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NASA's Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to 2019
Universe Today - 1 Oct 2017 02:40
The most powerful space telescope ever built will have to wait on the ground for a few more months into 2019 before launching to the High Frontier and looking back nearly to the beginning of time and unraveling untold as...
Spacecraft Flies By a Habitable Planet
Scientific American - 2 Oct 2017 00:00
Echoing a famous experiment, the OSIRIS-REx mission treats Earth as a target of opportunity --
The Alien Observatory --"Holographic Lasers Zap Plumes of Water from Vast Ocean of Saturn's Enceladus" (WATCH Video)
The Daily Galaxy - 1 Oct 2017 18:53
NASA Scientists have calculated that as much as 250 kilograms of water vapor is released every second in each of Enceladus's plumes. Since those first observations, more than a hundred geysers have been spotted. This wat...
Expedition to Zealandia --"Lost 8th Continent Submerged 80 Million Years Ago With Rise of the Pacific Ring of Fire"
The Daily Galaxy - 1 Oct 2017 18:06
"Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million-year-old secrets through scientific ocean drilling," said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's D...
New Season of Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'StarTalk' Premieres Tonight
SPACE.com - 1 Oct 2017 16:24
Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to the National Geographic Channel with a brand-new season of "StarTalk" tonight (Oct. 1).
Gigantic Solar Ejection Lights Up Mars in Ultraviolet Light --"Caused a Planet-Wide Aurora"
The Daily Galaxy - 1 Oct 2017 06:14
An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions in orbit and on the surface. NASA announced Friday that a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on September 11 was so strong that cha...
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