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NASA faces a year 2010 deadline for completing the building of the orbiting space station and of retiring the shuttles.

Perhaps Pluto is only the first of many similar objects orbiting in the darkness far beyond the sun.

She had risen from her chair to gaze out the viewport, mesmerized by the scintillating dance of Earth's orbiting debris.

Ceres turned out to be just one of many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, rather than a proper planet.

Planets orbiting stars beyond the sun are labelled merely with the name of the star and a suffix letter.

Badenes's team examined archival observations and found a white dwarf and neutron star orbiting one another extremely closely.

The speeds of these birds can be tracked by orbiting satellites, by means of transmitters attached to the bird.

In August 2007, scientists announced the discovery of a star which might have once had an Earth-like planet orbiting it.

Clearly it would be of great interest if planets were discovered orbiting stars that lie closer to the sun.

Researchers need two very dense objects orbiting very close together, and they have to be able to detect what is going on between them.

For at least several years, Russia's rockets and capsules will provide the only crew transportation to the orbiting station.

He argued that the science behind the orbiting solar farms was little different to that of communications satellites.

As I'm sure you know, we found that there was a moon orbiting around an asteroid, first time ever that was suspected.

The constant in this equation is the same for any objects orbiting around the Sun, including planets, comets and artificial satellites.

Such jets are produced as orbiting matter falls into the supermassive black holes at the centers of every galaxy.

Since the stars are orbiting around the center of mass of the binary, the visible one will move in a wavy line.

One of three main instruments on the orbiting observatory, the AIA takes pictures of the sun in ten wavelengths every ten seconds.

At first, astronomers thought it might be a so-called "main belt comet" --a rare case of a comet orbiting in the asteroid belt.

And the question of age becomes pretty important as astronomers seek out potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars.

In essence, it would be a giant cable reaching tens of thousands of kilometres into space to an orbiting satellite.

The satellite was deactivated in 2005 as it ran out of fuel and was left orbiting Earth like a big piece of space junk.

Better still, it's located in what's known as a habitable zone, orbiting Gliese at just the right distance to have liquid water.

After completing what state media referred to as a 'kiss' in space, both craft are now orbiting Earth together.

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: An American spacecraft orbiting Mars shows it is possible that the planet could someday support human life.

If this was true, then all planets and moons should be spinning and orbiting in the same direction as the sun.

That was when Caltech astronomer Mike Brown found a tiny, frigid world orbiting some three times further out than Pluto.

Bright north star Polaris stands above the peak in an exposure that also captures the brilliant trail of a polar orbiting Iridium satellite.

The tank had been launched in 2001 to provide spare coolant in case of a leak at the orbiting complex.

The Earth spins on an imaginary line called an axis that runs from the north pole to the south pole, while also orbiting the sun.

They return regularly to the surface (when the data is sent via polar-orbiting satellites) and are untroubled by surface ice.

Satellites orbiting round the earth have provided scientists with a vast amount of information about conditions in outer space.

This telescope has just recently found what many astronomers believe to be a black hole, after being focused on a star orbiting empty space.

Venus will be orbiting very close to Mars, which is highly unusual, adding a great deal of oomph to this charming situation.

Astronomers know of several objects that survived temporary capture by Jupiter and returned to orbiting the sun.

Earlier this summer, meanwhile, the Japanese Kaguya satellite was purposely crashed into the moon after having spent a year orbiting it.

Such dilemmas might be pondered one day by future humans living on a planet orbiting a cataclysmic variable binary star system.

Scientists at the American Astronomical Society meeting said that could pose a risk to any life orbiting dwarfs.

The camera that snapped this shot on January 29, known as HiRISE, is one of six instruments aboard the Mars-orbiting craft.

More likely to be a collection of millions or even trillions of small mirrors rather than a giant orbiting parasol.

This wall of garbage orbiting us all seems like a symbol of the great dilemmas facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

Artificial earth satellites orbiting the Earth to use 114 minutes a week. It around the earth 59 weeks, longer than 5 days or shorter?

He suggests that originally this odd couple was a pair of ordinary stars orbiting each other.

Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

To the church's dismay, Earth assumed its rightful place as one of several planets orbiting the Sun (see page 28).

It is in this sense that an astronaut orbiting the earth in a space capsule is said to be " weightless " .

Imagine you are an alien and while orbiting planet Earth, you are suddenly trapped inside the body of a human being!

