Mercury rise to the occasion
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Cappie Pondexter picked a big moment to hit a big shot. Pondexter scored a game-high 26 points, including a driving bank shot with 21 seconds to play, and the Phoenix Mercury defeated the Detroit Shock, 77-76, last night to force a deciding fifth game in the WNBA finals.
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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A NASA spacecraft will fly by the planet Mercury on Monday, the first visit to the sun's closest neighbor since the 1970s.
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Four hundred years ago this    week, a previously unseen star suddenly appeared in the night sky. Discovered    on Oct. 9, 1604, it was brighter than all other stars.
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Careful with that antique clock. It could pose a mercury hazard.
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A supernova spotted by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe more than four centuries ago - which changed the course of human knowledge - has just yielded a further discovery: the companion star that triggered the great event.
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Gabe:  I found a couple more really nice videos of the intro to the final round of the Omegathon. In case you missed it here's a couple different looks at it. This was easily the most elaborate thing we've ever tried to pull off at the show.
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The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planetâs turbulent past.
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A supernova spotted by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe more than four centuries ago that changed the course of human knowledge has just yielded a further discovery - the apparent discovery of the companion star that triggered the great event.
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The first music from Titan will be played on an alien world on the Saturian moon Titan on January 14, 2005 to commemorate the successful landing of the European Huygens
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. The space program really takes off after this. Compiled by Tony Long.
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By By Brian Hendrickson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun.
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A closer view of the Cassini image of the Huygens Probe after its successful release. The image was taken about 12 hours after the probe&#39;s release from the orbiter.
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The European space agency is celebrating the successful launch of its probe to Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan. The Huygens probe was launched from the NASA spacecraft Cassini which was orbiting Saturn and is due to reach Titan in mid-January.
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AUSTIN, Texas &mdash; An extrasolar planet about one-fourth the heft of Jupiter might have formed from the collision and merger of two planets, astronomers announced today.
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NASA's Messenger spacecraft has beamed back some surprising new data from the planet Mercury. Highlights include a weird crater nicknamed &quot;the Spider,&quot; a planetary tail of hydrogen atoms, and measurements that show giant Caloris basin is even bigger than researchers thought.
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By Jeff Hood, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.