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We're one step closer to finding out who could be the first humans to live on another planet. Mars One, the private organization planning to find and train a group of four astronauts to send on a one-way trip to Mars, has reached the third round of its selection process, and narrowed its shortlist down to 1 hopeful candidates. The group includes people from all over the world 39 hail from the Americas, 31 from Europe, 16 from Asia, 7 from Africa, and 7 from Oceania. Individual profile pages and video diaries show that they vary in background and age, from 2 Bolivian Zaskia, to 6 Pakistani Reginald, each expected to live, work, and die on Mars as part of a tiny outpost on an otherwise dead planet if they're successful in the program. Link

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Earlier this month, NASA published this video introducing its concept submarine designed to explore Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas on Titan, the remarkably strange moon circling Saturn. Even if it were possible for humans to go swimming in Titan's seas, it might not be advisable. Link

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NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory sends back very high-resolution images of the Sun in wavelengths from the far ultravioletwhere the Suns violent magnetic activity is best seenthrough to colors eyes can detect. Feb. 11 was the fifth anniversary of SDOs launch into space. For the past 183 it has observed star. To celebrate, NASA released this sensational video with just a few highlights from this incredible machine. Happy Friday! Link

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Reusable rocket lifts off from French Guiana Link

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Far away in a distant galaxy, there is a beaming face smiling back at us. Link

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From 2 to late 2 the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft revolved around planet while using its telescope to soak up relic radiation from the Big Bang known as the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB. Its goal, in effect, was to look back in time to just about 37 years after the Big Bang. Now NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), which worked closely with the ESA on the Planck mission, has released a captivating interactive map of the Milky Way using Planck's data. It combines multiple views of galaxy, including mapping dust, carbon monoxide gas, magnetic fields and a type of radiation known as "free-free." Link

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Capturing sprites might sound like something best undertaken in the pages of a children's book, but a very real photographer for the European Southern Observatory recently did just that. Of course, the sprites he captured were of the atmospheric rather than phantasmagoric variety, but they're still pretty splendid to behold. Sprites are red or orange streaks that take place 25-55 miles above thunderstorms, and they sometimes happen when a cloud-to-ground lightning strike occurs. Link

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Starwatch The February night sky Link

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With a fresh round of funding from Google to the tune of $1 billion, Elon Musk's SpaceX is firmly in the lead position of the commercial space race. But the company is still working to convince any doubters out there that what it's doing with reusable rockets is truly revolutionary, and now a new concept video offers a better look at the company's vision for more sustainable space travel. Link

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Scientists working with NASA's 23 (7 Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2 BL86. The images show the asteroid, which made its closest approach today (Jan. 26, 2 at 8:19 a.m. PST (11:19 a.m. EST) at a distance of about 745, miles (1.2 million kilometers, or 3.1 times the distance from Earth to the moon), has its own small moon. Link

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