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Scientists have finally put together the pieces of the mystery of how planets form. Planet formation is a story with a well-known beginning and end, but how its middle plays out has been an enigma to scientists-until now. A new computer-modeled theory shows how rocky boulders around infant stars team up to form planets without falling into stars.

.• NRAO: Astronomers find hole in the Universe. • Graphics • "Cold spot" detected

.• AP: NASA Plans Online Archive of Space Shuttle Mission Images (August 31, 2007)

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• Animated graphic timeline: Building the Space Station, 1998 - 2011 • NASA TV Live • TV Roscosmos • ESA TV
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NASA Academia: An Examination of Cross-Cultural Interactionsaboard the International Space Station

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- Mission Specialist Dr. Karen Nyberg displays Longhorn Pride in orange socks while working aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.(Nov. 2008)
Aerial view of the Launch Complex at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center shows space shuttles on both pads • Web Photos • More Space Photos..
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A Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan



.• Endeavour docks with Space Station • BBC Video


• BBC News: Stargazers set sights on meteors
• NASA document: Crew health in deep space exploration
• Reuters: China to map "every inch" of moon surface: report
• CNN: Manned Space Flight » Photos • The Teacher in Space program
• Reuters: Space-walking astronauts install space station beam - Photos (Aug 12, 2007)

AP

Google to finance moon challenge contest
By Alicia Chang, AP, Sep 13, 2007


• Google Funds $30M X-Prize


Los Angeles, USA (AP) -- Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million contest that could significantly boost the commercial space industry and spur the first non-governmental flight to the moon. Read more »


• Google's moon shot

On the Net:

X Prize Foundation, http://www.xprize.org
Lunar landing website, http://www.googlelunarxprize.org

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• Official Google Blog: Fly me to the moon • Reuters: Fly me to the moon: space hotel sees 2012 opening
• Google Blog • PC World: Google Pledges $30 Million for Private Moon Landing • More on Google`s Moon mission

AP

Google Sky allows users to tour galaxies
By Dan Nephin, Aug 22, 2007


» Explore the sky with Google Earth


Pittsburgh, U.S. (AP) -- The heavens are only a few mouse clicks away with Google Inc.'s latest free tool. A new feature in Google Earth, the company's satellite imagery-based mapping software, allows users to view the sky from their computers. The tool provides information about various celestial bodies, from stars to planets, and includes imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources.

It also allows users to take virtual tours through galaxies, including the Milky Way, from any point on Earth they choose. "By working with some of the industry's leading experts, we've been able to transform Google Earth into a virtual telescope," Lior Ron, a Google product manager, said in a statement. The new software also promises users the ability to see planets in motion and witness a supernova. There are other programs that provide information and pictures of the universe, but Google Sky blends it seamlessly, said Andrew Connolly, a University of Washington associate professor of astronomy and part of Google's visiting faculty program. "What's unique about this is you have all of the imaging data over the whole of the sky actually streaming. So I can look at something that covers most of the sky, say our Milky Way galaxy, and I can zoom right into a tiny galaxy that's in the formation cycle," he said.

Google engineers stitched together "terabytes and terabytes" of images and other data, Connolly said. A terabyte can hold the text of roughly 1 million books. "Sky in Google Earth will foster and initiate new understanding of the universe by bringing it to everyone's home computer," said Dr. Carol Christian of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Current Google Earth users must download a new version from earth.google.com. The software works on computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. Google, the leading Internet search engine, already provides surface images of Mars and the Moon through its Web site, along with animated and satellite-based maps of Earth. Google Sky was developed at the company's Pittsburgh engineering office.
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On The Net:

Google Earth: http://earth.google.com
Google Sky: http://earth.google.com/sky
Google Moon: http://moon.google.com
Google Mars: http://www.google.com/mars


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.• Hubble: Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut

.ARD TV Video: Hubble observes first planet orbiting another star (14.11.2008) (Online Search)

.(Full Image) • NASA: Hubble Observes a Planet Orbiting Another Star


• Spacecraft Hubble Photo Gallery


• STSI: IAU Symposium 258: The Ages of Stars • The Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA)
• NewScientist: First images captured of alien solar system • Find Fomalhaut in the Celestial Sea

On the Net:

The Hubble Space Telescope: www.hubble.nasa.gov
Space Tel. Science Institute: www.stsci.edu/resources (more)
World Wide Telescopes: www.worldwidetelescopes.org
The Astro Observatory: www.archive.stsci.edu/astro » MAST Missions
Space & Technology News Alerts: www.aee.odu.edu/spacetechnewsalerts. . .

