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October 09, 2014

Hubble project maps temperature, water vapor on wild exoplanet
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 10, 2014
A team of scientists including a University of Colorado Boulder professor used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel. The Hubble observations show that the planet, called WASP-43b, is no place to call home. It's a world of extremes, where winds howl at the speed of sound from a 3,000-degree-Fahrenheit dayside to a pitch-black nightside ... read more

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				Dark matter half what we thought A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way has revealed there is half as much of the mysterious substance as previously thought. Australian astronomers used a method developed almost 100 year ... more		Funding procudure for ICBM parts changes The U.S. Air Force is modernizing sustainment of intercontinental ballistic missiles through a centralized funding program for missile system parts. ... more

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WSU undergrad helps develop method for detecting water on Mars

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Opportunity Preps for Comet Siding Spring Encounter

Richard Branson says commercial space flight almost here

As spacewalks resume, change is coming to the International Space Station

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