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Solar Sail Stunner
From NASA Science News : In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA’s NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail…
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Mt. Etna erupts
Directly from Bad Astronomy, gorgeous images of Mt Etna (and other volcanoes) as seen from space. As a kid I used to watch Etna’s eruptions “live” from the windows of our…
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Surprise of the day
Can you guess what the mechanism above is?Answer (directly from Wikipedia): Antikythera mechanism fragment. The mechanism consists of a complex system of 32 wheels and plates with inscriptions relating to…
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Fermilab: Tevatron shut down in 2011
A message from Fermilab’s director Piero Oddone, appeared on “Fermilab Today” (see also this Nature article): Yesterday we received the news that we will not receive funding for the proposed Tevatron extension…