He wrote that some of the tablets indicated the probable utilization of orbiting craft as well.

The cultural center of Western civilization has pivoted around the arts, with science orbiting at a safe distance.

It's a straightforward animation that shows planets and asteroids orbiting the sun, with waves of twinkles as discoveries are made.

You may be familiar with some of my work. It's currently orbiting jupiter's largest moon Taking high-resolution digital photographs.

The spacecraft is now orbiting the moon in an elliptical orbit that passes over the polar regions of the moon.

Twenty-three percent of those stars had small, rocky planets orbiting right in the range where the predicted "planet desert" should be.

A stellar system consisting of two stars orbiting about a common center of mASs and often appearing AS a single visual or telescopic object.

When images showing three planets orbiting this star were obtained in 2008, it was the first time exoplanets had been directly observed.

Reveling in her newfound power, Vosa took command of the cult, leading it from a decrepit citadel on Kohlma, a burial moon orbiting Bogden.

Orbiting the broken remains of the planet was the wreckage of countless Mandalorian and Republic warships.

At the time, rocket science was still in its infancy, so RAND's call for an orbiting space station was revolutionary.

To see two pulsars orbiting each other in a binary system is extremely rare in itself.

a theory of atomic structure that assumes an electron orbiting a nucleus can only be at certain energy levels.

As we gather here today in this historic, magnificent building, the 50th woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead.

The space station will be orbiting Earth for at least another five years, but probably much longer.

The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft captured this snapshot of the development of a coronal mass ejection (CME), an explosive sun storm.

The bully is a pair of supersize stars orbiting each other within a larger star cluster.

On the TV screen the sky lab could be seen orbiting round the earth in outer space.

As we gather here today in this historic, magnificent building, the 50th wom an to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead.

It is orbiting around the Milky Way and has had several close encounters with it.

The orbiting Chandra observatory is able to detect these X-rays and relay the data to Earth for study by astronomers.

NASA spacecraft began orbiting Mercury, becoming the first to fly around the solar system's innermost planet, the space agency said.

These wandering stars, we now know, are the other planets orbiting the sun.

above, as we approached, a swirling ball of greater-crested terns and black-tailed gulls, with Swinhoe's egrets orbiting around the outside.

The company shuttled a scientific payload to an orbiting space station.

The shuttle was essentially a hugely expensive freight service, a sort of ups orbiting the Earth.

Chinese space officials are already outlining future goals for the program to include construction of an orbiting Chinese lab.

The antihydrogen atoms are composed of a positron (an antimatter electron) orbiting an antiproton nucleus.

Sure we have some satellites orbiting Mars now, and three robots on the surface doing measurements.

Spectacular time-lapse animations of the stars orbiting within light-days of the galactic center can be found here.

Hill works with images of the Martian surface taken by rovers and satellites, as well as data from Earth-orbiting NASA instruments.

In each case, the neutron star is orbiting within the outer atmosphere of its supergiant companion.

In 2002, the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft spied evidence of a reservoir of frozen water near the planet's poles.

Images of the flare were recorded by an orbiting satellite called the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

The unmanned spacecraft docked automatically yesterday with an orbiting space station.

Thales Alenia is building the next set of 66 Iridium low-Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites.

They left the orbiting laboratory about 98 percent complete after 11 years of construction.

Winds over the oceans directly influence wave heights, and orbiting satellites use altimeters to regularly monitor both.

Some of the experiments focus on studying how orbiting in space can affect the human body and plant growth.

China has put a man in space and proved it can shoot down an orbiting satellite with a ballistic missile.

The Kepler orbiting observatory was launched with a simple mission - to find other Earths.

Hubble Marks Dr. J. : In November 2001, Hubble made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.

The dominant theory of planetary formation argues that each system started out as a cloud of debris orbiting a star.

Skylab , the United States' first manned orbiting laboratory, amassed a wealth of information about the universe.

That would be in time to avoid leaving the $100 billion orbiting laboratory operating entirely on automated systems.

Within five years, John Glenn was orbiting Earth, and less than a decade after that, we put a man on the moon.

If that dimming occurs regularly, astronomers can assume it's due to an orbiting planet rather than, say, a passing asteroid.

But as the planet begins orbiting to the side of and "behind" its star, its star-facing side comes to face the viewer.

Space agency officials now knew that it was possible to join two orbiting spacecraft.

