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07 February 2008
Are we sending a bit too much information into the cosmos?
On Monday (February 4, 7 pm EST) NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) sent a transmission toward the North Star, Polaris. The transmission sent was the song "Across the Universe" by the Beatles intended for any sufficiently advanced extra terrestrial life to listen to. Although this is a nice gesture and may nurture Beatles fans beyond [...]
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04 January 2008
Quadrantid Meteor Shower Researched by NASA and Google
Since Google and NASA have recently joined hands, the merger has become a major asset to space research due to the successful combination of ideas and plans. The Quadrantid Meteor Shower is just one primary example of this success–a meteor shower that produced over 100 meteors per hour. This peak shower began around 020 UTC [...]
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