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Pentagon eyes crash analysis from satellitesThe United States Air Force has started upgrading its ability to predict possible collisions between satellites in space.
iol.co.za Wednesday, November 04, 2009Lunar Lander prize scooped by California firmMasten Space Systems has designed a craft capable of a lunar landing - and secured a $1-million prize in the process.
iol.co.za Wednesday, November 04, 2009University of Utah celebrates telescope's 'first light'(University of Utah) The
university of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception on the Salt Lake City campus. The new Willard L. Eccles Observatory's 32-inch reflecting telescope took its first pictures the night of Oct. 15 from the 9,600-foot level on Frisco Peak in southern Utah.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009Follow Rosetta's final Earth boost(European Space Agency) ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on Nov. 13 to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's European Space Operations Center will host a media briefing on that day.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009Water Geysers on Saturn Moon Take Center StageNew striking photos of water-vapor geysers shooting off of Saturn's moon Enceladus were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around the planet.
SPACE.com Wednesday, November 04, 2009Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars(Texas A&M University) Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and out-of-this-world dust storms, and Istvan Szunyogh, a Texas A&M professor of atmospheric sciences, has been awarded a NASA grant to analyze and forecast Martian weather.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009Identity of Puzzling Star RevealedSpectrum of supernova remnant explained by low magnetic field, carbon atmosphere.
SPACE.com Wednesday, November 04, 2009Will Our Universe Collide With a Neighboring One?Relaxing on an idyllic beach on Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean, Anthony Aguirre vividly describes the worst natural disaster he can imagine. It is, in fact, probably the worst natural disaster that anyone could imagine. An asteroid impact would be small potatoes compared with this kind of event: a catastrophic encounter with an entire other universe. As an alien cosmos came crashing into ours, its outer boundary would look like a wall racing forward at nearly the speed of light; behind that wall would lie a set of physical laws totally different from ours that would wreck everything they touched in our universe. "If we could see things in ultraslow motion, we'd see a big mirror in the sky rushing toward us because light would be reflected by the wall," says Aguirre, a youthful physicist at the
university of California at Santa Cruz. "After that we wouldn't see anything-because we'd all be dead."
Discover Magazine Wednesday, November 04, 2009Elevator to space? They're really tryingScientists are working on bringing the idea of a space elevator out of the realm of science fiction and into reality.
iol.co.za Wednesday, November 04, 2009Box office boost shows 3D is here to stayLos Angeles (AFP) Nov 3, 2009 - Once regarded as a quirky fad for nerds wearing cardboard spectacles, 3D films are enjoying a mainstream renaissance and this time the medium is here to stay, entertainment industry experts say.
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