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Fallout from Huge Solar Flare Sideswipes Earth Today
Space.com - May 18, 2013; 10:05 AM ET
The sun storm erupted late Tuesday (May 14) during a powerful solar flare — the fourth unleashed by a single sunspot in just 48 hours — and hurled a massive cloud of charged particles out into space at millions of miles an hour.
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Mystery of Moon's Magnetic Field Deepens
Space.com - May 18, 2013; 9:57 AM ET
The moon generated a surprisingly intense magnetic field until at least 3.56 billion years ago, 160 million years longer than previously thought, a new study reports.
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Yum! Curiosity Rover Swallows 1st Mars Sample, Finds Odd Bright Stuff
Space.com - May 16, 2013; 10:40 AM ET
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has swallowed its first tiny bite of Martian soil, after standing down for a spell while scientists checked out some strange bright bits in the dirt.
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Oops! The 5 Greatest Scientific Blunders
LiveScience.com - May 16, 2013; 10:23 AM ET
These stories serve to show how even the smartest among us can err, and that in fact to achieve a big breakthrough, big risks are necessary, which sometimes also involve big failures.
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Forget the Moon. Let's Go to Mars.
NationalGeographic.com - May 15, 2013; 8:04 AM ET
Buzz Aldrin says the Red Planet should be humankind's next destination.
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Giant Gas Clouds Found In Void Between Nearby Galaxies
Space.com - May 12, 2013; 6:53 AM ET
A never-before-seen interstellar network of gas between two nearby galaxies may provide the raw material needed to fuel star formation for billions of years, scientists say.
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Photos: 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Captured
Weather.AOL.com - May 11, 2013; 9:19 AM ET
A stunning solcar eclipse was visible for cities such as Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, on Friday, May 10, 2013.
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Mars Rover Curiosity to Drill Into Bumpy 'Cumberland' Rock
Space.com - May 10, 2013; 11:55 AM ET
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will perform its second-ever drilling operation soon, boring into a knobby section of bedrock dubbed "Cumberland," space agency officials announced Thursday.
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Studying Jupiter's Hot Spots
May 13, 2013; 8:01 AM ET The 'weather layer' on Jupiter has some interesting features. NASA takes a look at how these features work.
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