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What’s Up for November 2010?
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Date: October 30, 2010
Venus in the morning, gas giants in the evening and meteors after midnight.  credit: NASA/JPL
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Ariane 5 Launch
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Date: October 30, 2010
Ariane 5’s fourth launch of 2010.  credit: ESA
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NASA’s Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
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Date: October 28, 2010
The Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, or TDT, has contributed to the safety and development of a variety of aerospace vehicles and structures &#8...
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NASA’s Search-and-Rescue Technology
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Date: October 27, 2010
This animation depicts the next-generation search and rescue system, the DASS. Under this system, instruments used to relay emergency beacon signa...
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Looking 10,000 Years into the Future
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Date: October 27, 2010
The globular star cluster Omega Centauri has caught the attention of sky watchers ever since the ancient astronomer Ptolemy first catalogued it 2,0...
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Real-Time Face Tracking
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Date: October 27, 2010
his prototype from the University of Manchester (UK) shows an Active Appearance Model tracking 22 facial features (superimposed in yellow and red) ...
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STS-133: Discovery’s Rollout
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Date: October 26, 2010
Space shuttle Discovery rolls out to her seaside launch pad; and her payload is reviewed for the STS-133 mission.   credit: NASA
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NASA Partnership with Foursquare
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Date: October 26, 2010
NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander Doug "Wheels" Wheelock became the first person to "check in&...
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A Productive Collision
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Date: October 22, 2010
Peter Schultz and graduate student Brendan Hermalyn analyzed data from bits of the Moon’s surface kicked up by a NASA-engineered collision. They fo...
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Counting Craters on the Moon
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Date: October 22, 2010
Using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), NASA scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive catalog o...
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The era of reionisation
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Date: October 21, 2010
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far, UDFy-38135539, which we see as it ...
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The era of reionisation
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Date: October 21, 2010
A simulation of the era of reionisation. When the Universe cooled down after the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago, electrons and protons com...
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Weird Warm Spot on Exoplanet
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Date: October 20, 2010
This animation illustrates an unexpected warm spot on the surface of a gaseous exoplanet. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope discovered that the hottes...
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New Light on Solar Flares
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Date: October 16, 2010
This SOHO/EIT sequence records two huge solar flares that were detected in October 2003.  Credit: ESA/NASA
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Nickleback Chats with Wheels on ISS
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Date: October 16, 2010
Three members of the Canadian band Nickelback speak from Mission Control, Houston with astronauts and fans Doug Wheelock and Scott Kelly aboard th...
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