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NASA To Shut Largest Library, "Toss Away" Books? What Space Agency's Head Said
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has hit out at the New York Times (NYT) over its report that the space agency's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center will be permanently closing, and books will be tossed away.
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Hubble Space Telescope Fixed After Month of No Astronomical Viewing
The Hubble Space Telescope should be back in action soon, following a tricky, remote repair job by NASA.
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NASA Names New Gamma-Ray Constellations After Godzilla, Hulk
Fermi has mapped about 3,000 gamma-ray sources - 10 times the number known before its launch and comparable to the number of bright stars in the traditional constellations.
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Closing In On Launch: NASA's Gold-Mirrored, $8 Billion Webb Space Telescope
The world's most expensive telescope is parked for the moment in Greenbelt, Maryland, shrouded in a protective tent at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In just two years, this long-delayed, $8 billion, cosmos-penetrating instrument is supposed to be nearly a million miles from Earth.
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There's a New Earth-Size Planet in the Neighborhood (Galactically Speaking)
The yeoman work of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revealed our Milky Way galaxy to be lousy with planets - surely tens of billions of them, if you extrapolate from what Kepler has detected so far in a small patch of the sky.
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Comet Lovejoy Spews Sugar and Booze, Study Finds
For the first time ever, scientists have detected ethyl alcohol - the kind that makes booze - in emissions from a comet. Comet Lovejoy, it turns out, is quite aptly named: The ball of ice and dust, which releases the equivalent of about 500 bottles of wine each second during its peak activity, also emits a type of sugar.
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Jupiter Can Help Decode Earth's Weather System Better
Learning more about Jupiter and its Great Red Spot could help scientists understand the Earth's weather system better, says a NASA expert.
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Twitter is Excited About #LeapSecond. What About You?
If you've been complaining that the 24 hours in a day are not enough, today is your gift. You may not get an entire hour extra but the usual 86,400 seconds in the day will be increased by one since this year, June 30 has a leap second.
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Hubble, the Telescope That Revolutionized Our View of Space
Hubble, the first telescope to revolutionize modern astronomy and change our view of the universe by offering glimpses of distant galaxies, marks its 25th year in space this week.
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NASA To Shut Largest Library, "Toss Away" Books? What Space Agency's Head Said
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has hit out at the New York Times (NYT) over its report that the space agency's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center will be permanently closing, and books will be tossed away.
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Hubble Space Telescope Fixed After Month of No Astronomical Viewing
The Hubble Space Telescope should be back in action soon, following a tricky, remote repair job by NASA.
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NASA Names New Gamma-Ray Constellations After Godzilla, Hulk
Fermi has mapped about 3,000 gamma-ray sources - 10 times the number known before its launch and comparable to the number of bright stars in the traditional constellations.
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Closing In On Launch: NASA's Gold-Mirrored, $8 Billion Webb Space Telescope
The world's most expensive telescope is parked for the moment in Greenbelt, Maryland, shrouded in a protective tent at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In just two years, this long-delayed, $8 billion, cosmos-penetrating instrument is supposed to be nearly a million miles from Earth.
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There's a New Earth-Size Planet in the Neighborhood (Galactically Speaking)
The yeoman work of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revealed our Milky Way galaxy to be lousy with planets - surely tens of billions of them, if you extrapolate from what Kepler has detected so far in a small patch of the sky.
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Comet Lovejoy Spews Sugar and Booze, Study Finds
For the first time ever, scientists have detected ethyl alcohol - the kind that makes booze - in emissions from a comet. Comet Lovejoy, it turns out, is quite aptly named: The ball of ice and dust, which releases the equivalent of about 500 bottles of wine each second during its peak activity, also emits a type of sugar.
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Jupiter Can Help Decode Earth's Weather System Better
Learning more about Jupiter and its Great Red Spot could help scientists understand the Earth's weather system better, says a NASA expert.
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Twitter is Excited About #LeapSecond. What About You?
If you've been complaining that the 24 hours in a day are not enough, today is your gift. You may not get an entire hour extra but the usual 86,400 seconds in the day will be increased by one since this year, June 30 has a leap second.
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Hubble, the Telescope That Revolutionized Our View of Space
Hubble, the first telescope to revolutionize modern astronomy and change our view of the universe by offering glimpses of distant galaxies, marks its 25th year in space this week.
