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Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole

11/21/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The IceCube Laboratory sits on the surface of the ice on top of the detector, collecting data from sensors under the ice. All 5,160 sensors that make up the in-ice array are connected to the lab via cable. (Sven Lidstrom,…

NASA photographs Pluto’s moon Charon

07/12/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
New Horizons LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) composite image showing the detection of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, cleanly separated from Pluto itself. The frame on the left is an average of six different LORRI images, each taken with (NASA/Johns Hopkins…

Colossal solar flare, strongest of 2013, shoots from sun

05/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a colossal X1.7-class solar flare erupting from the sun at 10:17 p.m. EDT on May 12, 2013 (Mother’s Day). It is the strongest solar flare of 2013 so far. (NASA/SDO) The sun…