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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Astronomical News

After Mars Landing, NASA May Have Anxious Wait

Due to a glitch with a primary communications satellite, we may be in for a nail-biting wait to hear from Curiosity after it lands on Aug. 6. Read more
After Mars Landing, NASA May Have Anxious Wait

Using Lasers and Antimatter to Trek to the Stars

The VARIES concept will use powerful lasers to excite a quantum phenomenon, generating antimatter fuel from the vacuum of space. Read more
Using Lasers and Antimatter to Trek to the Stars

How Pluto Got Its Moons

Astronomers found Pluto's fifth moon 34 years after finding its first. Read more
How Pluto Got Its Moons

Not a Dwarf: Is Pluto a Binary Planet?

Pluto really has only four moons if the largest moon in the system, Charon, is considered a "binary planet" companion to Pluto. Read more
Not a Dwarf: Is Pluto a Binary Planet?

Herschel Spots a Hot Young Star-Forming Butterfly

ESA's Herschel Space Observatory images the intricate structures that form a stellar nursery, 2300 light-years from Earth Read more
Space butterfly

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