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A snowstorm on a comet

19 November 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science, technology
You think our winter is crazy here? Whiteouts, snow storms, blizzards... imagine a snowstorm in space - with snow falling up, instead of down! That's what's happening on Comet Hartley right now. Particles of ice and snow - frozen CO2 probably, and some as large as a basketball - are being shot from jets on the comet's surface. This...

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Stunning new videos from NASA's solar telescope

23 April 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science
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NASA has released the first videos from its new solar telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory. They are stunning. The...

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Interstellar cloud baffles scientists

25 December 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Remember the early planetary spaceships, [url="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/"]Voyager 1 and...

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