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Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, January 7, 2004 -- http://www.space.com/

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The year is 2261. Commander John Sheridan has declared Babylon 5 free, breaking ties between it and Earth Alliance. It was only a matter of time before he would have to fight to remain free.
http://www2.warnerbros.com/babylon5/

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Science/Astronomy:
* Astronomers Find Sun's Twin
* Stardust Captures the Best Comet Image Ever
* Astronotes: Clouds of Water Found Circling a Star
* Image of the Day: Strange Lights in the Space Station Window
* Our Violent Universe: Galaxy Ripped to Shreds
* Biggest, Brightest Star Puzzles Astronomers
* Black Hole Gives Up Some Secrets

Spaceflight:
* Staying Warm with 'Frozen Smoke' of Aerogel
* Station Crew Hunts for Elusive Air Leak
* Space Shuttle Columbia and Crew Memorialized on Mars
* ZoomView: Zoom in on Mars!
* First Color Images from the Mars Rover Spirit
* Mars Rovers Gallery: First Batch of Images
* Mars Express: The Hunt for Beagle 2 Begins
* NEW! Daily Space Trivia

NEW! Entertainment: A Special Section created in partnership with Cinescape Magazine!
* DVD Review: Deep Space Nine -- Season 6
* FIREFLY's Master and Commander Speaks -- Part One
* Movie Review -- Big Fish
* A Sleeker 'Battlestar Galactica' Returns
* DVD Review -- X2: X-Men United
* Spotlight: ALIENS Egg Added to Smithsonian Collection

Recent Headlines:
* Galaxies in Young Cosmos More Massive and Mature th
* NASA Releases 3-D Images of Mars Surface
* Recognizing Martians: If We Find ET, Will We Know?
* Team Spirit Readies Robot for Mars Duties
* Spirit's First Images of the Red Planet

Plus...

* Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky
* Starry Night, TeamSETI

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Science/Astronomy:

* Astronomers Find Sun's Twin
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_twin_040107.html

The Sun has a twin, astronomers announced Tuesday.

* Stardust Captures the Best Comet Image Ever
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stardust_image_040107.html

NASA yesterday released a second close-up image of a comet taken Jan. 2 by the Stardust spacecraft. Astronomers said the dozens of photographs beamed back are the best ever made of a comet.

* Astronotes: Clouds of Water Found Circling a Star
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

Astronomers have found a ring of water encircling a star some 2,400 light-years away, and the water's movement provided an estimate of the star's mass.

* Image of the Day: Strange Lights in the Space Station Window
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_040107.html

>From the International Space Station, astronaut Don Pettit got a unique view of colorful auroras that sometimes dance above Earth's polar regions. He saw them on Earth's endless horizon. He looked down into them. He flew through them.

* Our Violent Universe: Galaxy Ripped to Shreds
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/galaxy_crash_040106.html

The newly witnessed demise of a galaxy has given astronomers a glimpse into the lives and deaths of spiral galaxies in a violent universe, and possibly a view of the ultimate fate of the Milky Way.

* Biggest, Brightest Star Puzzles Astronomers
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/brightest_star_040106-1.html

A team of researchers has found what appears to be the most luminous known star around, one so massive that it shouldn't have formed in the first place.

* Black Hole Gives Up Some Secrets
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/black_hole_040106.html

Three separate teams of researchers have unlocked some longstanding secrets of two stars that have puzzled astronomers for more than 20 years.

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Spaceflight:

* Staying Warm with 'Frozen Smoke' of Aerogel
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/tech_wed_040107.html

Famous for being the world's lightest solid, Aerogel also is proving to be a winning material with which to fashion super insulating blankets for various applications, including the space program.

* Station Crew Hunts for Elusive Air Leak
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/exp8_update_040106.html

A Russian device for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere of the International Space Station may be the source of a slow air leak flight controllers are monitoring, officials said Tuesday.

* Space Shuttle Columbia and Crew Memorialized on Mars
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_columbia_040106.html

NASA announced today that a plaque commemorating the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew is attached to the back of the Mars rover Spirit's high-gain antenna.

* ZoomView: Zoom in on Mars!
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/zoomviewer/

This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet.

* First Color Images from the Mars Rover Spirit
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_color_040106.html

Scientists are having a "field day" on Mars, ogling a staggering new view of the Red Planet revealed through the camera eyes of NASA's Spirit rover.

* Mars Rovers Gallery: First Batch of Images
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/archive.php?category=se

New images taken by the Mars Rover 'Spirit', including today's new color images!

* Mars Express: The Hunt for Beagle 2 Begins
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/express_update_040106.html

Europe's Mars Express satellite has settled into its operational orbit and will begin hunting in earnest for Beagle-2 on Jan. 7 from an altitude as low as 315 kilometers over the presumed landing area.

* Image of the Day: Elsewhere on Mars
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_040106.html

With NASA's Spirit rover safely on Mars and ready to poke around, secrets of the red planet are sure to unravel in coming months. But other places on Mars will likely remain mysterious until researchers can take closer looks at more and more of the planet.

* NEW! Daily Space Trivia
http://www.space.com/php/trivia/

One of Today's 5 New Questions: What was the first living creature to orbit the Earth in a man-made spacecraft?

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NEW! Entertainment:
http://www.space.com/entertainment/

* DVD Review: Deep Space Nine -- Season 6
http://www.space.com/entertainment/ds9_season6_review.html

If you've read my reviews of the earlier seasons of DEEP SPACE NINE then you'll already know I'm what they call a "Niner", that is, a fan of this incarnation of STAR TREK.

* FIREFLY's Master and Commander Speaks -- Part One
http://www.space.com/entertainment/whedon_part1.html

Joss Whedon owns the internet. Type his name into Google and do a search and see for yourself how many fansites there are for BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, its spinoff series ANGEL or even for FIREFLY, Whedon's short-lived science fiction series with a western twist from last season.

* Movie Review -- Big Fish
http://www.space.com/entertainment/big-fish_review.html

Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) has two problems. One is that his father, Edward (Albert Finney), is dying back home in Alabama while Will has made a life for himself and his pregnant wife (Marion Cotillard) in France. Will hurries to the old man's bedside, where he comes face to face with another problem: from Will's point of view, Edward has not told a single true story in his life, instead embellishing on the facts until they're unrecognizable.

* A Sleeker 'Battlestar Galactica' Returns
http://www.space.com/entertainment/galactica_new_031204.html

"Battlestar Galactica" is returning as a four-hour miniseries, backed by hype befitting a science fiction classic in the same galaxy as "Star Wars" or "Star Trek."

* DVD Review -- X2: X-Men United
http://www.space.com/entertainment/xmen2_dvd_review.html

When I was a kid, superhero movies sucked. No, not just in movies that were poorly made, but all of them. Comic-books presented the kinds of stories that just couldn't be made into movies, which is one of the reasons readers cherished them so much.

* Spotlight: ALIENS Egg Added to Smithsonian Collection
http://www.space.com/entertainment/spotlight.html

The next time you're visiting the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, don't pull a Kane and look into the alien egg.

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Recent Headlines:

* Galaxies in Young Cosmos More Massive and Mature than Expected
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/gemini_survey_040105.html

* Quarry in Tow, Stardust Begins Long Journey Home
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stardust_update_040102.html

* NASA Releases 3-D Images of Mars Surface
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_3D_040105.html

* Recognizing Martians: If We Find ET, Will We Know?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040105.html

* Team Spirit Readies Robot for Mars Duties
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_readied_040105.html

* Spirit's First Images of the Red Planet
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_images_040104.html

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