster quartet ... > full story
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  Ulysses Starts New Journey Around The Sun's Poles

  November 20, 2006 — Sixteen years after its launch on Oct. 6, 1990, the Ulysses spacecraft has begun its third "solar polar orbit" -- a journey around the poles of the sun. The mission, a joint NASA-European Space ... > full story
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  Ulysses Embarks On Third Set Of Polar Passes

  November 17, 2006 — The joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission has reached another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun's south pole. Launched in 1990, the ... > full story
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  Rare Transit Of Mercury

  November 4, 2006 — When Mercury goes in front of the sun on Wednesday, Nov. 8, a rare event, scientists from Williams College and the University of Arizona will be observing it from vantage points on earthbound ... > full story
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  First Sunrise On Solar Satellite's Instruments

  October 31, 2006 — The Hinode (formerly Solar-B) satellite, a joint Japan/NASA/PPARC mission launched on 22nd September 2006, has reported its first observations of the Sun with its suite of scientific instruments. The ... > full story
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  Solar-Studying Spacecraft Successfully Launched

  October 26, 2006 — NASA's STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft -- en route as the first mission to capture the sun in 3-D -- successfully launched Oct. 25 aboard a single Delta II vehicle from ... > full story
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  Space Radiation Threats To Astronauts Addressed In Federal Research Study

  October 25, 2006 — A better understanding of solar storms and how best to protect astronauts from space radiation is needed as NASA pushes toward manned missions to the moon and Mars in the coming decades, according to ... > full story

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