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The sharpest image ever taken of a dust disk around another star has
revealed structures in the disk which are signs of unseen planets. At a
distance of only 33 light years, this is the nearest star possessing a
visible disk of dust, which are believed to be the birthplaces of planets.
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Scientists have discovered irregular lumps beneath the icy surface of
Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. These irregular masses may be rock
formations, supported by Ganymede's icy shell for billions of years. This
discovery comes nearly a year after the orchestrated demise of NASA's
Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter's atmosphere and more than seven years
after the data were collected.
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A three-ton shipment of supplies safely arrived at the International Space
Station early Saturday as an unmanned Russian cargo ship made a fully
automated rendezvous and docking to the orbiting outpost 225 miles above
Earth.
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Globular star clusters are like spherical cathedrals of light -
collections of millions of stars lumped into a space only a few dozen
light-years across. Our own Milky Way Galaxy currently holds about 200
globular clusters, but once possessed many more.
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A NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory image has revealed a complex of several
intergalactic hot gas clouds in the process of merging. The superb Chandra
spatial resolution made it possible to distinguish individual galaxies
from the massive clouds of hot gas. One of the clouds, which envelopes
hundreds of galaxies, has an extraordinarily low concentration of iron
atoms, indicating that it is in the very early stages of cluster
evolution.
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In this unusual image, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view
of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the
stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a hot young star.
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With the delivery of all electronic systems, Cosmos 1 -- the world's first
solar sail craft -- has achieved a critical milestone in its countdown
towards its launch later this year or early in 2005. Cosmos 1's mission
goal is to perform the first controlled solar sail flight. Solar sailing
is the only known technology that may someday enable interstellar flight.
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planning for a Range Technology Qualification initiative at the Cape
Canaveral Spaceport. The program is aimed at accommodating emerging
military requirements for "operationally responsive" launch capabilities
that would increase efficiency at the spaceport while making Florida more
competitive for both government and commercial space missions.
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