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Astronomy and Science News
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What do you know about the week in science and space news? Take MSNBC.com's weekly quiz and see how much you remember.
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Telescope mirror made from lunar dust might compel moon mission.
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NASA orbiter finds widespread evidence rocks altered by water on early Mars.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has begun to use its motorized rasp tool to grind into the hard ice on Mars.
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A known star has been rediscovered as the second brightest in the galaxy.
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NASA needs worker urine to develop a anew space toilet.
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Magnetic fields build up in galaxies much faster than previously thought, a new study found.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully used its rasp and scoop to collect samples of Martian ice.
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Bucknell professors predicted an important planetary observation.
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College students wrote messages to intelligent life on other worlds.
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NASA's money problems may delay a new moon spaceship past 2013.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may swallow a smaller storm.
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The best meteor show of the summer comes during the second week of August.
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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft makes movie of moon transiting Earth.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will scoop up another test sample of ice.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Space elevator enthusiasts gather to assess how far they've risen on what they hope will be a radically new path to orbit and beyond.
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Anyone gazing at the summer night sky for even a short length of time is likely to spot a few "shooting stars" darting across the sky.
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The XMM-Newton discovered the one that everyone missed.
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A NASA spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, creating an alien’s-eye view of our world.
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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Thursday announced that Rob Strain will be the next center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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Students from the STARBASE Atlantis Naval Air Station education program in Corpus Christi, Texas, will participate in a live in-flight education downlink with the International Space Station on Wednesday, July 23, from 9:15 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. CDT.
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The grants will focus on improving science and engineering education.
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Students from the STARBASE Atlantis Naval Air Station education program in Corpus Christi, Texas, will participate in a live in-flight education downlink with the International Space Station on Wednesday, July 23, from 9:15 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. CDT.
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