NASA's PlanetQuest website allows you to keep track of the discovery of exoplanets. Need a new setting for that epic space opera you are writing during November's novel in one month project?

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George Tarsoudis is a amateur astronomer who specializes in photographing our Moon and the other bodies in our Solar System. Some very good stuff here!

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Dark Roasted Blend takes a look at the Soviet version of the shuttle. They have a very nice selection of pictures, but don't show the ultimate fate of some of the test vehicles: stranded in a foreign land or converted into a theme park attraction. more...

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Via Dark Roasted Blend, a great collection of space art from Russian, America and more!

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Given the Moon's lower gravity, future missions will have to be careful that their own rocket plumes don't cause trouble for bases, supplies or scientific instruments.

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In the evening sky, Mars is getting quite bright. It'll never get "as big as the Moon" as that internet tall tale that circulates now and again claims, but now is the time for some good views.

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What would be a good method for building a base on the Moon or Mars? Most concepts involve rigid structures. However, as Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis I has proved (using technology originally developed by NASA), inflatables might be the answer. Here's a concept for such a lunar base, soon to undergo testing in some harsh Earth environments.

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Probably the only thing about HDTV that has gotten me interested in the technology: stunning images of our Moon and planet taken by Japan's Kaguya orbiter!

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