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Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, January 9, 2004 -- http://www.space.com/

In today's issue:

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Science/Astronomy:
* Hubble: New Rogue's Gallery of 60,000 Galaxies
* Galaxies Collide, Make Life's Building Blocks
* Find Mars: Easy Doorstep Viewing Guide

Spaceflight:
* Bush to Announce Missions to Mars, Moon
* Spirit Landing Data Evaluated For Opportunity
* Engineers Urge Caution as Anxious Mars Rover Scientists Await Rolloff
* Astronotes: Broken Satellite Finds New Purpose
* Image of the Day: Holidays in Space
* Spirit's Latest: Zoom in on Mars!
* NEW! Daily Space Trivia

NEW! Entertainment: A Special Section created in partnership with Cinescape Magazine!
* DVD Review: Deep Space Nine -- Season 7
* 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:
* Star Survivor: Companion Endures Explosion
* Mars: 'Beautiful, Simply Beautiful!'
* Theory: Mass Extinction by Our Own Sun
* Spirit on Mars Rekindles Speculation White House Will Send Humans
* Mars Rover's Trek Delayed Due to Airbag Interference
* Orbiter Photographs Viking 1 and Pathfinder Landers on Mars' Surface
* Mars Express Fails to Contact Beagle 2

Plus...

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

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Science/Astronomy:

* Hubble: New Rogue's Gallery of 60,000 Galaxies
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/hubble_galaxies_040109.html

Astronomers have pieced together the largest picture of the universe, a mosaic of more than 10,000 galaxies that will prove invaluable to researchers hoping to understand galactic evolution.

* Galaxies Collide, Make Life's Building Blocks
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/antennae_galaxies_040109.html

A pair of colliding galaxies is flush with the building blocks for planets and ultimately life, astronomers announced this week.

* Find Mars: Easy Doorstep Viewing Guide
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mars_guide_040109.html

While NASA's Spirit rover provides spectacular close-up views of Mars, earthlings can still spot the planet from afar on any clear night. Though nowhere near as close as it was during the historic approach last August, Mars is still plainly visible each evening as it continues to fade in brightness.

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Spaceflight:

* Bush to Announce Missions to Mars, Moon
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/bush_mars_040108.html

President Bush will announce plans next week to send Americans to Mars and establish a permanent human presence on the moon, senior administration officials said Thursday night.

* Spirit Landing Data Evaluated For Opportunity
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_opportunity_040109.html

Teams of engineers are reconstructing the entry, descent, and landing of Spirit on Mars, piecing together how well the spacecraft behaved as it plummeted through the martian atmosphere onto the surface of the red planet

* Engineers Urge Caution as Anxious Mars Rover Scientists Await Rolloff
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_update_040108.html

A balky lander airbag continues to slow the readying of the Spirit rover to start its science-gathering duties on the surface of Mars. An attempt Wednesday to retract an airbag that could foul the robot's egress off its platform was not successful.

* Astronotes: Broken Satellite Finds New Purpose
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

A onetime failure of a spacecraft has given astronomers a new picture of one of the brightest, most familiar, stars in the night sky.

* Image of the Day: Holidays in Space
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_040109.html

They didn't win any awards for neighborhood holiday light displays, but the two-person crew on board the International Space Station did find a way to decorate their home these past few weeks

* Spirit's Latest: Zoom in on Mars!
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/zoomviewer/

At left in the photo, the circular topographic feature dubbed Sleepy Hollow is visible, along with dark markings that may be surface disturbances caused by the airbag-encased lander as it bounced and rolled to rest. A dune-like object that has piqued the interest of the science team with its dark, possibly armored top coating, can be seen at the right.

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

One of Today's 5 New Questions: Who was the first paying passenger on a space flight?

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

* DVD Review: Deep Space Nine -- Season 7
http://www.space.com/entertainment/ds9_season7_review.html

It's hard to believe that it's only been five years since the final episode of DEEP SPACE NINE aired on television.

* 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:

* Star Survivor: Companion Endures Explosion
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/supernova_companion_040108.html

* Mars: 'Beautiful, Simply Beautiful!'
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/mars_devore_seti_040108.html

* Theory: Mass Extinction by Our Own Sun
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_extinction_040108.html

* Spirit on Mars Rekindles Speculation White House Will Send Humans
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/bush_vision_040108.html

* Mars Rover's Trek Delayed Due to Airbag Interference
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_airbag_040107.html

* Orbiter Photographs Viking 1 and Pathfinder Landers on Mars' Surface
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mgs_mpf_viking_040107.html

* Mars Express Fails to Contact Beagle 2
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/express_update_040107.html

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