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NASA Science News presents "Feature Stories", where you can sit back, relax, and enjoy an in-depth look at ongoing research - or just read a story that's fun. |
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| No. | Field | Date | Title |
| 8. | Astronomy - history | June 22, 1999 | The Great Meteor Storm of 1833 - Read a charming, first-hand account of the meteor shower that marked the discovery of the Leonids and created a new branch of astronomy. |
| 7. | Astrobiology | May 21, 1999 | Astrobiology's Most Wanted: Giordano Bruno - The story of Giordano Bruno, a man who lived 400 years ago, who believed in other stars, other planets, other life on those planets, and who died for his heresy. |
| 6. | Astrobiology | May 21, 1999 | The Sagan Criteria for Life Revisited -Would we know life if we saw it? What is essential to life, and what is just characteristic of life as we know it? Organic compounds seem to be a key, and they are turning out to be more common than was once expected. |
| 5. | Astrophysics | Apr 20, 1999 | It takes more than one kind of telescope to see the light - How come we can't build a telescope that can see all kinds of light at once, from radio to visible to gamma-rays? For the same reason people can see visible light with their eyes; yet can't see radio waves. Find out what astronomers need to do to "see" the universe in all the kinds of light it produces. |
| 4. | Astrophysics | Sep 21, 1998 | Looking for Pulsars in the Fast Lane - Scientists are looking for bizarre, short-lived, powerhouse stars that burst with some of the brightest energy in the universe. Using the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, they hope to find some of the few that may exist. |
| 3. | Astrophysics | Sep 9, 1998 | Why did the supernova change colors? - SN 1993J was seen to be one kind of massive explosion, but then seemed to morph into a distinctly different kind. Scientists using NASA's Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, launching in January '99, think they can discover why. |
| 2. | Physics | Sep 4, 1998 | A Field of Martian Dreams - In the home run race of '98, Sammy Sosa is in the lead on the Red Planet |
| 1. | Astrophysics | Aug17, 1998 | How hot is the Crab? - NASA's next Great Observatory takes aim at the Crab Nebula pulsar |
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