On February 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry, killing everyone onboard. During the investigation of the accident, it was established that a piece of insulating foam from the external fuel tank had peeled off during the launch 16 days earlier and struck the shuttle's wing.

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The Earth’s magnetosphere is formed when a stream of charged particles, such as the solar wind, interacts with and is deflected by the magnetic field that surrounds our planet. Within Earth’s magnetosphere are energetic particles that emit radio waves which are at frequencies audible to the human ear. This phenomenon [...]

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On August 6, 2012, Mars rover Curiosity reached Mars and started its descent through the red planet’s atmosphere. Now, post production specialist and philosopher Bard Canning has put together a truly amazing video of Curiosity’s descent into the unknown. This is simply awesome folks.

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Amateur astronomer George Hall of Dallas, Texas, was video-recording Jupiter on September 10, 2012, when he managed to catch a small asteroid or comet on video as it smashed into Jupiter. The huge fireball could be seen for only a few seconds, but it’s enough to make one realize the smallness of our tiny corner of the universe.

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Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is simply spectacular. The astrophotographer, Luc Perrot, waited for nearly two years for the sky and clouds to be just right to get the below shot.

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Just beautiful! This four-minute video combines several sequences of time-lapse imagery snapped recently by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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The most effective way to really explore the universe is to build self-replicating, autonomous robots that can be launched from the moon, at least according to professor of electrical engineering John D. Mathews. Science Daily has an interesting write-up about Mathews’ musings recently published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Well worth a [...]

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This video was put together by Sander van den Berg using RAW footage from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions. Very cool.

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In June 2009, Universe Today wrote: Asteroid mining is purely conceptual at this time, but there are valuable minerals to be harvested out there. In addition to iron and nickel there is thought to be gold an platinum in some asteroids. [...] In the future, miners will be asteroid mining. Today, the future has [...]

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