Space
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Sharpshooting Enceladus
Swooping within 49 kilometers of Saturn’s tiny, geologically active moon Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed the locations of the icy geysers that erupt from the southern hemisphere of this wrinkled moon’s surface.
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Magellanic firestorm
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 100,000th orbit about Earth, astronomers aimed the observatory at a firestorm of stellar activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
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- Astronomy
Invisible clumps in the galaxy
Model finds dark matter nearby and might shed light on the invisible material’s composition.
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Surprising signal
Potential contaminant found on Red Planet does not rule out its prospect for habitability.
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- Astronomy
The Universe in a Mirror
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It.
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Officially ice
Phoenix Mars Lander detects water, a landmark that, along with other successes, prompts NASA to extend the mission.
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How a star is born
Researchers have developed a new and accurate simulation of the birth of the first stars in the universe.
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Save the date: solar eclipse
NASA will broadcast and webcast the next total solar eclipse Aug. 1, live from China
- Archaeology
Greeks followed a celestial Olympics
A Greek gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck not only tracked the motion of heavenly bodies and predicted eclipses, but also functioned as a sophisticated calendar and mapped the four-year cycle of the ancient Greek Olympics.
