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Mercury’s first photo from orbit has been snapped by NASA‘s Messenger spacecraft on March 29, 2011, Space.com reported.
“This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the solar system’s innermost planet,” Messenger mission scientists...
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On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.
"The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC. "I'd say...
UFOs Help Innovative Thinkers Look to the Future
Where should forward-thinkers look when they seek innovative ideas? Perhaps to someone -- or something -- that's more innovative than they are.
From Saturday to Tuesday, more than 100 of the world's leaders in business, politics...
BBC News - Planck telescope observes cosmic giants
A supercluster of galaxies as it appears in Planck data (l) and in XMM data (r). Such structures contain hundreds of billions of suns
The Planck space telescope has identified some of the largest structures ever seen in the Universe...
Gliese 581g - Scientists Find What May Be The First Truly Habitable Exoplanet
The researchers estimate that the average surface temperature of the planet is between
-24 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-31 to -12 degrees Celsius). Actual temperatures would range from blazing hot on the side facing...
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This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe.
The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos.
It took the 600m-euro observatory just over six months to assemble the map...
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A planet outside of our solar system, said to be the first ever directly photographed by telescopes on Earth, has been officially confirmed to be orbiting a sun-like star, according to follow-up observations.
The alien planet is eight times the mass of Jupiter and orbits at an unusually great...