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The first photos of planets outside our Solar System have been taken by two teams of astronomers who published them on Thursday in the online edition of the journal Science. An infrared photo of a planet orbiting a star 25 light-years away was among them. The astronomers believe the planet is the coolest and also the lowest-mass object outside our Solar System. The astronomers took pictures of four planets outside our Solar System. Three of those planets are orbiting the same star, while the fourth is orbiting a different one. The four planets are gaseous and aren’t Earth-resembling at...
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STS-126 has arrived at the International Space Station.
Shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson was at the controls of space shuttle Endeavour
docking to the station's Harmony Node at 5:01 p.m. EST.
The hatches between the International Space Station and
space shuttle Endeavour were opened and Expedition 18 welcomed the STS-126 crew
members inside the Harmony Node at 7:16 p.m. EST on Sunday.
Sandra Magnus swapped Soyuz seatliners with station astronaut Greg Chamitoff at
9:50 p.m. replacing him as Expedition 18 Flight Engineer. Chamitoff is now an
STS-126 mission specialist and will...
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The space shuttle Endeavour is almost ready to dock with the International Space Station. There were some concerns about the damage inflicted on its heat shields at the time of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center. The seven members of shuttle Endeavour’s crew, Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Eric Boe and mission specialists Don Pettit, Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Shane Kimbrough and Sandra Magnus, were awakened at 9:25 a.m. EST for rendezvous and docking day. The wakeup music was “Start Me Up” by the Rolling Stones. The seven members of the crew carefully inspected all...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture images of a planet that orbits a star. Pictures of Fomalhaut b oribiting the southern star called Fomalhaut were presented in the November 14 issue of Science magazine. According to NASA, the planet holds less than three times Jupiter’s mass and the star belongs to the Piscis Australis constellation, which is also known as the Southern Fish. The observation process began back in the early 1980s, when the agency’s Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that dust was surrounding the star. The first resolved visible-light image of the area was...
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NASA reported another successful docking with the International Space Station, on the fourth space shuttle mission of the year. Endeavour launched on Friday, November 14, at 7:55 p.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and arrived at the International Space Station 2 days later. The 15-day mission is of extreme importance for NASA, as it carries the necessary equipment to expand ISS’s capacity from a three-bedroom one bed-room residence to a five-bedroom two-bath residence for six astronauts. Endeavour arrived at the ISS with a payload of equipment and supplies, as well as a new...
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The US
space agency NASa announced the discovery of the most recent supernova in our
galaxy. The...
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furthest galaxy in just one second....
A team of fertility researchers from Australia and Greece has
discovered a way of testing IVF...
After a journey that took more
than 10 months to complete, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander prepares to...
The crew of STS-124 participated Friday in a launch dress
rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space...
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates said that the long-awaited Worldwide Telescope will be launched...
Archaeological scientists investigating the sites at Monte
Verde in southern Chile confirmed that...
An
international scientific team announced Wednesday they had finally decoded the
genetic...
California has approved funding worth $271 million in total to create twelve stem cell research...
History met history earlier this
week, when John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the...
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