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Spacewalkers Install Massive Cooling Tank on Space StationSpacewalkers installed a new ammonia coolant tank on the International Space Station Thursday.
SPACE.com Friday, September 04, 2009Are Sunspots DisappearingHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 04, 2009 - The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go by without even a single tiny sunspot. The quiet has dragged out for more than two years, prompting some observers to wonder, are sunspots disappearing?
SpaceDaily Friday, September 04, 2009NASA monitors space junk ahead of spacewalkWashington (AFP) Sept 3, 2009 - A large piece of space debris drifted toward the International Space Station Thursday, but NASA said it would not affect the second of three spacewalks outside the orbiter.
SpaceDaily Friday, September 04, 2009From earths to moons -- search for life elsewhere expandsParis (AFP) Sept 3, 2009 - A powerful orbital telescope launched in March with a mission to look for habitable counterparts to Earth should also be able to detect small moons that could nurture life, scientists said Thursday.
SpaceDaily Friday, September 04, 2009XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stoneThis is an illustration of the white dwarf and its companion HD49798. If it was possible to look at the system up-close, it would look something like this.
Topix.net Friday, September 04, 2009NASA: Are Sunspots Disappearing?September 3, 2009: The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.
Topix.net Friday, September 04, 2009Astronauts install ammonia tank on ISS during spacewalk - SummaryWashington - Two astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery completed a more than 6-hour-long spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, installing a new ammonia tank used in the cooling system, NASA said. US astronaut John Dan...
Earth Times Friday, September 04, 2009Climate will cost much more than UN thinksAdapting to climate change will cost at least two to three times more than claimed by the UN climate change convention, says a new study
Newscientist.com Friday, September 04, 2009Giant crystals and spherical flames: science in microgravityThe International Space Station may still be under construction, but microgravity research has been under way for decades. We round up some of the coolest experiments so far
Newscientist.com Friday, September 04, 2009No strain for Andromeda: Galaxy is cosmic cannibalThis undated artist's rendering provided by the University of Cambridge, England, shows the spiral galaxy of Andromeda, center right, over a period of about three billion years as repeated, but modified views of the dwarf galaxy Triangulum, move away from it, clockwise towards Earth, then back towards it, where Triangulum will be ultimately ...
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