[FPSPACE] FW: Sea Launch success / Hubble finds missing matter

[LARRY KLAES]

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>Subject: Sea Launch success / Hubble finds missing matter
>Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:53:03 -0400
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>        NEWSALERT: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 1552 GMT
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>POWERHOUSE SPACECRAFT LAUNCHED FOR NORTH AMERICA
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>A Zenit rocket blasted off and disappeared into a moonlit sky early today,
>launching a successful one-hour mission to deploy a 10,200-pound cable
>television broadcasting satellite to cover North America.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/galaxy18/
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>HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS MISSING MATTER
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>Although the universe contains billions of galaxies, only a small amount
>of its matter is
>locked up in these behemoths. Most of the universe's matter that was
>created during and just after the Big Bang must be found elsewhere.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/20missingmatter/
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>A PIPSQUEAK STAR UNLEASHES MONSTER FLARE
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>NASA's Swift satellite recently picked up the brightest flare ever seen
>from a normal star other than our Sun. The flare, an explosive release of
>energy from a star, packed the power of thousands of solar flares. It
>would have been visible to the naked eye if the star had been easily
>observable in the night sky at the time.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/20pipsqueak/
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>NEWLY UPGRADED TELESCOPE SEARCHES FOR ORPHAN STARS
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>Using new instrumentation, Case Western Reserve University astronomers can
>now view the night sky wider and deeper than before.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/20orphan/
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>SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS MISSING MATTER</a>
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>STAR UNLEASHES MONSTER FLARE</a>
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>TELESCOPE SEARCHES FOR ORPHAN STARS</a>
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