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Solstice Moon Illusion - (Found June 18, 2008 )

Sometimes you just can't believe your eyes. This week is one of those times. Check out the full Moon on June 18th and prepare to be deceived!
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/16jun_moonillusion.htm

NASA's Newest Space Telescope Blasts Off - (Found June 18, 2008 )

NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope left Earth today onboard a Delta II rocket. "The entire GLAST Team is elated," reports program manager Kevin Grady of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "The observatory is now on-orbit and all systems continue to operate as planned."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jun_glast2.htm

NASA Plans to Visit the Sun - (Found June 18, 2008 )

NASA has a daring new mission on the drawing board: Solar Probe Plus, a spacecraft tough enough to visit the sun itself.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/10jun_solarprobe.htm

Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star - (Found June 18, 2008 )

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted itself to smithereens. Although rings and spheres of material are common in the universe, this one is not like any ring astronomers have ever seen before.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm

Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection - (Found June 18, 2008 )

Imagine a billion-ton cloud of gas launching itself off the surface of the sun and then ... doing a cartwheel. That's exactly what happened on April 9, 2008, when a coronal mass ejection or "CME" pirouetted over the sun's limb in full view of an international fleet of spacecraft.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/27may_cartwheelcme.htm