Supernova 2007uy in the galaxy NGC2770 was already several weeks old on January 7, 2008 when NASA’s Swift satellite took the image at left. The image on the right was taken two days later and shows Supernova 2008D as well. Far away on the day of Jan. 9, Earth time, a satellite telescope by the name of Swift, which happened to be gazing at the star’s galaxy, a smudge of stars 88 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx, recorded an unexpected burst of invisible X-rays 100 billion times as bright as the Sun.

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The Phoenix Mars Lander will examine the history of water and life on the red planet — if the landing goes safely. After a nine-month, 422-million-mile trip from Earth that began last August, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander will catch up to the red planet Sunday to begin its three-month science mission. Its mission is series of soil analysis projects that involve digging lightly into the Mars surface to study the history of water, ice and life potential in the planet’s soil. But before those soil analysis projects can even get under way, the Phoenix has to successfully land on the planet’s surface, which, as NASA knows by experience, isn’t a sure thing.

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Whether you embrace or scorn “American Idol,” the most efficient star-making phenomenon in entertainment history, can depend on the day. David Cook’s lopsided victory over David Archuleta on Wednesday night was an unexpected triumph of poise and maturity (Mr. Cook is 25) over ingenuousness and promise (Mr. Archuleta is 17). It reversed last season’s trend, when Jordin Sparks, an unformed talent with a bubbly personality and a big voice, won, and the older and less glamorous but far more talented Melinda Doolittle came in third.

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A STUDY has come to the alarming conclusion that, if inhaled in large quantities, carbon nanotubes could wind up being as, if not more, dangerous than asbestos. Whilst many might be thinking, “well, who would go around sniffing Carbon nanotubes?”, the fact of the matter is that they can be found in anything from electrical circuits, to processors, to pharmaceuticals and even face creams, due to their extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties.

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