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GJ1214b: Astronomers Find 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 16, 2009 This artist’s impression shows how the newly discovered super-Earth surrounding the nearby star GJ1214 may look. Discovered by the MEarth project a...

Mammograms Could Increase the Risk for Breast Cancer Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 16, 2009 A new study raises concerns that the low dose of radiation in mammograms increases the risk of breast cancer in high-risk women — esp...

BiDi Screen from MIT Media Lab Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2009 The BiDi Screen is an example of a new type of I/O device that possesses the ability to both capture images and display them.  cred...

Man Finally Improves The Wheel Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2009 Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bike...

Hubble’s Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2009 The nearest and most opulent stellar factory resides 170,000 light-years away in a turbulent star-birth region called 30 Doradus. Many of the diamo...

This Week at NASA — December 15 Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2009 A weekly summary of the latest news, events and mission activities at NASA.

Born in Beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2009 Visible to the naked eye, only 1500 light-years from Earth, the great Orion Nebula has been known and revered since ancient times. A popular targe...

Close-up Photos of Dying Star Show Our Sun’s Fate Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 15, 2009 This movie combines infrared images of the surface of Chi Cygni, obtained with IOTA, with visual brightness measurements provided by the American ...

WISE Launch Successful Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 14, 2009 NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) launched aboard a Delta II rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Dec.14, 20...

Mars Express Photographs Phobos and Deimos Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 14, 2009 For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA’s Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering...

Introducing The Copenhagen Wheel Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 14, 2009 Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bike...

Mars Express Photographs Phobos and Deimos Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 11, 2009 In a first, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged the martian moons Phobos and Deimos together on November 5, 2009. Apart from their ‘wow’ factor, ...

NASA WISE Infrared Satellite set to Fly Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 10, 2009 The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) will scan our section of the universe with it’s very sensitive IR telescope looking for a glow ommit...

Behind the Webb Space Telescope Part 1 Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 10, 2009 The digital camera in your home shares a family tree with the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s instruments use "detectors," similar to the sensor...

Harnessing the Ocean’s Power Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 10, 2009 Capturing the power of ocean waves could become an important part of the world’s renewable energy portfolio.

Fembot: Robotic Bird Helps Scientists Study the Sage Grouse Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 10, 2009 Fembot helps researchers study America’s most bizarre bird, the sage grouse.  credit: NSF

Solar Energy Powers Marines On Battlefield Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 09, 2009 A year ago, U.S. Marines operating in the Arabian Desert only viewed the sun as the source of the region’s relentless heat.  Recen...

Preschoolers in Daycare Watch Less TV Than Those At Home Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 09, 2009 Pre-schoolers who spend their days in daycare centers watch significantly less TV than many who are in home-based care.

Chopper Drop Tests New Technology Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 09, 2009 How do you make a helicopter safer to fly? You crash one. NASA aeronautics researchers recently dropped a small helicopter from a height of 35 feet...

Cassini Captures Saturn’s Hexagon Channel: redOrbit Length: 0 Date: December 09, 2009 After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn’s north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most ...

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