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March 15, 2010 | On March 7th, the European orbiter Mars Express had a close encounter with a little moon about which scientists have big questions.
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March 17, 2010 | Is our solar system’s Oort Cloud in danger of being stirred up by a passing star? A fresh analysis of Hipparcos observations argue that the answer is most likely “yes” — but not for another 1.4 million years.
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March 15, 2010 | Day in, day out, the radio antennas of NASA’s “Deep Space Network” handshake with dozens of spacecraft across the solar system. Now the network’s three stations are getting improvements that will keep them operating for decades.
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March 19, 2010 | After a couple of relatively dormant years, the Sun is showing signs of major activity again.
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January 1, 2010 | Vesta was at opposition on February 18, 2010, and it shines at magnitude 7 or brighter through mid-May.
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November 12, 2008 | Spectacular Saturn is now rising shortly after dark. Click here to find printable data on the positions of Saturn’s rings and planets.
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February 25, 2010 | What a difference a month makes! The lengthening days, together with a switch to daylight time, mean that the evening constellations are changing rapidly. So use this easy-to-follow audio tour to figure out what’s what. Host: S&T’s Kelly Beatty. (6.5MB MP3 download: running time: 6m 52s)
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January 25, 2010 | Mars is receding from Earth, but it’s still a fine, though small, target for telescopes.
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This Week’s Sky at a Glance
March 19, 2010 | The Moon pairs with the Pleiades and then runs under the arc of Castor, Pollux, and Mars this week. Saturn comes to opposition. And as spring begins, Sirius leaves the meridian behind.
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March 16, 2010 | On March 15th a distinguished panel discussed the future of human spaceflight at New York’s Hayden Planetarium.
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