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This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows what lies near the sword of the constellation Orion an active stellar nursery containing thousands of young stars and developing protostars. Many will turn out like our sun. Some are even more massive. These massive stars light up the Orion nebula, which is seen here as the bright region near the center of the image. To the north of the Orion nebula is a dark filamentary cloud of cold dust and gas, over 5 light-years in length

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The space race is way over, and sadly so is the entire NASA Space Shuttle program as well. But just because we aren’t shipping astronauts up into orbit anymore doesn’t mean the US isn’t playing around still in outer space. Today actually marks the second test launch of a strange form of airplane slash rocket, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (FTVH2). Capable of cruising at over 13,000mph (that’s Mach 20 or 20x the speed of sound), the unmanned FTVH2 isn’t a new travel or research toy, but a military one.

The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight.

Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html

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SkyCube will take low-resolution pictures of the Earth and broadcast simple messages uploaded by sponsors.  After 90 days, it will use an 8-gram CO2 cartridge to inflate a 10-foot (3-meter) diameter balloon coated with highly reflective titanium dioxide powder.  SkyCube’s balloon will make the satellite as bright as the Hubble Space Telescope or a first-magnitude star.  You’ll be able to see it with your own eyes, sailing across the sky.  But SkyCube’s balloon isn’t just for visibility.  It will - within 3 weeks - bring SkyCube down from orbit due to atmospheric drag, ending the mission cleanly in a fiery “grand finale” that avoids any buildup of space debris.

Read more at : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/880837561/skycube-the-first-satellite-launched-by-you?ref=discover_pop

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