Updated: 5:32 PM EDT (2132 GMT) -- August 14, 2000
Northern lights join meteors in dazzling sky display A bright burst of the aurora borealis over much of
North America briefly upstaged the Perseid meteor showers, an
annual light show that fills the night skies for much of
August.
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Hubble images reveal details of comet's breakup
One comet, made out of many ...
that's the surpising model revealed by comet LINEAR, whose dramatic demise was photographed late last month by the Hubble Space Telescope.
FULL STORY Scientists to capture atoms of antimatter
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• Space shuttle crawls to Florida launch pad • NASA, Alabama create national space research institute
• Launch center overflowing with space station parts • Second 'cluster' pair launched on mission to study magnetosphere • Cargo ship docks with International Space Station • NASA shoots for stars of the Hollywood variety • UFO hunters search NSA documents on Web • Official: Launch of Russian module remained in doubt until last moment • Planetary sweepstakes heat up • Scientists reveal nine new planets • Focus switches to NASA after successful Russian launch • Theory: Carbon dioxide, not water, formed Mars canyons • Russian cosmonauts to enjoy sun, sand and sangria • NASA mission costs soar in aftermath of Mars failures • NASA's take on 'Space Cowboys:' Relax, it's only a movie • First crew ponders issues of nameless space station • Hubble investigates mystery of a dying star • NASA, European Mars missions to overlap • Japan freezes plans for unmanned space shuttle • Huge new telescope to scan skies for ET • New Russian module takes control of space station • Transcript: Chat with Mars Arctic researcher Marc Boucher • Pulsars 'lying about their age,' astronomers conclude • Guyana accuses Venezuela of interfering in spaceport project • Abraham Pais, U.S. physicist, science historian, dies at 81 • Planet lovers campaign to save Pluto Express • Sea Launch rocket lifts off
The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch September 8 on an International Space Station assembly mission.
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