NASA News
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A NASA spacecraft has captured footage of Tuesday's partial solar eclipse. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured images of the new Moon crossing part of the Sun's face in a partial eclipse that was visible only from space.
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Nearly at the peak of its 11-year Solar Cycle 24, a NASA spacecraft captured a video that shows Earth-sized solar tornadoes dancing across the sun's surface. The tornadoes had gusts of up to 482,803 km/h (300,000 mph).
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This week marked the successful launch of the European Space Agency's first Vega rocket from their launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Washington -
NASA revealed an image of the oldest recorded supernova on record. The image, which combines data from four telescopes, shows RCW 86, which is approximately 8,000 light-years away and is 85 light-years in diameter.
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Toronto -
Gone are the days we have been used to: mild temperatures, no snow on the ground and moments of sunshine. Old man winter returned to the Greater Toronto Area this weekend with a blast of snow and freezing cold temperatures.
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NASA astronomers say a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids. This, the experts say, could explain the frequent flares observed in the center of the Milky Way.
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Austrian stuntman and adventurer Felix Baumgartner is planning the highest dive from the sky in history. The record-breaking leap will see Felix jump out of a balloon 36.5km above the ground.
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Europe's deadly winter has claimed more than 200 lives and ground planes, trains and many automobiles. Here are 12 Flickr photos showing what Mother Nature has unleashed on European countries.
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After a springlike weather of the Groundhog Day in the region of Vancouver's Lower Mainland, the last remains of snow are found in higher elevations in the mountains.
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Facebook has reached out across society in many ways, and now NASA is getting in on the multi-player online game action. On Jan. 30 NASA debuted Space Race Blastoff.
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NASA Headlines
 NASA's Hubble Telescope has discovered an ancient supernova, detecting the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than nine billion years ago.
 A new NASA study predicts massive ecological changes for Canada's Prairies and boreal regions by the year 2100.
 NASA will launch an airborne science lab aboard a DC-8 plane above snowstorms in Ontario next week to measure snowfall from space.
 Ebb and Flow are the new names of twin NASA spacecraft that orbited the moon on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Nasa's Grail satellites enter orbit around the Moon, where they will map gravity variations to reveal the body's internal structure in fine detail.
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A solar prominence (loop) erupts from the surface of the sun on 30 March in this false-colour image taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Reds are relatively cool, at about 60,000 °C, while blues and greens are at more than 1 million °C
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NASA Blogs
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Scientists have announced that they have studied a remarkable bacterium that can function without oxygen and can...
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‘Several earth like planets have recently been discovered, each thought to have once harboured conditions necessary...
Dec 27, 2011 by Mwong - 1 comment
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Following on from my earlier blog post, there is a second 'science scandal' from 2011 which caught my eye. This one...
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When this item was first passed to me, I really didn't give it a second thought, and then, I did. After all,...
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Of asteroids and aliens: An asteroid will pass by the Earth this Tuesday (Nov. 8). It will be closer than the moon. On...
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