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Mars rover Curiosity and January's powerful solar storm

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Update on a space traveler! In late January 2012, an intense solar storm made a lot of news, but it also provided scientists an opportunity to study the dangers facing astronauts on long-term spaceflights. The storm hit the new Mars rover Curiosity, currently en route to Mars, and the rover took data on the storm, [...]

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Buckyball Solids Found in Space

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After finding gaseous clouds of buckyballs in space last year, astronomers have now discovered the carbon balls in a solid form, around a pair of stars some 6,500 light-years from Earth. Buckyballs are microscopic spheres, where 60 carbon atoms are arranged — with alternating patterns of hexagons and pentagons — into a football-like pattern. The [...]

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Will The World Really Come To An End In 2012? Either Way, It May Make Sense To Be Prepared

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Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probably heard about the 2012 doomsday prophecy. Ironically if you do believe it, you might choose to hide under a rock come December 21, 2012. Rather on the news, television, Internet or people chatting about it at their work, you've likely heard about this prophecy. There are [...]

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Polar Shift 2012 – Are You Ready For the Doomsday?

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There has been a lot of buzz going on and about the dreaded year 2012. This started to happen when people started discovering about the Mayan prophecy. They even made a movie about this year when the earth will get destroyed. Have you watched 2012? The movie where John Cusack starred in and the story [...]

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Geminid meteor shower captured in dramatic video

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People wanting to see the Geminid meteor shower have been flocking to Joshua Tree and the Mojave Desert in recent days. And they say it's been quite a show. NASA has billed the Germinid as "the final major meteor shower of the year," saying it will be most visible Tuesday and Wednesday. The Geminids draw [...]

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This week's new film events

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Projection mapping? Granimator? Holotronica? Dogboarding? The digital moving image festival presents yet another lineup of next-level music videos, graphics, animation and artwork, augmented by dauntingly up-to-date terminology. Some of it is awesomely futuristic, but much is actually fluffy and friendly – especially the new family oriented Sprites strand, and the fantastically silly Dogboarding. Specialities include [...]

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NASA: 'The world is not about to end. No, really'

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Don't worry, this flaming tongue of hellfire will get nowhere near you or your loved ones. We promise. Really. (Credit:NASA video. Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET) We're getting so many reassurances from NASA these days that the world is not about to be destroyed by some space-borne phenomenon that I'm starting to wonder if there's something [...]

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Polar Shift 2012 – NASA Information

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When looking into the heavenly skies and wondering about the impending doomsday scenarios predicted for 2012, it is easy to believe that NASA is the trusted source for information. The fact is that when people look into the theories of polar shift 2012, NASA may not be as reputable of a source as you may [...]

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Open University's record iTunes U downloads

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3 October 2011 Last updated at 12:42 ET Share this page By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Mobile devices are driving a surge in downloading lectures from universities The Open University has become a global leader in the number of downloads on the iTunes U service, which allows students to download free video and [...]

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Space Junk Will Fall To Earth This Week : The Two-Way : NPR

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It looks like a giant piece of biscotti covered with gold foil and pipe cleaners. But it's really a decommissioned weather satellite the size of a bus that NASA says will probably fall to Earth by Friday, oh, give or take a day. Most of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (or UARS) will burn up [...]

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NASA's Space Junk to Hit Earth: When and Where Will the UARS Satellite Land?

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Marisa Krystian | Sep 12, 2011 | 1min:31sec A defunct 7-ton research satellite is falling to Earth, due to re-enter the atmosphere soon, with the potential to rain debris onto the earth's surface. According to NASA, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to come down to earth by late September, early October. NASA says [...]