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Equinox Sky ShowGrab your binoculars. The crescent Moon and the Pleiades star cluster are gathering for a close encounter on the first night of Spring. It's the best Moon-Pleiades meeting over the United States until the year 2023.Read more... The Multiplying Mystery of MoonwaterResearchers who once confidently stated that the Moon was bone-dry are now thinking the unthinkable: The Moon has so much water, there's actually a "lunar hydrosphere." International spacecraft have recently discovered no fewer than three "flavors" of moonwater and no one knows when the discoveries will end.Read more... Space Photos of the Week: Spring Auroras, Starlets, More16 Mar 2010 at 2:21pm Auroras spring to life, the Milky Way enters middle age, a Mars moon gets its close-up, and more in the week's best space pictures.Read more... Picture of the Day - The Wizard Nebula16 Mar 2010 at 8:27am This image of the open star cluster NGC 7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula, is a mosaic of images from the WISE mission spanning an area on the sky of about 5 times the size of the full moon. NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it [...]
Read more... Western researcher solves 37-year-old space mystery15 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm (University of Western Ontario) A researcher from the University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year-old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon.Read more... Phobos flyby images15 Mar 2010 at 7:47am (ESA) - Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars? rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission. ESA's Mars Express spacecraft orbits the Red Planet in a highly elliptical, polar orbit that brings it close to Phobos every five months. It is the only spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars whose orbit reaches far enough fro [...]
Read more... New lunar images and data available to the public14 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The public can follow along with NASA on its journey of lunar discovery. On March 15, the publicly accessible Planetary Data System will release data sets from the seven instruments on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.Read more... Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise26 Nov 2008 at 4:26am Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft.Read more... China confirms Moon probe in 2007KAZINFORM - China will launch its first lunar probe this year, and expects to be able to land a man on the Moon within 15 years, a senior space official has ...China to launch moon probe in 2007 PRESS TVMan on moon possible within 15 years China DailyChina could put astronauts on moon in 15 years: expert ABC Newsall 98 news articles »Read more... China Confirms Moon Probe In 2007China will launch its first lunar probe this year, and expects to be able to land a man on the Moon within 15 years, a senior space official has confirmed, ...China's First Moon Mission Confirmed ShortNews.comall 2 news articles »Read more... Scientists Cast Hand Shadows On Moon During Lunar EclipseEasily visible on the surface of the moon were rabbit figures, a duck's head, a peace sign, Dolly Parton's breasts, and obscene hand gestures. ...Lint rollers may collect dangerous Moon dust New Scientist (subscription)all 3 news articles »Read more... When the blue moon turned to red ...The skies stayed clear for stargazers across Times Territory to look upwards and see the moon take on a reddish glow. Lunar eclipses happen when the sun, ...'Blood Moon' over Dorset Dorset EchoDark side of the moon Belfast TelegraphEclipse wows Suffolk stargazers Suffolk Evening StarHerts 24 - Sommerset County Gazetteall 8 news articles »Read more... A Grey Moon over ChinaA Grey Moon over China (Black Heron Press, 465 pages, $25.95) is a novel that extrapolates today's political climate into a far-from-utopian future. ...Read more... Germany plans Moon missionThe German Air and Space Centre (DLR) is planning its first independent mission to the Moon. If all goes to plan, a satellite will orbit the Moon for four ...Read more... Whole of the moonThe moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of grey and orange during the first total lunar eclipse in almost three years. ...Perfect skies as lunar eclipse provides a remarkable display Sheffield Todayall 2 news articles »Read more... | |||||
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