AFP – Researchers say they have found about half of the universe’s missing matter hidden in the spaces between billions of galaxies thanks to the Hubble telescope.
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SPACE.com – WASHINGTON- Spurred to action by Congress, NASAis finally moving out on an ambitious mission to send a spacecraft closer tothe sun than any has ever gone before.
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SPACE.com – Notso long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewedwith deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under”L” … for lunatic.
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SPACE.com – WASHINGTON A bill mandating that NASA conduct an additional space shuttle flight todeliver a $1 billion science payload to the International Space Station clearedthe House Science and Technology space and aeronautics subcommittee May 20.
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Reuters – Excited astronomers said on Wednesday they had for the first time caught a supernova on camera just as it was exploding, and they may now learn how to spot others.
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SPACE.com – Whilepeering at her computer screen four months ago, astronomer Alicia Soderbergexpected to see the small glowing smudge of a month-old supernova. But what sheand her colleague saw instead was a strange, extremely bright, five-minuteburst of X-rays.
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AFP – Astronomers on Wednesday said they had witnessed for the first time how a dying star erupted into a supernova, one of the mightiest yet most elusive sights in the Universe.
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AP – In a stroke of cosmic luck, astronomers for the first time witnessed the start of one of the universe’s most fiery events: the end of a star’s life as it exploded into a supernova.
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AFP – A US Navy maritime surveillance jet experienced “intermittent navigational problems” over the weekend and strayed into Venezuelan air space, officials acknowledged Monday.
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SPACE.com – WASHINGTON House lawmakers have introduced legislationauthorizing three additional space shuttle flights before the fleet’s scheduled2010 retirement, including the launch of a science probe removed from themanifest after the 2003 Columbia accident.
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