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Endeavour s Starry Night

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Brothers in Arms

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Brothers in Arms The STS-134 crew pose for a group photograph shortly after landing aboard the space shuttle Endeavour at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 1, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. From left are European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori and NASA astronauts Gregory H. Johnson, [...]

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The Final Voyage

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : The Final Voyage Space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-134 mission made its final landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 1, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour, completed a 16-day mission to outfit the International Space Station. Endeavour spent 299 days in space and traveled more [...]

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Zooming in on the spiral galaxy NGC 6744

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Endeavour’s Final Journey Home

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Endeavour’s Final Journey Home A vapor trail follows space shuttle Endeavour as it approaches Runway 15 on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the final time. Endeavour landed at 2:35 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, wrapping up the STS-134 mission. During the 16-day [...]

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Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes Why is the Earth moving in the above video? Source : Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes

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Over the Earth

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Over the Earth Earth’s atmosphere and a starry sky just off the port wing of the docked space shuttle Endeavour are the subject of this image photographed by the Expedition 28 crew, while the shuttle was docked with space station on the STS-134 mission. Endeavour and the STS-134 crew undocked from [...]

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Oh, deer

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Oh, deer One of the nice things about going observing is that the trip involves visiting a secluded portion of wilderness, albeit one with hot meals, indoor plumbing, high-speed internet, and soft beds. It’s the best of both worlds! With the short nights of summer, I have some extra time to [...]

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Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A

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Docked One Last Time

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Docked One Last Time Backdropped by a night time view of the Earth and the starry sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is photographed docked at the International Space Station on May 28, 2011. The STS-134 astronauts left the station the next day on May 29, after delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer [...]

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The Last Panorama of the Spirit Rover on Mars

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : The Last Panorama of the Spirit Rover on Mars This is the last thing that the Spirit rover on Mars ever saw. Source : The Last Panorama of the Spirit Rover on Mars

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Another View

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Another View A fish-eye lens attached to an electronic still camera was used to capture this image of NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff during the mission’s fourth STS-134 spacewalk. During the spacewalk, Chamitoff and fellow astronaut Michael Fincke stowed the 50-foot-long boom and added a power and data grapple fixture to make [...]

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Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. Source : Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning

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The Mileage of Light

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Final Spacewalk for STS-134

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Final Spacewalk for STS-134 NASA astronaut Michael Fincke worked outside the station during the fourth and final spacewalk of the STS-134 mission, which lasted more than 7 hours. Fincke and fellow astronaut Greg Chamitoff completed the primary objectives for the spacewalk, including stowing the 50-foot-long boom and adding a power and [...]

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Otherworldly Pas De Deux

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Otherworldly Pas De Deux With components of the International Space Station in the view, NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and Michael Fincke are pictured during the STS-134 mission’s third spacewalk. They coordinated their shared activity with NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, who stayed in communication with the pair and with Mission Control...

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Finally back at the telescope

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Finally back at the telescope Tonight I’ve been observing at the McDonald Observatory. It’s been 13 months since I’ve last sat at the controls of a telescope to do some research. I think this is the longest interval I’ve gone without using a telescope since I started graduate school in the [...]

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eso1118a

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Messier Marathon

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Hotspot in the hot seat

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Hotspot in the hot seat The Hawaiian archipelago, and its chain of active and extinct volcanoes, has long been viewed as a geological curiosity. While most volcanoes arise at the boundaries of shifting tectonic plates, the Hawaiian chain lies smack in the middle of the Pacific plate, nowhere near its borders. [...]

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Expedition 28 Crew Departs Star City

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Expedition 28 Crew Departs Star City Expedition 28 crew members–Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa, left, Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov, center, and Flight Engineer Mike Fossum–answer reporters’ questions during a press conference held on the grounds of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in Star City, Russia....

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Supernova Sonata

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Supernova Sonata To create a sonata from supernovae, first you have to Source : Supernova Sonata

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Burning

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Burning Because of the absence of gravity, fuels burning in space behave very differently than they do on Earth. In this image, a 3-millimeter diameter droplet of heptane fuel burns in microgravity, producing soot. When a bright, uniform backlight is placed behind the droplet and flame and recorded by a video [...]

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Zooming in on the brilliant star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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We Will Become Like the Gods We Once Feared

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : We Will Become Like the Gods We Once Feared Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, [...]

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Space Shuttle Rising

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Science Friday (Office Hours with Michio Kaku)

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Science Friday (Office Hours with Michio Kaku) Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of his office, where he writes his bestsellers and records his radio shows. The futuristic 1950s TV show Flash Gordon jump-started [...]

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Science Fridays (Office Hours with Michio Kaku)

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Science Fridays (Office Hours with Michio Kaku) Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of his office, where he writes his bestsellers and records his radio shows. The futuristic 1950s TV show Flash Gordon jump-started [...]

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New Endeavour for an MIT experiment

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : New Endeavour for an MIT experiment Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final mission, launched May 16, has successfully delivered MIT researchers’ Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) — an instrument designed to use the unique environment of space to search for antimatter and dark matter and to measure cosmic rays — to the International Space [...]

