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Close Encounters Of Another Kind? Newly Discovered Large Asteroid Puts Spotlight On Wandering Celestial Objects
September 4, 2003 The latest discovery of a large asteroid moving through our Solar System puts a spotlight on the studies of these and other wandering celestial objects by the European Space ... > full story -
European Space Agency Sees Stardust Storms Heading For Solar System
August 20, 2003 Since its launch in 1990, Ulysses has constantly monitored how much stardust enters the Solar System from the interstellar space around it. Using an on-board instrument called DUST, scientists have ... > full story -
Holiday Weather On Mars
August 14, 2003 Over its four-year lifetime, Mars Express will be returning data to refine the latest computer models of the Martian climate. It will be closely watching the clouds, fog, dust devils, and storms, ... > full story -
Sun's Microflares Could Play Macro Role In Heating Corona
July 21, 2003 The sun's big, bright, explosive flares are the attention grabbers, but tiny, more numerous microflares may have nearly as much influence on the solar atmosphere, according to new data from the ... > full story -
Powerful 'Conveyer Belts' Drive Sun's 11-Year Cycle, New Evidence Suggests
June 20, 2003 NASA and university astronomers have found evidence that the 11-year sunspot cycle is driven in part by a giant conveyor belt-like, circulating current within the ... > full story -
Largest Solar Adaptive Optics System Demonstrates Ability To Correct Images Of Sun
June 19, 2003 Impressive, sharp images of the Sun can be produced with an advanced adaptive optical (AO) system that will give new life to existing telescopes and opens the way for a generation of large-aperture ... > full story -
Headless Comets Survive Plunge Through Sun's Atmosphere
June 18, 2003 A run through the jungle is too easy; for the ultimate reality show contest, try a race through the Sun's atmosphere, where two comets recently lost their heads. The tails from a pair of comets ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Simulate Comet X-Ray Emissions In Laboratory
June 6, 2003 Physicists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have produced X-ray emissions in a laboratory setting by recreating the conditions that exist when solar winds collide with gases ... > full story -
Satellite's Lucky Break May Lead To Secret Of Ultimate Explosions
May 29, 2003 A NASA satellite may have uncovered one of the most important clues yet obtained on the mechanism for producing gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe. This was the result of ... > full story -
Solar Flares Postpone SETI@home Re-Observation
March 24, 2003 After one day of re-observing promising radio sources at the Arecibo radio telescope, the SETI@home project has been bumped from the telescope's observing schedule until next Monday, March 24, so ... > full story
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