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Imagine a fully instrumented satellite the size of a half-gallon milk carton. Small low-cost satellite payloads, built mainly by students and hitching rides into orbit on Air Force and NASA launch vehicles, have been making recent history in successes many herald as a 'space revolution.'

O ile pogoda dopisze, wieczorem 15 czerwca (środa) będziemy świadkami całkowitego zacmienia Księżyca. To pierwsze z dwóch takich zaćmień, które będą miały miejsce w tym roku. Drugie nastąpi 10 grudnia.

Explanation: Click the arrow and watch an unusually long filament explode out from the Sun. The filament had been seen hovering over the Sun's surface for over a week before it erupted earlier this month. The image sequence was taken by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in a colour of ultraviolet light specifically emitted by helium. The explosion created Coronal Mass Ejections which dispersed high energy plasma into the Solar System. This plasma cloud, though, missed the Earth and so did not cause aurorae. The above eruption and an unusually expansive eruption that occurred in August are showing how widely separated areas of the Sun can sometimes act in unison. Explosions like this will likely become more common over the next few years as our Sun moves toward Solar Maximum activity.

Nieprawdopdobny postęp, jaki astronomia poczyniła w ciągu ostatnich kilkudziesięciu lat jest rzeczą oczywistą. Wiemy o tym, jednak dosyć trudno ten skalę tego postępu zobrazować. W 1980 znaliśmy "tylko" ok. 10000 planetoid. W 2010 - ponad 500000.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.

Astronomers have discovered carbon molecules, known as 'buckyballs,' in space for the first time. Buckyballs are soccer-ball-shaped molecules that were first observed in a laboratory 25 years ago.