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Centennial teacher to bring outer space to Ahwatukee (The Arizona Republic)
Was one of four Arizona teachers selected to attend NASA Space Academy. Read More

NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #5009 (SpaceRef)
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As the crust turns: Cassini data show Enceladus in motion (Science Daily)
Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn's moon Enceladus explain the q Read More

By JOVE! BFUHS, teacher win technology grant (Brattleboro Reformer)
WESTMINSTER -- Bellows Falls Union High School physics teacher Harvey Nystrom has been wanting to have his students rece Read More

ESA's Ice Mission Arrives Safely At Launch Site (SpaceDaily)
In what might seem rather appropriate weather conditions, the CryoSat-2 Earth Explorer satellite has completed its journ Read More

Cassini Shows Enceladus In Motion (redOrbit)
Image 1: On Oct. 5, 2008, just after coming within 25 kilometers (15.6 miles) of the surface of Enceladus, NASA’s Cass Read More

Solar System Shield (PhysOrg)
Water vapor in planet-forming disks may block ultraviolet radiation from destroying water and other important molecules Read More

How Earth Survived Birth: New Simulation Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the last 20 years, the best models of planet formation -- or how planets grow from dust in a gas di Read More

NASA's finds: too hot for planets, too small for stars (Houston Chronicle)
NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be sta Read More

Space search finds planets and mystery (Stuff)
NASA's impressive new planet-hunting telescope has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar Read More