Nature.com

Phoenix mission on the launch pad
Katharine Sanderson, 3 Aug 2007


Phoenix can dig half a metre down into the martian soil.

A mobile laboratory should leave for Mars this weekend, aiming to dig up water ice from beneath the planet's surface. NASA's Phoenix mission is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center early in the morning of Saturday 4 August. Bad weather has delayed the launch by a day. Brandishing a digging arm and a range of scientific instruments, Phoenix is headed for an area of the martian north polar region thought to be rich in subsurface water ice, which was spotted by NASA's Odyssey spacecraft in 2002.Continued...
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Probe lifts off for journey to Mars
by Reuters

. Rocket blasts to Mars

Cape Canaveral, Florida (Reuters) - The Phoneix spacecraft lifts off with an arsenal of equipment to detect if Mars could ever support life. The rocket is equipped with a drill and other instruments to bore down into the ground and retrieve soil and ice samples for analysis. Scientists are hoping that the samples will determine whether the water on Mars had once been liquid, and if it contains any organic molecules. The results obtained from the unmanned rocket's journey could help scientists get a step closer to finding out if life could exist on the planet. Full article


• FloridaToday: Mars rover a record-setter • Video: Nasa´s rover on Mars • Space Blog update • More links

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Photos: NASA battles failure of space station computer > Video > Article, Jun 14, 2007

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The ISS's new S3/S4 truss solar array is shown fully deployed with the Canada robot arm in the foreground and the Earth in the background in this image from NASA TV, June 12, 2007.

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...• BBC: In graphics: Space Station

• AP: NASA document on crew health in deep space exploration

...Discovery Lift off...• ISS Calendar 2011 Photos (pdf) / More from the ISS Mission.
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• 28 New Exoplanets Discovered
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• BBC News: Woman breaks space flight record
• Reuters: Space station computer crash a mystery
• BBC: Planet hunters spy distant haul, 28 new planets discovered
• Reuters: Major computer problem looms over space station
• Reuters News: Fix sought for critical space station computers
• Reuters News: Russian experts try to fix space station computers

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Reuters: Europe latest to unveil space tourism proposal » Video: Space tourism
On the Net: EADS aerospace - http://www.eads.net/1024/en/Trailer_EADS.html

...Astronaut Scott Kelly, STS-118 commander, near a window on the ISS

- In this image made available Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 by NASA, Space Shuttle Endeavour, docked to the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station, is backdropped by a blue and white Earth during the STS-118 mission's third planned session of extravehicular activity Wednesday Aug. 15, 2007. The shuttle's Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robotic arm and station's Canadarm2 are also featured in the scene. The SPACEHAB pressurized logistics module is visible in Endeavour's payload bay.

.• BBC: Atlantis lands inCalifornia, Jun 22 2007 • Photos

» Reuters: U.S. space shuttle hitches ride to Florida

The space shuttle Atlantis takes off atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. on the first leg of its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Sunday, July 1, 2007.
• Private sector to bridge gap in U.S. space flight
• Reuters: Progress made toward lunar liquid mirror telescope

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Pierce Pioneer: Much-hyped BICEP gravitational wave theory of Big Bang falls flat
- A new study has looked at a more detailed analysis of microwave polarization from the aftermath of the Big Bang. Scientists are trying to make good or bad of last year's claim that gravitational waves had been detected from a burst of cosmic inflation... Powerful telescopes such as the Planck and BICEP2 have been put to use by astronomers to detect signs of these waves in the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, the left-over radiation that was emitted 380,000 years after the Big Bang that led to the formation of the universe about 14 billion years ago, and which now permeates the cosmos. Theoretically, the waves would have produced a swirly pattern in the CMB, dubbed the B-mode polarization, according to what astronomers reportedly discovered in March last year.

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"ufo" looks like an aberration of lens system (not the real thing) because it is colored like rainbow