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Video appears after clicking play. The rover is scheduled to touch down at 1:17AM eastern time, but confirmation won’t be received for about 15 minutes.

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3.7M views in one day. Where are the people?(Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

JMG reader Ray notes that this is the project of a high school student and that he includes LGBT rights in his pictorial history.

The text notes that most of the exo-planets are huge compared to the ones in our solar system because larger bodies are (for now) easier to find. Via the always fascinating XKCD.

You’ll only get one shot at seeing this in your lifetime. The annals of European astronomy burst with famous names: Copernicus, Kepler, Halley. Jeremiah Horrocks? Not so famous. But in 1639, the young Englishman became the first person known to witness one of the rarest events in the heavens: the passing of Venus across the face of the sun — …

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The world’s first private rocket is on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off early Tuesday morning on an unmanned supply mission. If the mission goes well, it could change space travel forever, marking the start of what could be a new era in American spaceflight. You could think of the launch as …

At 5am this morning Titanic director James Cameron broke the world record for undersea exploring when he reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the lowest place on the planet. “The impression to me, it was very lunar, a very desolate place, very isolated,” Cameron said. “My feeling was one of complete isolation from all of humanity. I felt like …

Did anybody see it? Tonight should be even better.

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NASA has released a super-high resolution image of the Earth.

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NASA reports: It’s the closest match to Earth that has yet been found. Recently discovered planet Kepler 22b has therefore instantly become the best place to find life outside our Solar System. The planet’s host star, Kepler 22, is actually slightly smaller and cooler than the Sun, and lies 600 light-years from Earth toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus). …

Los Angeles Times reports: With the roar of an Atlas 5 engine, NASA on Saturday began its boldest venture yet to another planet — sending the Mars Science Laboratory on an eight-month journey expected to provide more detailed information about whether the Red Planet is, or ever has been, hospitable to life.Its payload was the rover Curiosity, the largest and …