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Pluto's white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain captured by Hubble

— 7 Feb 2010 16:56 | Astronomy

NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy, mottled, dark molasses-coloured world undergoing seasonal surface colour and brightness... — full story

Pluto's white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain captured by Hubble

The stars behind the curtain

— 4 Feb 2010 10:35 | Astronomy

NGC 3603 is a starburst region: a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula's extended clouds of gas and dust. Located 22 000 light-years away from the Sun, it is the closest region of this kind known in our galaxy, providing... — full story

The stars behind the curtain

Leaves whisper their properties through ultrasound

— 4 Feb 2010 10:32 | Biology

The water content of leaves, their thickness, their density and other properties can now be determined without even having to touch them. A team of researchers from the CSIC Institute of Acoustics and the Agri-Food Research and Technology Centre... — full story

Leaves whisper their properties through ultrasound

Craters young and old in Sirenum Fossae

— 4 Feb 2010 10:09 | Astronomy

The Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera has imaged craters both young and old in this view of the Southern Highlands of Mars. Part of the Sirenum Fossae region in the Southern Highlands, the area in this image is centred at about 28 S... — full story

Craters young and old in Sirenum Fossae

Apple launches iPad

— 28 Jan 2010 11:21 | Technology

Apple introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. iPad's responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch... — full story

Apple launches iPad

Black hole hunters set new distance record

— 28 Jan 2010 08:43 | Astronomy

The stellar-mass black holes found in the Milky Way weigh up to ten times the mass of the Sun and are certainly not be taken lightly, but, outside our own galaxy, they may just be minor-league players, since astronomers have found another black... — full story

Black hole hunters set new distance record

Mars rover Spirit starts a new chapter

— 27 Jan 2010 11:38 | Astronomy

After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts... — full story

Mars rover Spirit starts a new chapter

The first of many asteroid finds for WISE

— 23 Jan 2010 09:25 | Astronomy

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light. The near-Earth object,... — full story

The first of many asteroid finds for WISE

On the trail of a cosmic cat

— 20 Jan 2010 16:17 | Astronomy

Few objects in the sky have been as well named as the Cat's Paw Nebula, a glowing gas cloud resembling the gigantic pawprint of a celestial cat out on an errand across the Universe. British astronomer John Herschel first recorded NGC 6334 in... — full story

On the trail of a cosmic cat

Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets

— 5 Jan 2010 15:29 | Astronomy

'These observations contribute to our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve from the gas and dust disks that give rise to both the stars and their planets,' said William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Centre in Moffett Field,... — full story

Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets
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