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The Earth is also a planet: A Big Blue Marble

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The … Continue reading →

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Star clears away birth clouds

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera-3 has captured this image of a giant cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by a bright young star. The image shows how violent the end stages of the star-formation process can be, with the … Continue reading →

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Asteroid is just passin’ through

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Tuesday, Nov. 8 at about 6:28 PM, a space rock a little over 1,300 feet in diameter will pass within about 202,000 miles of Earth. It will not hit our home planet nor will it have any other effect on … Continue reading →

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Comet Elenin poses no threat to Earth

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, but most pose no threat to Earth. Comet Elenin, the latest comet to visit our inner solar system, is no exception. Elenin will pass about … Continue reading →

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