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Enceladus appears to hover beneath Saturn's rings in this image from 2006. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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This image was processed with color coding to illuminate the full extent of the plume, the edges of which are too faint to see well in most images. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Colorful Asteroid History As ESA's Rosetta spacecraft flew past the main-belt asteroid (21) Lutetia, the OSIRIS camera on Rosetta surveyed the part of Lutetia that was visible during this period –...
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Enceladus and its sister moon Tethys are shown in front of Saturn's faint E ring, lit by sunlight in this image from 2006. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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In this image from 2009, the face of Enceladus is lit by sunlight reflected off Saturn while the plumes are lit by the sun from almost directly behind. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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In this image, more than 30 jets can be seen, and more than 20 of them had not been identified before Cassini captured this image in 2009. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Bubbles in Carina The Carina Nebula, by ESA’s Herschel space observatory. The image shows the effects of massive star formation – powerful stellar winds and radiation have carved pillars and bubbles in...
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Arc of Venus When Venus transits the sun on June 5th and 6th, an armada of spacecraft and ground-based telescopes will be on the lookout for something elusive and, until recently, unexpected: The Arc...
View ArticleThe Long Rains & All Summer in a Day
The science fiction genre was always an inexact fit for the kaleidoscopic enthusiasms of Ray Bradbury. Closer to Borges and Calvino than Asimov and Heinlein, he was a carnival-barker poet of the human...
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"The Rocket" A junkyard owner dreams of taking his family to space in this 1951 tale. "Many nights Fiorello Bodoni would awaken to hear the rockets sighing in the dark sky," Bradbury wrote. "He would...
View ArticleI Sing the Body Electric
"I Sing the Body Electric" Technology isn't quite science, but the application of scientific insight -- and perhaps no technology is more alluring than the creation of a creature like ourselves, only...
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