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TWO SATELLITES COLLIDE IN EARTH ORBIT!
"Experts are calling it an "unprecedented event." Two satellites have collided in Earth orbit. Iridium 33 crashed into Kosmos 2251 on Tuesday, Feb. 10th, approximately 800 km over northern Siberia." The Satellites were travelling at around 12 km per second when they hit. The debris cloud of more than 500 fragments is now being monitored along with all the other space rubbish in orbit around our planet. Click this link to see an animation of the collision paths of the satellites: (this item based on info from www.spaceweather.com)

==First Visible Light Photograph of a Planet orbiting another Star == NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first photo of a planet outside our solar system. The planet named Formalhaut b orbitsa star 25 light years away from us and is thought to be about 3 times the mass of Jupiter.

Star Trek's Deflector Shield Envisioned for Mars Mission
Read about how science fiction may have to become reality to protect future space missions from radiation.

= = =A Uniting Church Minister who finds exploding stars= Watch the ABC video online

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=Nasa Launches GLOBAL CLIMATE TIME MACHINE= Click the link to visit the interactive climate simulator from NASA