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Aircraft engineers have incorporated a large number of holes in the research aircraft HALO (High Altitude and Long Range), a Gulfstream G 550. Through these openings, researchers can take samples in the highest layers of the atmosphere and analyse them immediately. This DLR webcast presents the latest research aircraft in DLR's fleet.

ESA, together with the UK Space Agency, the Italian space agency and industry, will be exhibiting its wide range of activities in a dedicated Space Zone at the Farnborough International Air Show during 19–25 July.

On the Planetary Society web site: Where Should We Go in Space? Tell Bill Nye During a Live Ustream Chat

NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provide viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.

A piece of NASA history landed at the Glenn Research Center's Visitor Center, now located at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The Apollo Command Module, used for the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, was moved successfully from Glenn to the Science Center on Tuesday, June 22. The module will be the focal point of the Visitor Center, which includes space and aeronautics artifacts, models and interactive experiences. The move was carefully planned to protect and preserve the module, which weighs 12,800 pounds and is more than 11 feet tall and 13 feet wide. The module is on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Image Credit: NASA

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.

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What's happened to the sky?

There is a view that the Sun is in an abnormal state as evidenced by, for example, the lengthening of its usual 11-year activity cycle. But is this really true? This article considers the relationship between the Sun`s 4.6-billion-year history and the earth environment including the birth of life. Deepening our understanding of solar activity could also contribute to the solution to earth`s environmental problems.