An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy

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Image credit: NASACXCNCSUK.J.Borkowski et al.
Image credit: NASA/CXC/NCSU/K.J.Borkowski et al.

This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the debris of a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth.


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China to launch space mission in late September

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(AP) -- China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.

Eat less meat to fight climate change: UN expert

Sep 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
People should cut their consumption of meat to help combat climate change, a top United Nations expert told a British Sunday newspaper.

Hurricane Ike ravages Caribbean islands as Hanna hits US

Sep 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Hurricane Ike lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands early Sunday and threatened to unleash its fury on the Bahamas, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna continued to batter the US East Coast. ...

High-resolution satellite launched in California

Sep 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(AP) -- A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California ...

Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops (Update)

Sep 05, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(AP) -- The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials ...