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Photographer Penetrates Singapore Light-Pollution For Milky Way Time-Lapse Video
Added 775 Views / 0 LikesJustin Ng (justinngphoto.com) contrast-stretched digital images to reveal the Milky Way above Singapore along with a rising Venus. The city's many uncontrolled lights and hazy skies usually conspire to hide the cosmos.
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Jupiter and the Gemini Twins Shine In March 2014 Skywatching | Video
Added 874 Views / 0 LikesThe bright stars and star clusters of the constellation Gemini are on display along with post sunset sightings of Jupiter and Mars. Saturn and Venus make early morning appearances.
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Large Space Rock To Zip Between Earth and Moon | Orbit Animation
Added 761 Views / 0 LikesAsteroid 2014 DX110 will come within 218,000 miles of Earth on its closest approach on March 5th, 2014. Its about 90 feet-wide.
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05:40
Spiral Galaxy's 'Guts' Blown Out Into Space | Video
Added 708 Views / 0 LikesGalaxy cluster Abell 3627 super-heated winds are stripping away gas from spiral galaxy ESO 137-001. The process known as ram pressure stripping is not affecting any of the spiral's stars but will hamper its ability to create new ones.
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How NASA Will Spend Your Money | Video
Added 739 Views / 0 LikesThe NASA Administrator, former Shuttle Cdr. Charles F. Bolden, briefs taxpayers on NASA's goals including commercial partnerships, the Orion crew capsule and a possible heavy lift launcher.
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02:37
Lagrangian Elevator To The Moon - Is It Possible? | Video
Added 487 Views / 0 LikesLiftPort Group of Seattle seems to think so. This private company proposes launching rockets from Earth to a 'Lagrange Point PicoGravity Lab' where cargo can be transferred to and from the lunar surface.
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New Tool Will Catch Evolving Galaxies In The Act | Video
Added 707 Views / 0 LikesAstronomers are drawing inspiration from a new MUSE: The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile combines cameras and spectrographs to build 3D space time maps.
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03:26
Mars Atmosphere Today Could Explain Planet's Past Tragedy | Video
Added 716 Views / 0 LikesNASA's Mars MAVEN mission (arriving 21 September 2014) will detect and measure how the solar wind interacts with the Red Planet's atmosphere, giving clues to where its water went and why.
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100-Foot Space Rock Flies Between Moon and Earth | Video
Added 791 Views / 0 LikesAsteroid 2014 DX110 was captured by Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project (virtualtelescope.eu). Its closest approach is ~217,000 miles away from Earth on March 5th, 2014. (looped)
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Asteroid To Block Light From A Star - How To See It | Video
Added 724 Views / 0 LikesAsteroid 163 Erigone will occult the star Regulus on March 20th, 2014 at 2:06am ET and can be seen in part of the Northeast United States.
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Again! New Asteroid Only 44,000 Miles From Earth's Surface | Orbit Animation
Added 801 Views / 0 LikesA space rock named 2014 EC (discovered March 5th, 2014, estimated 13-45 feet-wide) will give Earth a close shave on March 6th. This is the second asteroid that has flown between the Earth and moon in consecutive days.
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03:54
Robotic Satellite Refueling Tech Works, NASA Proves | Video
Added 1,040 Views / 0 LikesThe Remote Robotic Oxidizer Transfer Test (RROxiTT) was successfully completed when a unique propellant transfer system (PTS) pumped fuel in to mock tank at the NASA KSC (Florida), while being controlled at NASA Goddard (Maryland).
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Never-Before-Seen Asteroid Break-Up Snapped By Hubble | Video
Added 669 Views / 0 LikesA space rock in the asteroid belt, named P/2013 R3, has fragmented into as many as 10 pieces. The four largest fragments are larger that 2 football fields each. Astronomers are investigation the cause with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA Hot-Fires Mini-Engines in SLS Test | Video
Added 799 Views / 0 LikesA tiny model (2 percent actual size) of the proposed Space Launch Systems was tested fired by Marshall Flight Center engineers to provide data on convective heating environments during ascent of the actual rocket.
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05:24
Armstrong Flight Research Center Puts The Aeronautics In NASA | Video
Added 738 Views / 0 LikesThe research center (formerly Dryden F.R.C.) is testing next generation airplanes with plans to increase their efficiency and design. The flight center was renamed after Neil Armstrong, the first moonwalker.
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Fast Moving Galaxy Leaves Behind A Trail Of Stars | Video
Added 894 Views / 0 LikesAs spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 zooms through the super hot gas of the Norma cluster, much of it's own gas is pulled away in a process called 'ram pressure stripping. The threads of gas left behind give birth to bright young stars, seen here in blue.
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Bright Fireball Over New Mexico Rattles Houses - See and Hear It | Video
Added 723 Views / 0 LikesOn March 6th, 2014, a meteor slammed into the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the night skies of north central New Mexico. Thomas Ashcraft captured the sights with a his fireball camera and the sounds with a forward-scatter meteor radar.
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02:51
Colliding Comets May Be Hiding Alien Planet | Video
Added 740 Views / 0 LikesAstronomers studying the dust and gas around bright star Beta Pictoris have discover a cloud of debris from collisions of icy comet-like bodies. Its possilbe that the comets are trapped in a small region by the gravity of a saturn-sized planet.
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Astronauts Spend 3 Days In Below Freezing Temps For Survival Training | Video
Added 753 Views / 0 LikesIn case of an off-course Soyuz landing (and the rescue teams inability to reach the crew in a reasonable time period), astronauts are trained in outdoor winter survival. ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen looks back at his training.
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Telescope Bigger Than A Galaxy, Really - Thanks Einstein! | Video
Added 765 Views / 0 LikesEinstein's Theory of Relativity predicts that a mass of star cluster Abell 2744 warps the fabric of space around it, bending and magnifying passing starlight. The Hubble Space Telescope's exposure of the cluster reveals 3,000 magnified galaxies.
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One Twin In Space, One On The Ground - Boon For Science | Video
Added 789 Views / 0 LikesNASA astronaut Scott Kelly will spend a year aboard ISS, giving researchers a better understanding of how spaceflight effects in the human body. Scott's identical twin Mark (fmr. Space Shuttle cmdr.) provides a unique Earth-based comparison.
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'Cosmos' Honored In Space With Experiment | Video
Added 748 Views / 0 LikesNeil DeGrasse Tyson, the host of the re-envisioned show, introduces a zero-gravity demonstration of Newton's third law of motion. Expedition 38's Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata prove the law aboard the International Space Station.
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Intergalactic Voids Are Not So Empty - 'Tendrils' Pierce Cosmic Bubbles | Animation
Added 705 Views / 0 LikesAstronomers observing with the Anglo-Australian Telescope have found a strangely arranged population of faint galaxies penetrating what were thought to be huge empty regions of space. Termed 'tendrils' these strings of matter may interconnect.
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NASA Seeks Bounty Hunters for Asteroids - $35K in Awards | Video
Added 599 Views / 0 LikesNASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge is asking citizen scientists to improve how we identify asteroids. The contest runs through August 2014.