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Return to Earth

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Return to Earth The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and Italian Astronaut [...]

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Three Arches Above Utah

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Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano On May 21, 2011, Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano erupted, sending an ash plume 12 miles (20 kilometers) high and closing Keflavik Airport, Iceland’s largest. Ash fell on much of Iceland, with some areas pitch black at midday on the 22nd. This eruption is not expected to disrupt air travel [...]

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Spacewalker

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Spacewalker Astronaut Andrew Feustel reenters the space station after completing n 8-hour, 7-minute spacewalk at 10:12 a.m. EDT Sunday, May 22, 2011. He and fellow spacewalker Mike Fincke completed this, the second of the four STS-134 spacewalks, for a mission total of 14 hours 26 minutes. It was the 246th spacewalk [...]

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An Unexpected Flare from the Crab Nebula

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : An Unexpected Flare from the Crab Nebula Why does the Crab Nebula flare? Source : An Unexpected Flare from the Crab Nebula

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Exploring the Wonders of the Universe

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Exploring the Wonders of the Universe The newly-installed Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 is visible at center of the International Space Station’s starboard truss. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, is the largest scientific collaboration to use the orbital laboratory. This investigation is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and made...

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Io: The Prometheus Plume

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Io: The Prometheus Plume What’s happening on Jupiter’s moon Io? Source : Io: The Prometheus Plume

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All in a Day’s Work

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : All in a Day’s Work Astronaut Greg Chamitoff made his way inside the station as Andrew Feustel awaited his turn at the end of the STS-134 mission’s first spacewalk. The Endeavour astronauts completed a 6-hour, 19-minute spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday, May 20, 2011, retrieving materials experiments and installing [...]

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Planets, Endeavour at Dawn

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Planets, Endeavour at Dawn When dawn broke over Kennedy Space Center on Monday, May 16, Source : Planets, Endeavour at Dawn

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Not Your Typical 9-to-5

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Not Your Typical 9-to-5 Astronaut Drew Feustel works in the vacuum of space during the first of four spacewalks during the STS-134 mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. Working early in the morning of Fri., May 20, 2011, Feustel and Astronaut Greg Chamitoff successfully installed antennas for [...]

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The Paradox of Multiple Goldilocks Zones or "Did the Universe Know We Were Coming?"

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : The Paradox of Multiple Goldilocks Zones or "Did the Universe Know We Were Coming?" In second grade, my teacher made a statement that literally shocked me to the core. I have not forgotten it after all these years. She said, « God so loved the Earth that he put the Earth just [...]

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Endeavour at the International Space Station

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Endeavour at the International Space Station This image of space shuttle Endeavour, taken by STS-134 mission specialist Ron Garan on May 19, shows the craft docked at the International Space Station. Thus far during the 14-day mission, the Endeavour crew has installed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, delivered spare parts and is [...]

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Jessica Philippon, celle qui joue avec le feu

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Jessica Philippon, celle qui joue avec le feu La jeune chercheuse, soutenue par le CNES, travaille sur les petites explosions volontaires qui ont lieu sur la fusée Ariane au cours du vol, notamment au moment du largage de la coiffe. Crédits : CNES.www.cnes.fr Autor: CNESTags: jeune chercheuse jessica philippon pyrotechnie feu [...]

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A Journey Through the Night Sky

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : A Journey Through the Night Sky Majestic nebulae and stars of our Source : A Journey Through the Night Sky

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Spinning new materials in a thread

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Spinning new materials in a thread Researchers at MIT have succeeded in making a fine thread that functions as a diode, a device at the heart of modern electronics. This feat — made possible by a new approach to a type of fiber manufacturing known as fiber drawing — could open [...]

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25 ans de balises Argos au service de l’environnement

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : 25 ans de balises Argos au service de l’environnement Créée en 1986 par le CNES et l’Ifremer, la société CLS fête aujourd’hui ses 25 ans. Grâce à l’aide des balises Argos et des satellites, elle offre aux scientifiques et aux états du monde entier l’opportunité d’explorer et de...

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Endeavour’s Close Up

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Endeavour’s Close Up This image of the space shuttle Endeavour’s starboard wing was taken by the Expedition 27 crew during a survey of the approaching STS-134 mission prior to docking with the International Space Station. As part of the survey and part of every mission’s activities, Endeavour performed a rendezvous pitch [...]

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eso1105c

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NGC 253: Close Up

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : NGC 253: Close Up This dusty island universe is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in Source : NGC 253: Close Up

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[EN IMAGE] Io abrite un océan de magma

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Endeavour’s Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver

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TweetMagazine | astro-portail-star.fr : Endeavour’s Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver At 5:15 a.m. EDT today, Endeavour began the nine-minute Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, or ‘backflip,’ on its last visit to the Inernational Space Station. With Commander Mark Kelly at the controls, Endeavour rotated 360 degrees backward to enable space station astronauts Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo...

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