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Rosetta blog: All-round activity – CometWatch 25-26-27 February Posted: 04 Mar 2015 09:13 AM PST Today’s CometWatch features not one, but four single-frame NAVCAM images taken between 25 and 27 February at distances The post Rosetta blog: All-round activity – CometWatch 25-26-27 February has been published on Technology Org.

Finding meteorite impacts in Aboriginal oral tradition Posted: 04 Mar 2015 02:08 AM PST Imagine going about your normal day when a brilliant light races across the sky. It explodes, showering the The post Finding meteorite impacts in Aboriginal oral tradition has been published on Technology Org.

Why Don’t We Search for Different Life? Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:43 AM PST If we really want to find life on other worlds, why do we keep looking for life based The post Why Don’t We Search for Different Life? has been published on Technology Org.

Kamikaze Comet Loses its Head Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:40 AM PST Like coins, most comet have both heads and tails. Occasionally, during a close passage of the Sun, a comet’s The post Kamikaze Comet Loses its Head has been published on Technology Org.

Bright Spots on Ceres Likely Ice, Not Cryovolcanoes Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:54 PM PST As the Dawn spacecraft prepares to enter orbit around Ceres on March 6, the science team provided the The post Bright Spots on Ceres Likely Ice, Not Cryovolcanoes has been published on Technology Org.

Simulating space for JWST’s four infrared instruments Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:48 PM PST Building a space telescope is no mean feat. Conditions here on Earth are drastically different from those experienced The post Simulating space for JWST’s four infrared instruments has been published on Technology Org.

Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:38 PM PST Astronomers using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have found a cluster of stars forming The post Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center has been published on Technology Org.

Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:36 PM PST NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard The post Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover has been published on Technology Org.

Scientists provide new data on the nature of dark matter Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:35 PM PST Recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Granada can contribute to determine the nature of dark The post Scientists provide new data on the nature of dark matter has been published on Technology Org.

Far from home: Wayward cluster is both tiny and distant Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:33 PM PST Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and The post Far from home: Wayward cluster is both tiny and distant has been published on Technology Org.

Study Finds Two Solar Wind Jets in the Heliosphere Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:29 PM PST As the sun skims through the galaxy, it emits charged particles in a stream of plasma called the The post Study Finds Two Solar Wind Jets in the Heliosphere has been published on Technology Org.

New technique allows analysis of clouds around exoplanets Posted: 03 Mar 2015 01:39 PM PST Meteorologists sometimes struggle to accurately predict the weather here on Earth, but now we can find out how The post New technique allows analysis of clouds around exoplanets has been published on Technology Org.