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This is the Arecibo message, created by legendary astronomer Frank Drake in 1974. Of course, it's still competing with all the TV and radio signals we're constantly emitting...but at least this interstellar communication has a touch of dignity, you know? The message was created for the dedication of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which remains the most powerful radio telescope in the world.
This is the binary message we sent out to aliens 38 years ago
Jelly on Both Sides
When your slice of bread falls on the floor, everyone anxiously looks to see if it landed jelly side up or jelly side down.
Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't famous just for his contributions to the field of astrophysics. His face is also plastered across countless rage comics as the "We're dealing with a badass over here" guy . So how does Tyson feel about his memetic fame?
Neil deGrasse Tyson admits it was creepy to discover he was a meme
A light seen from the International Space Station, intentionally 'flashing' at astronaut Don Pettit. Picture credit: Don Pettit, courtesy of the San Antonio Astronomical Association
Amateur Astronomers Flash the Space Station
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The saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder means that what we see is subject to our perspective. Take our planet for example.How Dark Matter Messes with Our Galaxy [Video]: Scientific American
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Poor little Pluto.NASA Orbiter Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion
A dune in the northern polar region of Mars shows significant changes between two images taken on June 25, 2008 and May 21, 2010 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz./JHUAPL › Full image and caption
Cassini Chronicles the Life and Times of Saturn's Giant Storm
New images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a year. These new full-color mosaics and animations show the storm from its emergence as a tiny spot in a single image almost one year ago, on Dec. 5, 2010, through its subsequent growth into a storm so large it completely encircled the planet by late January 2011. The monster tempest, which extended north-south approximately 9,000 miles (15,000 kilometers), is the largest seen on Saturn in the past two decades and is the largest by far ever observed on the planet from an interplanetary spacecraft.
In 2002, Thad Roberts was a 25-year-old intern at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Astronomers have just discovered the first "circumbinary planet." Like Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films, this strange world, labeled Kepler-16b, orbits two closely spaced suns. What would such a planet be like?
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The upside is that we still have some time before all the energy is sucked out of the universe. So all the brainstorming at a conference in Florida this past weekend about space travel in the 22nd century was not for naught. The purpose of the 100-Year Starship Symposium was to get a hall full of scientists imagining a trip to another solar system.
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While many welcome the prospect of making contact with intelligent aliens, theologians worry about the implications, leading Christian thinkers to ask at the 100 Year Starship Symposium if Jesus also died for the salvation of aliens. According to Weidemann, a professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum, the death of Christ, some 2,000 years ago, was designed to save all creation, leading the scientists to ask 'Did Jesus die for Klingons too?'logy Magazine
Scientists have proposed a new theory about how the Moon is able to maintain an ionosphere.When NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory — scheduled to lift-off from Cape Canaveral later this week — touches down on the Red Planet in August of 2012, the one-ton probe will be the largest and most complex piece of unmanned machinery ever to land on another world.