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The solar eclipse of Wednesday, July 22, 2009 will be the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting at most 6 minutes, 39 seconds.
Safe Viewing Methods There are only three safe viewing methods:
1. Viewing through a special aluminized Mylar film designed specifically for eclipse viewing. (The [...]
The space shuttle Atlantis mission to repair and upgrade the telescope powerful than ever. The Hubble and Earth
The Solar Power Panels
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Space Telescope.
This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)
Very close look of the sun, Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Space Telescope
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With the help of a common virus, scientists have built a battery that rivals the state-of-the-art rechargeable models now powering personal electronics and hybrid vehicles.
The hope is to replace the costly, toxic electrodes currently used in lithium-ion batteries.
The researchers modified the M13 virus, which infects only bacteria, to grow proteins on its surface that [...]
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KOLKATA: It’ll be to coronary care what Nano is to cars, say scientists at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, who have devised an artificial heart that could save lives for just Rs 1 lakh. The research team says trials of the prototype lab—constructed heart have been successful on small animals and the gadget is being [...]
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The Medusa galaxy is seen in a composite of x-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and visible light captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in this image released March 10.The x-ray data, rendered in blue, also shows a black hole on the left-hand side of the image.
Since x-rays can be sensed long after [...]
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1. Venus, Jupiter, Moon Smile on Earth The heavens smiled down on Earth December 1 in National Geographic News’s most viewed space photo of 2008. The celestial smiley face is the result of a planetary conjunction between Venus, Jupiter, and the moon, shown here over Manila in the Philippines.People in Asia [...]
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Over the weekend, rumors started rebounding around the Internet: initial work from the Mars Phoenix lander had found something that was evidence relevant to the possibility of life on Mars, and the President had been briefed. Before the jokes regarding the President and intelligent life had subsided, other rumors suggested that NASA had found a [...]
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