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CoRoT Mission
CoRoT, standing for Convection Rotation and planetary Transits, was a significant advancement for the ESA in the search for extrasolar...
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May 102 min read
Deep Impact
NASA’s Deep Impact mission was the space-related highlight of the year 2005 because, for the first time, a probe smashed into a comet to...
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May 104 min read
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory, formerly known as the Advanced X-ray Astronomical Facility (AXAF), was launched by Space Shuttle Columbia...
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May 102 min read
Venus Express
The Venus Express space probe reused parts of the design from the Mars Express and Rosetta spacecraft and was the first mission of the...
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May 103 min read
Stardust
The Stardust Mission was unique because for the first time, a space probe has collected dust particles from a comet and brought these...
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May 102 min read
New Horizons
The New Horizons mission, launched on January 19, 2006, aboard an Atlas V rocket, journeyed to Pluto, once considered the last planet in...
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May 93 min read
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is America's response to the European Mars Express space probe, boasting impressive technical...
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May 94 min read
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and is one of the most significant telescopes in the...
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May 92 min read
Dawn Mission
NASA’s Dawn Mission was a mission to examine the asteroids Ceres and Vesta. In fact, the mission was canceled in March 2006, but a short...
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May 92 min read
White Dwarfs
A white dwarf is formed when a star with a maximum of 1.4 solar masses dies. It consists of the hot core of the star, which has...
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May 95 min read
Mars
Mars is the last terrestrial planet and the fourth planet in our solar system. It is the most likely target for a manned space mission....
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May 93 min read
Brown Dwarfs
Due to the quantum mechanical degeneracy of electrons, brown dwarfs are compact astronomical objects of at least 13 Jupiter masses, with...
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May 93 min read
Black Holes
Black holes are among the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. Their gravitational forces are so strong that not even...
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Mar 17, 20193 min read
Kepler Space Telescope
The Kepler Space Telescope from NASA was designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The telescope is named after the...
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Mar 17, 20192 min read
Results of the Huygens Mission
The European Huygens probe, which flew to the planet Saturn on board the American Cassini probe for 7 years and entered the atmosphere of...
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Nov 4, 20094 min read
Interview with the Planet Hunter Geoff Marcy
1. No one else found more extrasolar planets than you and your colleague R. Paul Butlar, but the first extrasolar planet around a...
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May 12, 20086 min read
Interview with UFO researcher Stanton Friedman
1. Mr. Friedman, you are a physicist with a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in nuclear physics from the University of Chicago, and have...
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