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Catching Space Weather in the Act
February 17, 2011 Special cameras aboard the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft have snapped the first shots of a complex space environment. Instead of recording light, these two large single-pixel ... > full story -
Herschel Finds Less Dark Matter but More Stars
February 16, 2011 The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has discovered a population of dust-enshrouded galaxies that do not need as much dark matter as previously thought to collect gas and burst into ... > full story -
Stardust-NExT: Heading Into the Bonus Round -- In Space
February 9, 2011 A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round," said Stardust-NExT Project Manager Tim ... > full story -
Stardust NExT Set to Meet Its Second Comet
February 9, 2011 It's been 12 years since Stardust was launched and seven years since it encountered a comet called Wild 2 out beyond Mars. Next Monday the probe will make history again when it meets its second ... > full story -
First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun
February 7, 2011 NASA has released the first complete view of the sun's entire surface and atmosphere. Seeing the whole sun front and back simultaneously will enable significant advances in space weather forecasting ... > full story -
New Images Show Cloud Exploding from Sun Ripples Like Clouds on Earth
February 4, 2011 Physicists studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are similar to those seen in clouds in Earth's ... > full story -
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System
February 2, 2011 Scientists using NASA's Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located approximately ... > full story -
NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six Planet System
February 2, 2011 NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the ... > full story -
NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan for Asteroids and Comets a Family Portrait
February 2, 2011 NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,000 ... > full story -
Cluster Encounters 'Natural Particle Accelerator' Above Earth's Atmosphere: How Northern and Southern Lights Are Generated
February 1, 2011 The European Space Agency's Cluster satellites have flown through a natural particle accelerator just above Earth's atmosphere. The data they collected are unlocking how most of the dramatic displays ... > full story
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