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The NASA Astronaut, Ms. Sunita Williams shaking hands with the Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Shri Kapil Sibal, in New Delhi on October 01, 2007. Sunita Williams blasts off for 2nd space odyssey
Baikonur: Indian-American record-setting astronaut Sunita Williams along with her two colleagues today took off for her second space odyssey on a Russian Soyuz rocket, which blasted off successfully f... (photo: PIB of India) Zeenews
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Honey bee on the net - insect - nature Bee pollen creating buzz as new 'superfood'
| Tweet | London, July 15 (ANI): Bee pollen, which may not be quite as tasty as honey, is being touted as the latest superfood. | Bee pollen is collected and processed from plants as the insects carry... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Newstrack India
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The Hoh Rain forest supports many trees and epiphytes. The ecosystems of the Olympics vary depending on elevation: the lower elevations are quite different from the higher ones. The Ecology of Disease
| THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these days — ecosystem services — which refers to the many ways nature supports the human endeavor. Forests filter the water we drink, ... (photo: Creative Commons / Kevin Muckenthaler) The New York Times
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Dana by Gustav Klimt, painted 1907. Private Collection, Vienna Gustav Klimt 'The Kiss' Google Logo Honors Artist's 150th Birthday (PHOTO)
| Google is paying homage to Austrian artist Gustav Klimt with a "Google Doodle" of one of his most popular paintings: "The Kiss." | Born on July 14, 1862, Gustav worked with gold leaf in some of his ... (photo: Public Domain / Conscious) Huffington Post
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This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space. Using observations from telescopes in space and on the ground, astronomers gathered the most direct evidence yet for this violent process: a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA's orbiting Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the summit of Haleakala in Hawaii were used to help to identify the stellar remains. A flare in ultraviolet and optical light revealed gas falling into the black hole as well as helium-rich gas that was expelled from the system. When the star is torn apart, some of the material falls into the black hole, while the rest is ejected at high speeds. The flare and its properties provide a signature of this scenario and give unprecedented details about the stellar victim. To completely rule out the possibility of an active nucleus flaring up in the galaxy instead of a star being torn apart, the team used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the hot gas. Chandra showed that the characteristics of the gas didn't match those from an active galactic nucleus. The galaxy where the supermassive black hole ripped apart the passing star in known as PS1-10jh and is located about 2.7 billion light years from Earth. Astronomers estimate the black hole in PS1-10jh has a mass of several million suns, which is comparable to the supermassive black hole in our own Milky Way galaxy. Huge solar flare shoots out particles at 3million mph as scientists predict weekend of powerful sunstorms
| This weekend is set to see a number of huge solar storms - just days after the largest flare of the summer so far. | A storm expected to arrive on Saturday morning and continue throughout Sunday wil... (photo: NASA / S. Gezari and J. Guillochon) The Daily Mail
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French gendarmerie officers serving in EULEX are seen on the Jarinje check-point on the border between Serbia and Kosovo, in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. The European Union's most ambitious police mission to date will take over the policing of Kosovo from the United Nations, after months of delay and protests on both sides of the ethnic divide. The force, known as EULEX, will have over 2,000 police and justice workers monitoring and advising Kosovo's authorities on tackling corruption and organized cr French arrest warrant for Equatorial Guinea VP
| PARIS — France has issued an arrest warrant for the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, a suspect in an investigation into the alleged misspending of public funds, a judicial official s... (photo: AP / Zvek) Springfield News-Sun
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