Towering transit of Venus

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OK, look, I know I’ve posted a lot of Venus Transit pix, and it’s been a week now, so you have to know I wouldn’t post one this late unless it was really awesome.I present to you really awesome… Part 1:Wow! This was taken by[...]

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June 14, 1948: TV Guide Prototype Hits N.Y.
Newsstands

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From Wired Top Stories: A New York attorney sees the future of American pop culture and publishes the first incarnation of what will soon become TV Guide. Read the whole article

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Tiangong's Big Tasks

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 14 June 2012 08:16:00 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2012
The flight of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is another step in China's most ambitious human spaceflight project to date. While much of the mission has yet to be completed, Tiangong 1 has already completed some major tasks. It's worth reviewing how much China is gaining from this small space laboratory. Tiangong 1 is barely larger than the Shenzhou spacecraft that ar

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Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to
Form

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2012
The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. However, new ground-based observations, combined with data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope, show small planets form around stars with a wide range of heavy element content and suggest they may be widespread in our galaxy. A research team l

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Planets can form around different types of stars

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Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jun 14, 2012
It had previously been thought that planets were more likely to form around a star if the star had a high content of heavier elements. But new research from the University of Copenhagen, among others, shows that small planets can form around very different types of stars - also stars that are relatively poor in heavy elements. This significantly increases the likelihood that Earth-like pla

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Orbital Launches Company-Built NuSTAR Satellite
Aboard Pegasus Rocket for NASA

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Dulles VA (SPX) Jun 14, 2012
Orbital Sciences reports that its Pegasus rocket has successfully launched the company-built Nuclear Spectroscopic Array Telescope (NuSTAR) satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into its intended orbit. Early results indicate that the NuSTAR satellite is operating as expected at this stage of its mission. The Pegasus/NuSTAR mission originated from the U.S.

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Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain
weird lunar soil behaviour

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Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2012
A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. Dr Zbik, from Queensland University of Technology's Science and Engineering Faculty, said scientists had long observed the strange behaviour of lunar soil but had not taken much notice of the nano and

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NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off

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NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) Wednesday, beginning its mission to unveil secrets of buried black holes and other exotic objects. "We have been eagerly awaiting the launch of this novel X-ray observatory," said Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division Director. "With its unprecede

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Media Tonedown for Tiangong

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By Morris Jones for SpaceDaily
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2012The launch of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is a major step forward for China's astronaut program. It's attracted the attention of the world's media, who have been carefully following progress in the mission. Even newspapers that don't normally cover spaceflight have been inspired to report on the flight. There are plenty of new

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Extremely little telescope discovers pair of odd
planets

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Anchorage, AK (SPX) Jun 14, 2012
Even small telescopes can make big discoveries. Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence of two very unusual faraway planets. One planet is a massive, puffed-up oddity that could change ideas of how solar systems evolve. The other orbits a very bright star, and will allow astronomers to ma

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