Brightening would imply that the lighted-up side of an orbiting object is facing the Earth, as when sunshine reflects off the moon.

Kepler works by ferreting out tiny changes in the amount of light coming from a star as orbiting planets pass around.

Lorenz and colleagues calculated the amount of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan using radar data gathered from the orbiting Cassini spacecraft.

Just as most orbiting planets spin on their axes, so asteroids also rotate.

Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

Astronomers can scrutinize the movements of faraway stars, watching for the telltale gravitational tug of orbiting planets.

The unusual plates were photographed recently by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting Mars.

jolt electrons orbiting those phosphorus atoms into what is known as a Rydberg state.

During their journey, the two spacecraft will use a wide-field-of-view telescope to look for asteroids orbiting the region.

Russian, European and Japanese cargo spacecraft will continue their resupply and waste disposal flights to the orbiting laboratory.

Neptune, planet of inspiration, is now orbiting very close to Jupiter for the first time since January 1997.

That started the delicate process moving a giant solar power tower to another part of the orbiting outpost.

The all-important high ground will no longer be a Hamburger Hill but an orbiting satellite.

As a polar orbiting spacecraft, however, Metop sees Europe approximately only once a day.

One NASA scientist told BBC News that some scientists believe that nearly every star has Earth-like planets orbiting it [source: BBC News].

Like the solar system, the planets orbiting Gliese 581 have mostly circular orbits.

That shadow can be measured by orbiting radars and may one day help scientists improve early warning systems.

The star orbiting the black hole finally succumbed to the centripetal force generated by the black hole's infinite gravity.

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing.

They even expect to find quite a few planets orbiting pairs of stars.

Those stellar explosions can have lethal effects on planets orbiting stars even tens of light-years away.

NASA normally tries to avoid adding to the orbiting junkyard, but officials felt they had no choice in this case.

Some of the experiments focus on studying how orbiting in space can affect the human body and plantgrowgrowth.

New mysteries surround even the smallest satellites, most recently the apparent flying saucers orbiting Saturn.

These binary systems consist of a neutron star orbiting around a supergiant star.

Orbiting astronauts have even become clinically depressed and panicked at psychosomatic illnesses.

But the researchers say a similar technique could be used to find signatures of life on planets orbiting other stars.

Each of the four giant planets rules over a sizable brood of orbiting satellites.

Discovery undocked from the orbiting scientific outpost after re-stocking the space station, repairing its equipment and haul away trash.

So all six astronauts on the space station will almost certainly have left the orbiting lab by mid-November.

A whisper-thin veil of molecules at the atmosphere's outer reaches bumps into and slows down orbiting objects.

Heat, strain, topography and atmospheric emissions associated with volcanism are well observed by satellites orbiting the Earth.

That started the delicate process of moving a giant solar power tower to another part of the orbiting outpost.

Two of these sets of observations were made from the Earth, one from an ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars.

Still, we persevered and we eventually were able to spot the planets orbiting each massive star.

The Moon is a common planetoid in the solar system. It is much smaller than Earth. It is the only natural satellite orbiting around Earth.

The robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn has now captured another shot that dramatically highlights the ring's thinness.

Indeed, our galaxy is so huge that dozens of lesser galaxies scamper about it, like moons orbiting a giant planet.

He had dreamed the night before that his piano was "a rocketship orbiting the globe" .

The firm's ambitious plan was for mobile phones which work anywhere in the world thanks to its network of 66 low orbiting satellites.

The super-Earth COROT-7b may well be a chthonian planet, orbiting 23 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our sun.

Youve figured out an unknown location of a satellite orbiting the planet from a known location on the ground.

Russia's orbiting Mir space station ended its 15-year odyssey with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific.

The exercise is seen as key to China's ambition to build an orbiting station in the next few years.

The Nixon administration rejected NASA's post-Apollo plans for permanent Moon bases, orbiting space stations and flights to Mars.

Russia's orbiting Mir Space Station ends its 15-year odyssey with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific.

So for Europe's politicians, it means they'll finally be fulfilling their obligations for membership in this exclusive orbiting club.

In an operation broadcast live on Chinese television, fighter pilot Zhai Zhigang, 42, emerged from the orbiting the Earth to wave a flag.

NASA launched a series of eight orbiting observatories known as the Orbiting Solar Observatory between 1962 and 1971.

