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NASA Releases Workshop Data and Findings on Asteroid 2011 AG5

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Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040.

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China launches manned spacecraft with first woman astronaut

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Japan plans new atomic regulator by September

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First Flight Instrument Delivered For James Webb Space Telescope

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The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA.

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Trial by vacuum brings next Galileo satellites closer to launch

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The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes of space on the way to their scheduled 28 September launch.

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A Trick of Perspective — Chance Alignment Mimics a Cosmic Collision

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a highly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 3314. While the two galaxies look as if they are in the midst of a collision, this is in fact a trick of perspective: the two just happen to appear in the same direction from our vantage point.

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Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon

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Saturn's rings lie in the distance as the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and its dark region called Shangri-La, east of the landing site of the Huygens Probe.

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Small Planets Don't Need Stars With Heavy Metal Content To Form

The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon.

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NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off

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NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched this morning over the central Pacific, beginning its mission to study black holes and other exotic objects.

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One Ring to Bring Them All: Eclipse Enchants Grand Canyon Audiences

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The strange transformation of sunbeams into rings of light after traveling through small holes or gaps in foliage is similar to the projection of an image onto the back of a pinhole camera. Incidentally, a homemade pinhole camera is the safest way of viewing an eclipse if you do not have special solar viewing glasses.