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CASSINI CAPTURES STUNNING VIEW OF SATURN
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Four months before its scheduled arrival at Saturn, the Cassini-Huygens
spacecraft sent its best color postcard back to Earth of the ringed world.
The spacecraft is expected to send weekly postcards, as it gets closer to
the ringed giant.
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Astronomers have discovered the nearest and youngest star with a visible
disk of dust that may be a nursery for planets. The dim red dwarf star is
a mere 33 light years away, close enough that the Hubble Space Telescope
or ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics to sharpen the image
should be able to see whether the dust disk contains clumps of matter that
might turn into planets.
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A naked-eye comet - one visible to the unaided eye without telescope or
binoculars - is an enjoyable sight, particularly for the brighter comets.
On average, a naked-eye comet graces our skies about once every two years.
Only rarely do two relatively bright naked-eye comets appear
simultaneously. Such an event will take place in April and May.
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Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Washington
University have seen carbon and nitrogen anomalies on a particle of
interplanetary dust that provides a clue as to how interstellar organic
matter was incorporated into the solar system.
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Updates about work being performed on NASA's three space shuttles --
Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour -- as well as preparations for Return to
Flight is released by Kennedy Space Center.
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The Space Foundation has announced the selection of four "down to earth"
technologies for induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Three
were spawned by NASA efforts, and the fourth by the work of the U.S. Air
Force Research Laboratory.
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