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July 13, 2011
Millions of people are giving up their dentures for dental implants and now a new Xbox game will help dentists and their patients create the perfect smile.  credit: Ivanhoe
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July 13, 2011
This video sequence compiles data from Hubble’s observations of Neptune to show the blue-green planet rotating on its tilted axis. A day on Neptune is 16 hours long, and Hubble took images of the ...
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July 13, 2011
The STS-135 Flight Day 4 wakeup call was "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba played for Mission Specialist Sandy Magnus.
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July 13, 2011
A video recap of flight day 3 of the STS-135 mission of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station.  credit: NASA
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July 13, 2011
After four previous trips to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, it was time for the Shuttle to make one final service call to install new, advanced instruments, batteries, gyros and ...
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July 13, 2011
In addition to the magnificent blast, SDO detected a shadowy shock wave issuing from the blast site on the June 7, 2011 event. The 'solar tsunami' propagated more than halfway ...
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July 13, 2011
The crew wake up call begins flight day 4 aboard space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-135 mission.  credit: NASA
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July 13, 2011
The STS-135 Flight Day 5 wakeup call was "More" by Matthew West played for Mission Specialist Rex Walheim.  credit: NASA
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July 09, 2011
The space shuttle program’s closeout crew says goodbye.  credit: NASA
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July 09, 2011
Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off for the final time on STS-135 mission.  credit: NASA
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July 09, 2011
The final crew for the shuttle program suits up for the last bon voyage.  credit: NASA
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July 06, 2011
Observations of high energy jets in the plasma sheet of Earth’s magnetosphere provide key insights into the processes that accelerate and heat the plasma.  credit: ESA
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July 02, 2011
This animation illustrates an unexpected warm spot on the surface of a gaseous exoplanet. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope discovered that the hottest part of the planet, shown here as bright, ...
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June 30, 2011
This sequence starts with a wide-field view of the prominent constellation of Leo (The Lion). As we zoom in many fainter stars become visible as well as a few of the many galaxies in this part of ...
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June 30, 2011
By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet’s rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets in ...
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June 30, 2011
It’s a pain millions will feel. How a new surgery is scrapping away arthritic knees and helping to get people moving again.  credit: Ivanhoe
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June 29, 2011
The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a substantial coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7 that is visually spectacular. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back ...
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June 23, 2011
This animation shows how the remarkable merger event that created the galaxy cluster Abell 2944, nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster, may have happened. The red regions are clouds of very hot gas, ...
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June 17, 2011
The Hubblecast’s Dr J, aka Joe Liske, takes us on a tour of Centaurus A, a bright and dusty galaxy in the Southern sky. Hubble’s observations are the most detailed ever made of this ...
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June 17, 2011
Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is well known for its dramatic dusty lanes of dark material.
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