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Shuttle vs. Soyuz

[/caption] Here's an interesting illustration showing the size comparison of a Space Shuttle to a Soyuz vehicle, shared on Twitter…

13 years ago

Watch Mercury Get Smacked By CMEs

The bright object in the center of this video sequence is the planet Mercury, seen by NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft as…

13 years ago

NASA Jets Buzz The Capitol

[/caption] Earlier today, Thursday, April 5,  two NASA T-38 jets passed over the Washington, DC metropolitan area, during planned training…

13 years ago

Dark Figures Do An Eerie Dance On The Sun

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this video on March 27 - 28 of two large areas of "dark" plasma on…

13 years ago

Hubble Gets Best Look Yet At Messier 9

[/caption] First discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, the globular cluster Messier 9 is a vast swarm of ancient stars…

13 years ago

TV Viewing Alert: NASA’s Unexplained Files

Countless mysterious objects have been caught by NASA's cameras, and usually the events can be explained logically. The Science Channel…

13 years ago

Psychedelics in the Sky: NASA Launches 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes

[/caption] After several days of delays due to weather and technical issues, NASA has now successfully launched five suborbital sounding…

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Robotics Refueling Research Scores Huge Leap at Space Station

[/caption] A combined team of American and Canadian engineers has taken a major first step forward by successfully applying new,…

13 years ago

Two Moons In Passing

[/caption] Saturn’s moon Tethys passes in front of its slightly larger sister Dione in this animation made from 25 raw images…

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