Space News, 31 October 2015 | 15 Minute News

Eerie Smoke Ring Halo | Space Wallpaper

SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2015 07:57

In the star system DI Cha, two stars glow through a dust ring creating an eerie sight.

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Orion Egress Training

SpaceRef - 31 Oct 2015 23:59

NASA's Orion and the Ground Systems Development and Operations Programs practice egress training Oct. 6-8 using a mockup of the Orion crew module in the 6.2-million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Cen...

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The Youngest Crater on Charon?

SpaceRef - 31 Oct 2015 23:56

New Horizons scientists have discovered a striking contrast between one of the fresh craters on Pluto's largest moon Charon and a neighboring crater dotting the moon's Pluto-facing hemisphere....

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Worlds within Worlds: Hubble Peels ... f a Warm Neptune

PTTU - 31 Oct 2015 19:41

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China Building World's Most Massive Particle Accelerator --"Capable of Producing Millions of Higgs Bosons"

The Daily Galaxy - 31 Oct 2015 18:14

China is planning to build an enormous particle accelerator twice the size and seven times as powerful as CERN's Large Hadron Collider, according to state media reports. According to China Daily, the new facility will be...

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Dead comet with skull face to hurtle by Earth on Halloween

Phys.org - 31 Oct 2015 18:03

A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween looks like a dead comet with a skull face, NASA said after gaining a closer look at the spooky space object.

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NASA Kepler Mission: "Finding Alien Worlds with a Play of Light and Shadow"

The Daily Galaxy - 31 Oct 2015 16:17

Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When...

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Halloween Asteroid Is Bigger Than Expected, And Also a Giant Dead Comet Skull.

Bad Astronomy - 31 Oct 2015 15:30

Last week, I wrote about a smallish asteroid that would be passing relatively close to -- but still well away from -- the Earth on Oct. 31. Hey, that's today! Yup: It'll pass us at 17:05 UTC, when it will be at closest ...

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Halloween in Space: A Vampire Astronaut and Nightmare in Orbit

SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2015 13:51

You might masquerade as an astronaut for Halloween, but what about when astronauts dress up? Here's how one spacefarer celebrated the spooky season.

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Boo! Halloween Asteroid Looks Just Like a Creepy Skull

SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2015 07:44

NASA has called it a "Great Pumpkin." Others have called it "spooky." But this image of a huge asteroid making a Halloween flyby of Earth today looks so much like a skull, it's scary.

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Cosmic Soufflé: The Tricky Art of Spiral Galaxies

SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2015 07:25

Paul Sutter shares the recipe for making a spiral galaxy.

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Halloween Asteroid Flies By Earth Today: Watch It Live Online

SPACE.com - 31 Oct 2015 06:26

A huge asteroid the size of the football stadium has a Halloween encounter with Earth today (Oct. 31) and you can watch it online. NASA scientists have dubbed asteroid a cosmic "Great Pumpkin" to celebrate the spooky hol...

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