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Pictures of China's first lunar probe Chang'e-1

China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed in the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise

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The circumlunar satellite Chang'e-1 blasted off on a Long March3A carrier rocket at 6:05 p.m. from the No. 3 launching tower in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center of southwestern Sichuan Province

China launches 1st lunar orbiter successfully

China launched its first lunar orbiter on Wednesday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. This marks the nation's first step towards realizing its dream of exploring the moon.

The orbiter and its carrier rocket left the ground at 6:05pm local time as scheduled.

The moon orbiter, Chang'e One, is named after a legendary Chinese fairy who flew to the moon. It headed for the upper limits of the atmosphere several minutes after launch, carrying with it the Chinese nation's dream of reaching and exploring the moon.

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Strange but True: Black Holes Sing

Authough sound cannot be heard in space ,it can some times be seen.

In the dark heart of the Perseus galaxy cluster, 300 million light -years from earth,a supermassie black hole has been singing the same note for 2.5 billion years.Its tone registers 57 octaes below middle C and according to scientists at NASA's Chandra X-Ray Center, is a resounding B-flat.YEt ,how is this possible in the vacuum of space?

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Hey, Microsoft... Firefox is everywhere!

Mozilla Firefox is the free software shaking up Microsoft's monopoly over web browsers. Here are the 10 funniest pictures of how Firefox is taking over the universe!

Firefox on outer space. The Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of the variable star V838 Monocerotis which lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. If you rotate the photo a bit, the star resembles the FIREFOX LOGO very much!

 

                 Here's how Firefox cookies look like

 

The Firefox Credit Card! No photoshop: Mr De Vood's bank offered the possibility to use a custom image on his bankcard... so he uploaded the Firefox logo.

 

                                            New Logo?

 

                         Even aliens prefer Firefox

 

                                     The Firefox Bus

 

 

                                 The Firefox condom 

 

The Real Firefox = great pairing of a geek joke + a super cute puppy

 

                      Windows Firefox Edition

 

                                     The Hungry Firefox

All Wet? Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet

1. A team of astronomers announced they have discovered the smallest and potentially most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet. Five times as massive as Earth, it orbits a relatively cool star at a distance that would provide earthly temperatures as well, signaling the possibility of liquid water.

2. "The separation between the planet and its star is just right for having liquid water at its surface," says astronomer and team spokesperson Stephane Udry of the Observatory of Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland. "That's why we are a bit excited."

Rocket-Powered 21-Foot-Long X-Wing Model Actually Flies

 

Andy Woerner and his crazy rocketeer friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. Yes, this is a real X-Wing powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings. It blasts off in California next week, and we talked with Andy about the project, and how they expect it will do. All the details and a full construction gallery after the jump.

The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

Stem cell team wins 2007 Nobel for medicine

STOCKHOLM: Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for their work on stem cells, prize awarder the Karolinska institute said on Monday.

The prestigious 10 million Swedish crown ($1.54 million) prize recognised the international team's work on introducing genetic changes in mice using embryonic stem cells.

Capecchi was born in Italy and is a US citizen. Both Evans and Smithies are British-born. Evans is a Briton while Smithies is a U.S. citizen. Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobels awarded each year.

The prizes for achievement in science, literature and peace bearing the name of Alfred Nobel were first awarded in 1901 according to the will of the Swedish dynamite millionaire.

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