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  Second SpaceX Space Station Resupply Flight Ready to Go

  February 25, 2013 — The second International Space Station Commercial Resupply Services flight by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is set for liftoff at 10:10 a.m. EST on March 1 from Space Launch Complex 40 at ... > full story
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  Sun's Next-Door Twin: Cool Layer in the Atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A

  February 20, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun. The finding is ... > full story
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  Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle Accelerators

  February 19, 2013 — During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is ... > full story
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  International Space Station Plays Host to Innovative Infectious Disease Research

  February 18, 2013 — A microbiologist is using the ISS platform to pursue new research into the effects of microgravity on disease-causing ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees Cosmic 'Flying V' of Merging Galaxies

  February 15, 2013 — The Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of a large "flying V" that is actually two distinct objects -- a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC ... > full story
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  Russian Asteroid Strike: Numerous Injuries, Significant Damage

  February 15, 2013 — A space rock a few metres across exploded in Earth's atmosphere above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia today (Feb. 15, 2013) at about 03:15 GMT. The numerous injuries and significant damage remind us ... > full story
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  NASA Set for New Round of J-2X Testing at Stennis Space Center

  February 12, 2013 — NASA's progress toward a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency's Space Launch System ... > full story
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  NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly, Begins Environmental Testing

  February 10, 2013 — NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next ... > full story
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  NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in Young Stars

  February 7, 2013 — Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. Every 25.34 days, the object, ... > full story
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  Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts

  February 5, 2013 — In the bright, constant sun of the Antarctic summer, a NASA-funded team is launching balloons. There are twenty of these big, white balloons, each of which sets off on a different day for a leisurely ... > full story

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