 |  The Universe Through the Looking Glass
A whole new world came to life for Alice when she passed through the looking glass - beetles with bad attitudes, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, smiling cats, talking tiger lilies and much more.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/module_thumb.jpgMirrors have special powers in the...  |
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09-13-2007
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| | Mars Rovers Survive Dust Storms
Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/pia09975_thumb.jpgOpportunity's planned descent into the giant... |
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09-10-2007
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| | Voyager at 30: Looking Beyond and Within
A mission that was supposed to last just five years is celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall. Scientists continue to receive data from the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as they approach interstellar space.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/voyager_thumb.jpgThe twin craft have... |
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09-08-2007
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09-06-2007
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| | Cosmic Cockroaches
Starved. Stomped. Radiated. Poisoned. It's all in a day's work for the common household cockroach. The abuse these creatures can withstand is amazing.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/Naphthalene_thumb.jpgBut astronomers have found something even tougher—"polycyclic... |
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09-05-2007
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| | Dark Pit on Mars' Arsia Mons, with Sunlit Wall
The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) has confirmed that a dark pit seen on Mars in an earlier HiRISE image really is a vertical shaft that cuts through lava flow on the flank of the Arsia Mons volcano. Such pits form on similar volcanoes in Hawaii and are called "pit craters." ... |
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09-03-2007
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| | Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' On Young Star System
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. Astronomers say the water vapor is pouring down from the system's natal cloud and smacking into a dusty disk where planets are thought... |
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09-03-2007
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| | Method pioneered for probing exotic matter
Astronomers using XMM-Newton and Suzaku have seen Einstein's predicted distortion of space-time and pioneered a ground-breaking technique for determining the properties of neutron stars.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/neutron_thumb.jpgESA’s XMM-Newton and the JAXA/NASA... |
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08-28-2007
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| | Tuesday Morning's Lunar Eclipse
Tuesday morning, Aug. 28 brings us the second total lunar eclipse of 2007. Those living in the Western Hemisphere and eastern Asia will be able to partake in at least some of this sky show.
The very best viewing region for viewing this eclipse will fall across the Pacific Rim, including... |
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08-24-2007
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| | Huge Hole Found in the Universe
The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.
The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars,... |
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08-24-2007
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| | Hubble Camera Snags Rare View of Uranus Rings
A rare image of the ring system of the planet Uranus has been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, using the onboard JPL-built and designed Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/uranus_189982_thumb.jpgThe view, tilted edge-on to Earth, was... |
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08-24-2007
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| | Hubble Teams with Google to Bring the Cosmos Down to Earth
Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google Earth.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/1054_web_thumb.jpgSky in Google... |
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08-22-2007
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| | Hinode helps unravel long-standing solar mysteries
A year after launch, scientists working with Hinode, a Japanese mission with ESA participation, are meeting at Trinity College, Dublin, to discuss latest findings on solar mysteries - including new insights on solar flares and coronal heating. ... |
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08-22-2007
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| | Scientists are a step closer to understanding sunshine
A monumental experiment buried deep beneath the mountains of Italy has provided Princeton physicists with a clearer understanding of the sun's heart -- and of a mysterious class of subatomic particles born there.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/pia03149_modest_thumb.jpgThe... |
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08-21-2007
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| | Do Supermassive Black Holes Stunt Stellar Birth in Galaxies?
New evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that supermassive black holes at the centers of elliptical galaxies keep the galactic "thermostat" so high gas cannot cool, stunting the birth of new stars.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/sig07-015_thumb.jpgFor the... |
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08-20-2007
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| | Speeding-Bullet Star Leaves Enormous Streak Across Sky
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted an amazingly long comet-like tail behind a star streaking through space at supersonic speeds. The star, named Mira after the Latin word for "wonderful," has been a favorite of astronomers for about 400 years. It is a fast-moving, older star... |
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| | Bright Galaxies Hidden In Distant Universe Unveiled
By combining the capabilities of several telescopes, teams of scientists, including University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomers, have spotted extremely bright galaxies hiding in the distant, young universe. They are the most luminous and prolific galaxies seen at that great distance,... |
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08-10-2007
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| | Great Perseids
Got a calendar? Circle this date: Sunday, August 12th. Next to the circle write "all night" and "Meteors!" Attach the above to your refrigerator in plain view so you won't miss the 2007 Perseid meteor shower.
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08-08-2007
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| | NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region of Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up examination of the surface of the northern polar region.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/launch_thumb.jpgPerched atop a Delta II rocket, the spacecraft left... |
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08-06-2007
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| | Beware the Piranha
Deep in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy lurks an extraordinary black hole. Astronomers call it "supermassive." It has been feeding on the core of our galaxy so long, the hole has accumulated more than a million Suns of mass inside its pinprick belly. ... |
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08-05-2007
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