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The red weed
Red space lettuce grown by astronauts in the International Space Station has turned out as normal as that grown on earth, and might now be grown to provide food for space travelers.
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Marsquake
Mars trembles with seismic activity, and the planet is more strongly magnetic than experts predicted.
Hundreds of quakes. Twenty-four were between 3 to 4 on the Richter scale.
And although the core of Mars solidified eons ago and the planet lost its magnetosphere, some areas of Mars remain highly magnetic.
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The fire on Apollo 1
January 27, 1967 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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In space, no one can hear you
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered electrically charged, carbon-bearing complex molecules shaped like tiny soccer balls in interstellar media ( Read more... ) -
Smokin'
The Cigar Galaxy (M82), a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. (This is NOT artwork ( Read more... ) -
Unbarred, spiraling
The unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033 ( Read more... )
