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                        <title>NASA&#039;s Picture of the Future of Human Spaceflight</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/nasas-picture-of-the-future-of-human-spaceflight</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[NASA released a new interactive infographic that attempts to give a picture of future of human spaceflight activities and where NASA might be going. The new Space Launch system and the Orion MPCV figure prominently in going to future destinations such as the Moon, Mars, Near Earth Asteroids and even LaGrange Points.

In the interactive feature you can learn about the SLS and MPCV, along with spacesuits, deep space habitation and communications and more.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>A Swiss satellite to clean up space</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/a-swiss-satellite-to-clean-up-space</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[The proliferation of debris orbiting the Earth is an increasing problem for spacecraft, and it can generate huge costs. To combat this threat, the Swiss Space Center at EPFL has announced the launch of Pupil Research Briefs &ndash; Astro-science Briefs 
This Pupil Research Brief (PRB), designed by a team at the Centre for Science Education, supports the teaching and learning of astro-science at GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade levels. This brief includes: Collision course - Assessing the risk that&hellip;]]></description>
                        <pubDate>17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>Space Jumper</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/space-jumper</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[Felix Baumgartner is going from base jumping to space jumping.  He is preparing to jump from a balloon 120,000 feet (36.5 km) above the surface of the Earth, at the edge of space.  Baumgartner is famous for a record base-jump from the Petronas Towers, in Kaula Lumpur.  Base jumping involves jumping off a fixed object, liked a building, and opening a parachute on the way down &ndash; a risky business but not as risky as jumping from space.

Jumping from a high altitude balloon is not new.  The ESERO&hellip;]]></description>
                        <pubDate>14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>Vega rocket launched</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/vega-rocket</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[ESA&rsquo;s new Vega rocket has now been launched. It lifted off from the new Vega launch site at Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying nine satellites into orbit. 

Unlike most small launchers, Vega is able to place multiple payloads into orbit. In particular, it offers configurations able to handle payloads ranging from a single satellite up to one main satellite plus six microsatellites.

(Image credit: ESA)]]></description>
                        <pubDate>13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>VLT Takes Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/vlt-takes-most-detailed-infrared-image-of-the-carina-nebula</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[(Image credit: ESO/T. Preibisch)

ESO&rsquo;s Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged. This is one of the most dramatic images ever created by the VLT.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>So, you want a career in space?</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/so-you-want-a-career-in-space</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[Tom Lyons, ESERO-UK Teacher Fellow has written a blog on the National STEM Centre website.  This is tom&rsquo;s first blog of many and looks at the different routes for getting a career in space. Read Tom&rsquo;s blog.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>Help Astronomers Measure the Solar System!</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/help-astronomers-measure-the-solar-system</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[As the bright Mars-crossing asteroid 433 Eros makes its closest approach to Earth since 1975, astronomers around the globe are taking the opportunity to measure its position in the sky, thereby fine-tuning our working knowledge of distances in the solar system. Using the optical principle of parallax, whereby different viewpoints of the same object show slightly shifted positions relative to background objects, skywatchers in different parts of the world can observe Eros over the next few nights&hellip;]]></description>
                        <pubDate>02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>Is the Earth getting lighter?</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/is-the-earth-getting-lighter</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[There are factors that are causing Earth to both gain and lose mass over time, according to Dr Chris Smith, a medical microbiologist and broadcaster who tries to improve the public understanding of science.

Using some back-of-the-envelope-style calculations, Dr Smith, with help from physicist and Cambridge University colleague Dave Ansell, drew up a balance sheet of what&#039;s coming in, and what&#039;s going out. All figures are estimated.

&bull;	It&#039;s getting lighter, by about 50,000 tonnes in mass each year, but not due to space dust

Some factors include:
&bull;	Gains: Mostly dust (like an asteroid, above) falling from space, plus increased energy from increases in the planet&#039;s temperature
&bull;	Losses: Mostly hydrogen, plus some helium and a tiny amount of lost energy

Activity - finding space dust &bull;	Micro meteors and particles falling from space land on roof
&bull;	They are washed with rain water into water butt
&bull;	Run a magnet round sludge at bottom of butt
&bull;	Any iron rich particles in there are probably from space
Credit: Dr Chris Smith, Cambridge University]]></description>
                        <pubDate>02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>New super-Earth planet found that could support life</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/new-super-earth-planet-found-that-could-support-life</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[Astronomers say they&#039;ve discovered a fourth planet outside our solar system that could support life.]]></description>
                        <pubDate>02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                        <title>Watch online: Earth from Space &ndash; special edition</title>
                        <link>http://www.esero.org.uk/news/watch-online-earth-from-space-special-edition</link>
                        <description><![CDATA[Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Professor Volker Liebig, Director of ESA&rsquo;s Earth Observation Programmes, discussed Earth observation for the coming year. Watch online again here]]></description>
                        <pubDate>30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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