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SpaceX Dragon: Everything You Need To Know About The Space Capsule That Just Made History (PHOTOS)
Elon Musk’s spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX made history today at 9:56 a.m. ET, when its Dragon capsule was captured by the International Space Station’s robotic arm. The vessel made berth at the ISS at 12:12 p.m. ET.
DragonX is the first privately owned space vessel to dock at the International Space Station.
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NASA’s uber-powerful James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the aging Hubble telescope, has entered its final rounds of testing. This next-gen star gazer may launch as early as June 2014. NASA’s the budget for this project has increased from $3.5 billion to $6.5 billion since 2008.
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Buried in the flood of Kepler data, a planetary system unlike anything we've seen.
Two of its apparent planets share the same orbit around their star. If the discovery is confirmed, it would bolster a theory that Earth once shared its orbit with a Mars-sized body that later crashed into it, resulting in the moon’s formation.The two planets are part of a four-planet system dubbed KOI-730. They circle their sun-like parent star every 9.8 days at exactly the same orbital distance, one permanently about 60 degrees ahead of the other. In the night sky of one planet, the other world must appear as a constant, blazing light, never fading or brightening.
(via NewScientist; related: Kepler data release)
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The seven original Mercury astronauts participate in U.S. Air Force survival school at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. From left to right: L. Gordon Cooper Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, John H. Glenn Jr., Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. Portions of their clothing have been fashioned from parachute material, and all have grown beards from their time in the wilderness. The purpose of this training was to prepare astronauts in the event of an emergency or faulty landing in a remote area. (NASA)
Go look at all of these. So, so cool.
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Hubble’s sharpest view of the Orion Nebula. In this picture thousands of stars are forming. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars.
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NASA’s STEREO probes, twin telescopes launched in 2006, moved into position on opposite sides of the star, giving us an unprecedented look at the whole body in 3D. [HuffPost Tech via New Scientist]
The basalt dunes near Mars’s north pole undergo a physical transformation each spring. When the winter layer of carbon-dioxide ice melts, the thawing can disturb the sand and cause small avalanches, which create new alcoves on a dune’s slipface. As a result, some Martian sand dunes look quite different from year.
From NASA’s best space photos 2010: extreme ultraviolet image of the Sun, taken from the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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From NASA’s best space photos 2010: the Andromeda Galaxy. This pair of mosaic images were created from data returned by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope. While the top image shows light seen by the telescope’s longest-wavelength infrared detectors, the bottom image was captured using all four of the WISE infrared detectors.
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From NASA’s best space photos 2010: defrosting dunes on Mars, taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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