We already have twenty-four Navstar satellites orbiting the earth, making up what is called the Global Positioning System.

In February 2009, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a research spacecraft that crashed into the ocean shortly after launch.

The hot gas also emits X-rays, which are indicated here in blue, as observed by the orbiting Chandra Observatory.

Three astronauts are now aboard the still-incomplete orbiting laboratory, two American and one Russian.

However, black holes can be detectable if they interact with matter, e. g. by sucking in gas from an orbiting star.

If we started the first sets of PvP gear with asteroids orbiting the shoulders, in a couple seasons you'd be wearing Thrall on your head.

a counterweight is installed on the crankshaft to balance the inertia and moment of orbiting scroll during rotation.

The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites.

The logs also included near-misses in the clutter of space: old rocket-stages, blankets and foot restraints, all orbiting past.

The craft's four-person crew unloaded almost six tons of groceries, spare parts and air onto the orbiting international laboratory.

It was laden with food, fuel, spare parts, and much needed supplies for our orbiting outpost.

Explanation: When orbiting Saturn, be sure to watch for breathtaking superpositions of moons and rings.

Identifying such dips is a useful method of finding planets orbiting other stars, and studying their properties.

More than 400 have been located by looking for the wobbles in parent stars that orbiting planets cause.

though it is popular to speak of the moon as a dead world , an orbiting cinder , scientists are not so sure.

Aboard these orbiting craft, crews test new technologies, conduct research and launch and repair orbiting satellites and other craft.

in these television broadcasts , the world caught some brief , inside glimpses of life aboard an orbiting spacecraft.

The orbiting satellites shoot radio waves at Earth and listen for the echoes that bounce back into space.

I was thinking about mass produced spherical television sets that could be linked to orbiting camera satellites .

The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars-orbiting Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the above image in late July.

So the explanation of orbiting of the planets, orbiting of the moon and so on in is terms of these vortices, all seem very neat.

Orbiting the nucleus are negatively charged particles called electrons.

This is the first time that the idea of a kinetic killer was used to destroy low-orbiting satellites.

Scientists first confirmed that there were worlds orbiting other stars in the 1980s, though they did so indirectly.

China has the ability to conduct some space military operations. As it showed in 2007, the country can attack low orbiting satellites.

Sensors in your car tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can locate your car precisely at any moment and warn of traffic jams.

Three Chinese astronauts returned safely on Sunday after orbiting the Earth on board the Shengzhou-VII space capsule.

Each one is like a sun with a retinue of planets orbiting around it, and we can see places where stars are forming, like the Eagle Nebula.

After separating from the Ariane, the freighter will use its own thrusters to get to the orbiting outpost.

Both groups searched for the gamma-ray glow from dark matter in dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.

Planet-hunters anticipate that NASA's Kepler telescope will reveal an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.

It's currently orbiting Jupiter's largest moon taking high-resolution digital photographs.

But, while many flat Earthers have problems with the idea of orbiting satellites, Shenton navigates the London streets using GPS.

the quantum characteristic of orbiting electron in magnetic field is discovered.

The X-ray signature detected by NASA's orbiting Chandra telescope provides only indirect evidence.

All are trillions of miles (kilometers) away-three of them orbiting the same star, and the fourth circling a different star.

NASA's new Orbiting Carbon Observatory will help provide some of the answers after it is launched in January 2009.

The satellite is orbiting around the earth.

The shuttle is orbiting around the earth right now.

But occasionally, cameras orbiting Mars have caught glimpses of bright streaks on dark sand.

One reason is that the orbiting atoms would likely be superheated due to the intense gravity and would develop electrical charges.

The first Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star could be discovered within 4 years, US and European scientists said recently.

The plane is orbiting over the field, waiting for the signal to land.

NASA wanted to stockpile the orbiting lab in case private companies get delayed in launching their own cargo ships.

The larger antenna is for receiving GPS signals from satellites orbiting far above the earth's surface.

The country's long-term goal is to build its own space station orbiting earth.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.

How does it work, then, that we have found hundreds of exoplanets orbiting other stars?

In the above drawing, a scientific artist has imagined Eris and Dysnomia orbiting our distant Sun.

The debris is a collision threat to operational spacecraft orbiting Earth.

New material from the frantically orbiting white dwarf would quickly replenish the blown- apart disk, Strohmayer says.

There is machining error in electrical discharge machining (EDM) due to the electrode's orbiting.

