Discovery Lights Up the Evening Sky
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By Mike Schneider Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of molecules in their atmospheres.
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By Martin MerzerCAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The space shuttle Discovery soared into space on Saturday on a column of fire that briefly dispelled the darkness over the Kennedy Space Center in NASA's first night launch since the Columbia disaster.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 9 -- The space shuttle Discovery, briefly turning night into day, streaked into space Saturday evening and set off after the international space station to rewire the outpost and activate its main power system.
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Scientists delight in the performance of the Aura satellite, launched in July to check the health of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Light rays, 10 billion times brighter than the Sun, are being used to probe the Tudor warship, the Mary Rose.
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By RICK CALLAHAN   Associated Press writer  OMEGA, Ind. -- Take a walk on a clear, dark night far from city lights and be prepared to be awed by a sky blanketed with stars of various magnitudes, the Milky Way's wispy arm and brilliant planets.
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Stargazers can catch a spectacular sight if they turn their eyes to the sky tonight. NASA officials say the Geminids will provide the best meteor shower of the year.
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By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 7--Virginians might catch a glimpse of tonight's unusual nighttime  launching of the space shuttle Discovery, if it lifts off as planned.
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For the first time ever, scientists are taking an incredible journey to the dawn of the universe
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Our atmosphere is home to many stunning optical phenomena; rainbows, lightning and fiery red sunsets to name but a few. For many, the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis
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Do you love gazing at a starry night sky?  Nothing you've ever seen on Earth could prepare you for the fantastic skies of some &quot;orphan stars&quot; just discovered by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the Universe.
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Telescopes aboard the Hinode satellite have been returning some of their first results.
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Text of report by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Shenyang, 18 Feb (Xinhua) - When the evening lights were lit, there was a rich display of lights and colours.
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A Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the Northern Lights blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.