‘Gravity tractor’ could deflect asteroids* 22:55 28 July 2008
* NewScientist.com news service
* David L Chandler
A “gravity tractor” could deflect an Earth-threatening asteroid if it was deployed when the asteroid was more than one orbit away from the potential impact, according to a new study. If the space rock was found heading straight for Earth, a […]
THROW THEM DOWN THAT HOLE!!
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An artist’s impression of the lowest-mass known black hole belonging to a binary system named XTE J1650-500. The black hole has about 3.8 times the mass of our sun, and is orbited by a companion star.
(NASA/Reuters)
Mini-black hole is smallest ever but still strong
Tue Apr 1, 3:44 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA […]
after a weekend of History, Discovery and National Geographic channels,
enjoy this latest glimpse of doom.
Real Death Star Could Strike Earth
Charles Q. Choi
Special to SPACE.com
SPACE.com
March 10, 2008
A beautiful pinwheel in space might one day blast Earth with death rays, scientists now report.
Unlike the moon-sized Death Star from Star Wars, which has to get close to […]
But, it will move to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
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By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience
posted: 19 September 2006 08:58 am ET
Simulated event of the collision of two protons in a particle accelerator viewed along the beam pipe. The colors of the tracks emanating from the center show the different types of particles emerging from the collision. […]
First planet with water is spotted outside Solar System
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View of a star cluster in outer space. Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had spotted the first planet beyond the Solar System that has water, the precious ingredient for life.(AFP/NASA-HO/File)
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Wed Jul 11, 1:58 PM ETPARIS (AFP) - Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had spotted the first planet […]
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The Keck II telescope and operator, Tommy Nosferatu.
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Telescope Gives Deepest View of Space
Associated Press 07.11.07, 9:46 PM ET
Astronomers believe they’ve glimpsed light from some of the universe’s first stars through the world’s largest telescope (Keck II) on the Big Island.
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A mosaic of six distant galaxies discovered by gravitational lensing is seen
in this handout picture released […]
NASA Recycles Old Spacecraft for New Missions
Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
SPACE.com Wed Jul 4, 1:00 AM ET
Two NASA probes well past their prime have a fresh lease on life and new missions ahead, the space agency announced Tuesday.
The motherships for NASA’s completed Deep Impact and Stardust missions - which smacked one comet and returned samples from another […]
Black Diamonds are not the only hallowed objects from outer space.
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After all these years of believing that George Reeves’s grip strength as Superman turned coal into diamonds, it was refreshing to see that another source exists. Anything which makes DeBeers nervous is fine by me.
“ET Gems: Black Diamonds Come from Outer […]
The checkered history of powered toothbrushes reveals how batteries wrought a tremendous sacrifice of power and imagination for the sake of size and profit. Let us stumble down memory lane.
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PUH-LEEZE!
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A Cleveland, Ohio entrepreneur, Silesius Horvak, commissioned Allis-Chalmers to construct one of the world’s largest steam engines as the power source for the Steam-O-Dent Oral De-Tartarizator. […]