Shuttle a scientific payload to an orBiting spacestation.

That little light is no star; it's a satellite orbiting the earth.

The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has discovered two Saturn-like planets orbiting a single star.

Your finances may be tight, but with Venus orbiting closely to Mars, you should find new sources of income quite easily.

In 1967, both men were assigned to the same Earth-orbiting mission, and both knew the space capsule was not safe to fly.

The European Space Agency's orbiting XMM-Newton observatory studied the black hole in the core of an active galaxy known only as 1H0707-495.

When traveling in space or orbiting round a planet, the feeling of weight which the force of gravity produces is gone.

I know, but scientists at UCLA and Tennessee State University noticed a strange ring of debris and dust orbiting a star.

orbiting the nucleus are much lighter particles called electrons.

The Earth-orbiting Kepler spacecraft was specifically designed to find planets outside our solar system.

The video was released only briefly by Soho, the European Space Agency's orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

It will deliver spare parts and science experiments to the orbiting laboratory.

The ring was found in infrared light by the Earth-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope.

Shows cats orbiting round the desktop.

Much of the imagery came from a space camera onboard the Nasa satellite Terra, which is orbiting 435miles above the Earth's surface.

When Planets run around and around in circles, we say they are orbiting, When people do it, we say they are crazy.

Still, at some point the mission will end, and the orbiting laboratory will be directed to plunge toward Earth.

Twenty incoming flights were stacked up overhead, and orbiting.

When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy . When planets do it we say they are orbiting.

Will our grandchildren spend their vacations on the moon, or their honeymoons in a hotel orbiting Mars?

The true artificial satellite is the mass of floating currencies orbiting the earth.

I like to imagine how a spaceship might be able to take advantage of this phenomenon, by orbiting it.

Japan has sent several satellites into orbit, while India has one orbiting the moon and China put its first man in space in 2003.

Gas at this temperature emits lots of X-rays, which Earth-orbiting observatories can detect.

Its constellation consists of 66 low earth-orbiting, cross-linked satellites and has multiple in-orbit spares.

Another striking alignment occurred last March in the view of humanity's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft.

In 2007 a Chinese missile destroyed an old weather satellite, creating a huge field of orbiting debris.

Let's pretend we're on the spaceship orbiting round the earth!

This would hinder operations of low-Earth orbiting, or LEO, satellites.

Orbiting spacecraft have shown a huge mountain on Mars called Olympus Mons.

Since then, the two scientists have discovered 65 of the more than 100 planets found orbiting other stars. Dr. Marcy and.

Four satellites orbiting around Jupiter.

Dawn will spend one year orbiting Vesta, then travel to the dwarf planet Ceres.

According to the electrode orbiting patterns, the scattered meshes were non-uniformly offset.

The two men would chase another object orbiting Earth, a satellite.

They still haven't found any Martian microbes, or telltale signs of alien biospheres orbiting distant stars.

Solar eclipse happens when the Moon, while it's orbiting the Earth, passes directly in front of the Sun.

The Gliese 581 system has been well studied by astronomers and comprises four - possibly five - planets orbiting a red dwarf star.

Orbiting nearly 600 kilometers above us frees it from the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere.

Astronomers have detected more than 400 planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system.

Infrared images, which were taken by satellites orbiting 700 kilometers (435 miles) above the Earth, revealed the below-ground structures.

The team also said they found a planet 7. 5 times the mass of Earth orbiting the star HD 181433 in 9. 5 days.

when completed in 2005 , " alpha " will be the largest space research facility orbiting our planet.

This sharp image, taken by the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, spans about 120 light years.

An artist's conception of Gravity Probe B orbiting Earth to measure space-time.

This is a measurement we obtained a few years ago from a Mars-orbiting satellite called Odyssey.

a linkup of two orbiting spacecraft.

Satellites orbiting the earth can transmit voices and video instantaneously from one point to another.

the Helios satellite orbiting the sun travels at Mach 227. 3.

Once captured, an atom begins on a spiraling path, orbiting more and more rapidly, until it is ripped apart very close to the nanotube.

But it's possible the beams could impact low orbiting satellites on rare occassions.

Since mankind began launching spacecraft in 1957, the space above Earth has been filling up with orbiting debris.

An artist's impression of Messenger orbiting Mercury.

An orbiting electron in an atom will have a magnetic dipole moment.