Solar System

Cities at Night Panorama of Millions of US East Coast Earthlings

[/caption] Do you live here? Tens of millions of Earthlings live and work in the bustling and seemingly intertwined American…

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Help Support a ‘New Horizons’ U.S. Postage Stamp!

[/caption]Today the New Horizons mission team, along with Principal Investigator Alan Stern have unveiled their proposal for a U.S Postage…

13 years ago

IBEX Captures ‘Alien’ Material From Beyond Our Solar System

[/caption] If we could board the starship Enterprise-D and were able to look through Giordi LaForge's visor we might be…

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Night Sky Guide: February 2012

Special thanks to Ninian Boyle astronomyknowhow.com for information in parts of this guide This month, the Solar System gives us…

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Amazing Panorama of Western Europe at Night from Space Station

[/caption] An amazing panorama revealing Western Europe’s ‘Cities at Night’ with hardware from the stations robotic 'hand' and solar arrays…

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Help Astronomers Measure the Solar System!

[/caption] As the bright Mars-crossing asteroid 433 Eros makes its closest approach to Earth since 1975, astronomers around the globe…

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Asteroid To Make Closest Approach Since 1975

[/caption] On Tuesday, January 31, asteroid 433 Eros will come closer to Earth than it has in 37 years, traveling…

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Toronto Teens Launch “Lego Man in Space”

[/caption] Updated:Jan. 30 Two teens from Toronto,Canada have launched “Lego Man in Space” using a helium filled weather balloon and…

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“Bad Boy” Sunspot Unleashes Powerful X-Class Flare

The active region on the Sun that created all the hubbub and aurorae earlier this week put out one last…

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