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11.24.09

The Dubai Airshow As Seen From Orbit

By Paul Adams Posted 11.18.2009 at 5:02 pm 1 Comment

Dubai Airshow 2009 : courtesy GeoEye (See it bigger!)

Our friend the GeoEye-1 satellite, which tirelessly photographs the world at half-meter resolution from its constant orbit, swung by the Dubai Airport the other day and took this snap of the Dubai Airshow, in progress this week.

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Hubble's Ten Most Significant Discoveries

PopSci offers up the ten most important scientific discoveries that the Hubble made possible, and the amazing images to go with them

By Stuart Fox Posted 05.26.2009 at 4:10 pm 1 Comment

After astronauts fixed the lens on the Hubble space telescope, the satellite began sending back pictures of the cosmos that left all onlookers in awe. The beauty of those images often overshadowed the legitimate scientific progress the Hubble enabled.

So, in honor of the Hubble’s final servicing mission, Popsci.com and Mario Livio, a senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and author of Is God A Mathematician?, look past the pretty pictures and count down the ten most important scientific discoveries that the Hubble made possible.

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