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Hubble Telescope is down to one functioning camera  A workhorse deep-space camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down for the third time in less than a year, and scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration say only a fraction of its capability will be restored.
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THE CANON: A WHIRLIGIG TOUR OF THE BEAUTIFUL BASICS OF  SCIENCE   Natalie Angier   Houghton Mifflin. 293 pp. $27.
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US astronomers have discovered massive new galaxies evolving in our corner of the universe. This means that galaxy-forming processes thought to have ended eons ago continue relatively nearby
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Scientists want Internet users to help them sort through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies. In a Web statement Wednesday, astronomers asked for volunteers to help classify the galaxies, identifying them as either elliptical or spiral, and noting, where possible, in which direction they rotate.
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Description: Scientists exploring Mars via the rover &#39;Opportunity&#39; published 11 papers detailing the progress of the research being done in an area called Meridiani Planum.
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Astronomers say they have found some of the earliest galaxies, which will help to piece together the history of the early universe. Some suspect galaxies took longer to form than previously thought. By John Gartner.
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NASA's moonbase plan tackles lunar cement and inflatable living quarters; Virgin America planes play Doom; Novell could be banned from selling Linux. In Gadget Lab.
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UC Davis -- A new method for looking at the composition of comets using ground-based telescopes has been developed by chemists at UC Davis. Remnants from the formation of our solar system, the makeup of comets gives clues about how the Earth and other planets formed...
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IT IS THE SEASON for stars. What to most of us are simply pinpoints of light in a dark night sky are to astronomers much more. Dwarfs, subgiants, supergiants, single-line and spectroscopic double starsthe
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Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA Sept. 19
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Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night. It&#39;s the Geminids.
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This week: New photos may show liquid water on Mars, NASA plans moon base, city birds sing faster, ancient "curse tablet" found, and more.
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Are extraterrestrials attempting to contact earth? The thought that ET may be sending out radio signals from somewhere in outer space is creating a buzz and astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial
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com Staff. Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It&#39;s a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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Also: Big Bang not the only big bang. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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A team of astronomers from France and South Africa announced the first catalog of a new type of gamma-ray source, a dozen clouds of ârelicâ radiation from dead stars that reveal information about the energetic past of these celestial objects. These findings were presented on Feb.
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By MIKE SWAIN Science Editor  HERE is the world in all its wonder - captured from space in photographs as beautiful as anything from an artist's brush.   These remarkable pictures come from US space agency Nasa's satellite Earth observatory.