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On Sept. 16, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will host more than a dozen robots and their creators to showcase advanced robotics technology from across the nation. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Observations of 1 Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a "mini planet," and may contain large amounts of pure water ice beneath its surface. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

This week's review contest winner covers digital camera astrophotography from cover to cover...

The Gemini Observatory has released a pair of images that capture the dynamics of two very different interactions in space. One is a cold, dark dust cloud that resembles an ethereal-looking Chinese dragon. The other shows a distant duo of galaxies locked in a knot-like embrace that could portend the long-term future of our own Milky Way galaxy. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

The pictures from MESSENGER’s Aug. 2 flyby of Earth are in – and they are spectacular! The collection includes “natural” color and infrared views of North and South America; a peek at the Galapagos Islands through a break in the clouds; and a movie of the rotating Earth, taken as MESSENGER sped away from its home planet. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

A Beautiful Conjunction this Morning

A speeding, superdense neutron star somehow got a powerful "kick" that is propelling it completely out of our Milky Way Galaxy into the cold vastness of intergalactic space. Its discovery is puzzling astronomers who used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope to directly measure the fastest speed yet found in a neutron star. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Hubble Makes Movie of Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

BERKELEY, CA – What is the mysterious dark energy that's causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate? Is it some form of Einstein's famous cosmological constant, or is it an exotic repulsive force, dubbed "quintessence," that could make up as much as three-quarters of the cosmos? Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Dartmouth College believe there is a way to find out. <i>This article is too long for translations on our system - Ed. </i>

Research published in the journal Space Weather warns that massive gaps in our understanding and monitoring of space weather will effectively block US plans for a manned mars space mission. The study, led by University of Warwick researcher Dr Claire Foullon, draws on work that Dr Foullon and colleagues carried out for the European Space Agency on radiation hazards and space weather. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Even one volume of The Night Sky Observer’s Guide would be too much for your knapsack and both volumes together could just about counterweight your 6" refractor, so what's the mass appeal of these deep sky hunter's tools?

A novel 3D optical sensing system with real-time processing has been developed which is capable of scanning a target at very high speeds (greater than 500,000 3D points/second). <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Workshop participants take lucky images of a brand-new supernova <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth’s weather more than previously believed, researchers have found.

One of our best writers takes the recently reissued Orion 150 Maksutov out for a shake down cruise in this week's review contest winner...