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New Billion Star Map!
The most detailed 3D map yet of a billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy was released today (Sept. 14), along with a sneak peek at brand-new data on millions of stars collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.
Gaia has been scanning the sky to create a catalog of more than a billion stars in and around the Milky Way since 2014. Today's first data release includes precise positions and brightness of 1.142 billion stars, plus distances and motions of more than 2 million stars.
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Midwest Is "Space Storm Alley" Map Reveals
Power outages are often triggered by storms, and certain regions are more vulnerable to certain kinds of storms. Hurricanes threaten the Gulf Coast, ice storms menace New England and Tornado Alley, of course, earned that name for a reason.
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A Nearby Star Is Birthing a Massive Icy World
TW Hydrae is something of a celebrity in protoplanetary circles. The 10 million year old star is thought to resemble our sun when it was young and, as observational techniques have improved, astronomers have been mesmerized by the star's protoplanetary...
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Massive Meteorite Pulled From Argentina Hole
A massive iron meteorite has been pulled out of its Argentine grave, after hiding underground for 4,000 years. Discovered on Sept. 10 by Astronomy Association Chaco meteorite hunters, the so-called Gancedo meteorite is not your average chunk of space...
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SpaceX President Decide Return to Flight
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said Sept. 13 that Falcon 9 could return to flight this year, although SpaceX has yet to determine what caused the Sept. 1 explosion. "We're anticipating getting back to flight, being down for about three months...
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Clinton Supports Human Mars Exploration
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she supports plans to send humans to Mars, a central theme of the current administration's civil space policy.
In a response to a questionnaire on science policy topics released Sept. 13 by ScienceDebate.org that represent some of her most detailed space policy comments to date, Clinton said she would build upon the progress made by NASA in space science, technology and exploration.
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Time to start space shuttle
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V shuttle will launch the U.S. Air Force satellite, SBIRS GEO-3, for missile early-warning detection.The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is a consolidated system of satellites that supports missile defenses and technical intelligence
missions created by Lockheed Martin.
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