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July 2007
- Astronaut Takes Out the Trash, Into Space
  
  Reuters | Jul 23, 07 4:46 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A NASA astronaut hurled two large pieces of space junk—a 1,400-pound reservoir filled with ammonia and a 212-pound piece of video equipment—off the International Space Station and into the Earth's orbit today. NASA does not approve of space littering, Reuters reports, but the agency had no other option. More »
  
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  NASA • International Space Station • space • astronauts • space shuttle • ocean • garbage • atmosphere
- Meet Frank, Saturn's 60th Moon
  
  BBC | Jul 20, 07 1:09 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Scientists have discovered Saturn’s 60th moon, and are hinting that more could exist. In May, cameras aboard the Cassini spacecraft captured the “extremely faint object,” which scientists have officially designated a moon and tentatively named Frank. Composed mostly of ice and rock, Frank is about a mile wide and orbits between two other Saturnian moons, Methone and Pallene. More »
  
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  NASA • space • European Space Agency • Saturn • satellites • Cassini • Jupiter • International Astronomical Union • moons
- Planet with Water Discovered
  
  Yahoo! | Jul 11, 07 3:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Astronomers located the first planet beyond our solar system that hosts water—a giant gas ball bigger than Jupiter and named HD 189733b. Its sizzling climate, which can reach upwards of 3,600 degrees, renders it uninhabitable to any extraterrestrials, but the discovery shows that water is more common in outer space than previously thought. More »
  
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  NASA • space • water • discovery • extraterrestrial life • planet • European Space Agency • aliens • light • Jupiter • Spitzer orbiting telescope
June 2007
- Europe Seeks Mars Test Volunteers
  
  BBC | Jun 20, 07 5:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The European Space Agency is recruiting 12 volunteers to spend 17 months living and working in a series of interconnected modules that simulate an inter-planetary mission to Mars. The 'spaceship' is 19,250 cubic feet and is located at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow. More »
  
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  Russia • space • astronauts • Mars • space exploration • European Space Agency
- Atlantis Heads Home
  
  Space.com | Jun 19, 07 7:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station today and set out on the final leg of its 13-day mission. The seven astronauts' final preparations for landing included making sure the craft's heat shield was ready to re-enter the atmosphere before landing Thursday—or later if the weather doesn't cooperate—at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More »
  
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  Russia • International Space Station • space • astronauts • space shuttle • Earth • Atlantis • Kennedy Space Center • Sunita Williams
- Shuttle Docks at Space Station
  
  Associated Press | Jun 11, 07 5:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Atlantis docked with the international space station today, bringing with it a segment to be added to the station and the newest member of its crew. The arrival was marred by concern about a piece of thermal blanket on the shuttle that peeled back during launch; ground control is trying to decide if it needs to be repaired before the Atlantis returns. More »
  
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  NASA • International Space Station • space • astronauts • Atlantis • Sunita Williams • Clayton Anderson
- Most Massive Star Ever Weighs In
  
  Space.com | Jun 8, 07 6:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The most massive star yet discovered has been "weighed," astronomers say, and it tips the scales at a whopping 114 times the mass of the sun. The enormous star forms the bigger half of a rapidly orbiting binary system and it far outstrips both its companion star and the previous record holder—which weigh in at 84 and 83 solar masses, respectively. More »
  
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  NASA • space • astronomy • Hubble • sun • star
- Scientists Find Cold Dwarf Star
  
  BBC | Jun 5, 07 8:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Scientists are over the moon with the discovery of a cold brown dwarf in the Cetus constellation. The star-like body, spotted by a British team using the UKIRT telescope in Hawaii, is the coldest of its kind ever seen, the BBC reports, tipping thermometers at just 800 degrees F, a tenth the temperature of the sun. More »
  
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  space • space exploration • discovery • planet • star • telescope • dwarf
May 2007
- Crop of New Planets Means Better Chance of Life
  
  Reuters | May 29, 07 7:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Astronomers who've spotted 28 new planets in the past year are gaining confidence that other solar systems may be able to support life like ours. One researcher estimated that there are probably "tens of billions" of planets with habitable conditions, most important of which is hospitality to water. More »
  
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  space • astronomy • planet • solar system • universe • exoplanet
- Hubble Finds Dark Matter
  
  Space.com | May 15, 07 8:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Astronomers have discovered a ring of dark matter in a galaxy cluster about 5 billion light years away. The Hubble Telescope turned up an anomaly in the way stars in the area appear, which researchers think is a distortion caused by the intense gravity of the galactic "glue" holding the cluster together. More »
  
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  space • astronomy • Hubble • star • dark matter • gravity
- NASA Reveals Superpowered Telescope
  
  BBC | May 11, 07 4:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - NASA has uncovered a prototype for a new telescope that will outmagnify the dominant Hubble. The James Webb Space Telescope will cost $4.5 billion and float nearly a million miles from Earth when it launches in six years; its supercharged hexagonal mirror will transmit images of the farthest and oldest corners of the universe. More »
  
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  NASA • space • space exploration • Hubble • James Webb • telescope
- King of Supernovas Sheds Light on Early Stars
  
  Space.com | May 8, 07 8:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Researchers are reporting the biggest stellar explosion ever recorded—a discovery which could shed light on how the universe was shaped. The star, 150 times more massive than the sun, went out with a bang 100 times more powerful than typical supernovas. Astronomers think the first stars after the Big Bang, which were also gargantuan, met similar fates. More »
  
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  NASA • space • physics • black hole • star • Milky Way • Big Bang • supernova
- Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics
  
  CNN | May 1, 07 7:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As NASA plans a three-year manned mission to Mars during the next three decades, Oregon Trail ethics are being updated. What do you do with bodies of pioneers who don't make it? A new document on crew health from the space agency deals with death and interment where no man has gone before. More »
  
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  NASA • space • astronauts • ethics • Mars • safety • space exploration • cosmonaut
March 2007
- NASA Shutters Ideas Factory
  
  Guardian (UK) | Mar 22, 07 8:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a cost-cutting move, NASA is shutting down its futuristic think tank, source of way-ahead-of-the-curve ideas, many of them worthy of a Star Trek script. Closing the Institute for Advanced Concepts will save $4 million out of NASA’s $16 billion dollar budget. But former NASA scientist Keith Cowing describes the decision as “just plan stupid.. explorers without the right tools die.” More »
  
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  NASA • technology • science • space • genetics • space exploration • planet • deep space • think tank
- NASA Discovers Seas On Saturn's Moon
  
  Space.com | Mar 14, 07 9:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - NASA's radar detected evidence of huge seas—one of them larger than any of the Great Lakes—on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Although the spacecraft, Cassini, cannot confirm that the dark images are liquid until passing over the area again as scheduled in May, scientists believe they are bodies of liquid ethane or methane gas. More »
  
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  NASA • space • space exploration • Saturn • Cassini • Titan