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  • NASAs Chandra explores hidden population of exotic neutron stars

    A major campaign using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other satellites has suggested that exotic neutron stars, magnetars may be more diverse-and common-than previously thought. Magnetars-the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation-are some of the most extreme objects known in the universe. When a massive star runs out of fuel, ...

  • Hubble reveals Ring Nebulas true shape

    New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula. The glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star is like a doughnut, scientists suggested. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. ...

  • Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope

    Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said. "Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," scientists ...

  • New Russian spacecraft reusable for up to five flights

    Russia's new reusable spacecraft being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said. The spacecraft's technical design has been finalised but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said. The new reusable craft is to replace the Soyuz carrier rocket and is expected to ...

  • Shapiro Obama hits reset button on national security

    View Photo Associated Press/Carolyn Kaster - President Barack Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a ...

Movie Review

Cop Land

I've heard too many people describing James Mangold's "Cop Land" as a movie about one good sheriff taking on a precinct of corrupt cops. Yes, that is part of the story, but it's not what the film is about. The good cop/bad cop is just the framework the movie uses to tell a tale of disillusionment, loss, and one man's harsh realization that what he looked up to all his life was wrong. The he ... ...

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  • Researchers to be living on the moon NASA

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - The moon is pictured above Earth in this handout photo courtesy of Col. Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency. REUTERS/CSA/Col. Chris ...

  • The Lede NOAA Predicts Extremely Active Hurricane Season

    2013 Atlantic hurricane outlook on Thursday, with a warning that the United States could be hit by up to six major hurricanes this year. The seasonal average is three. Oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Atlantic basin are expected to create stronger and more hurricanes, setting the stage for an ';above normal and extremely active'; season, said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal ...

  • NASA plans to snag asteroid tow it near moon for inspection

    PASADENA, Calif. -- Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden on Thursday inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to ...

  • NASA is trying to lasso an asteroid for closer study

    PETALUMA, California -- "What do you want, America? Do you want an asteroid? If you want it, I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down for you," promises the US space agency's latest project, channeling Jimmy Stewart's famous moon speech in the the classic romance "It's a Wonderful Life." OK, that wasn't the exact wording. The reasoning was more: ...

  • Once prominent swim coach gets 7 years for sex abuse

    ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he ...

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