SETI public: Preparing for Contact: Lessons from the Past

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* Preparing for Contact: Lessons from the Past

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_vakoch_history_030612.html

Among scientists involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), it's quite common to be focused on the future, ever mindful that it could take years, or even decades, to find a signal from otherworldly intelligence. But if historian Steve Dick has his way, astronomers will also turn their attention toward the past as they search for life beyond Earth.

* Image of the Day: Hot Stuff in Andromeda
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/image_of_day_030612.html

This new set of images from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space-based telescope reveal newfound hot spots and widespread areas of diffuse hot gas in the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy.

* Astronotes: Out of Round: Surprisingly Flat Star Found
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

Stars are commonly thought to be round, but astronomers have long known this is never quite true. Even Earth, owing to its rotation, bulges a bit at the midsection.

* Earth Stands in for the Moon and Mars
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planet_analog_030611.html

Explorers eager to trek across the Moon's battered surface or Mars' dusty plains may be stranded here on Earth but our planet offers an array of locations that, in varying degrees, mimic those otherworldly landscapes.

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Recent Headlines:

* Boeing Delta 2 Sends Spirit Soaring Toward Red Planet
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/delta2_launch_030610.html

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