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    <pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:31:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Earth. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ &ldquo;a pale blue dot ....That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human be ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:43:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Voyager - journey from interplanetary to interstellar space</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ When launched in 1977 I doubt anyone really expected the Voyager spacecraft to last quite this long, after all you don't see that many 34 year old car ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:47:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>China sets out its space strategy</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/policy-china-five-year-plan.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ &ldquo;That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind.&rdquo;
Neil Armstrong&rsquo;s quote on stepping onto the lunar surface in July  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:20:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Space tourism: the Moon, Mars and beyond?</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/spacetourism-ski.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ It is early January and the excesses of Christmas and the New Year are beginning to wear off. Your gaze falls onto the advert flickering on the screen ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:59:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Virgin Galactic, towards space</title>
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So far nine individuals have had their dream experience of spaceflight funded privately. Virgin Galactic aims to see that number increase to many t ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jan 2012 03:32:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Twins arrive at the Moon for the New Year</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ On 10 September 2011, NASA&rsquo;s twin GRAIL spacecraft began their three month journey to the Moon. The GRAIL duo will be ringing in the new year by ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:58:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ALMA - an observatory that's on top of the world</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/ALMA.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ I have been to a fair few astronomical observatories around the world. But this is the first time that I've needed a medical to visit one. I'm at ALMA ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:00:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/bookreviews-quantumuniverse.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ Ever since I was a young boy I have been fascinated by the night sky, and my thirst to learn more about it has taken me down many roads from optics to ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:51:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>A mission to the stars?</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/mission-to-the-stars.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ Big science requires big thinking. Thinking that extends across national borders, political schisms and generations. And big science does not come muc ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:25:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Our solar system</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ The solar system consists of everything that is controlled and powered by our closest star, the Sun. Humankind, the Earth, and all objects that orbit  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:32:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>The Sun</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ The Sun, which is the only star we can examine close up, was born about 4.6 billion years ago. Material in a cloud of gas and dust slowly clumped toge ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:49:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>The James Webb - NASA's next big telescope</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/jwst.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ Astronomers are looking forward to having a powerful new weapon in their armoury to help them gain answers to the universe's greatest mysteries.
The  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:37:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>International Space Station</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Ever since mankind walked the Earth the sky has held a very special fascination. From the gentle light of the stars to the meandering paths of the pla ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:28:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>The Mystery of Planet-X</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ The understanding of our Solar System has been in a state of flux for centuries. In the early days it was thought to consist of just five planets: Mer ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:25:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Hubble - the telescope that transformed astronomy</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/hubble.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ A little over 20 years ago, a telescope was launched into space to bring us new views of the heavens. Astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery released ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:42:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Neptune</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ The eighth and final major planet from the Sun, Neptune is unique amongst its planetary neighbours as its eventual discovery was the result of mathema ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:45:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Uranus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Until 13th March 1781, our Solar System was thought to be made up of six planets including the Earth but on this day, the Solar System almost doubled  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:20:55 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mark Thompson's guide to the Moon</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ There can be few objects that have inspired both artists and scientists as much as the Moon. Perhaps surprisingly its appearance has barely changed in ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:39:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>A Voyage of Discovery</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ It&rsquo;s often said that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on Earth!  Now that may seem like a crazy fact to get yo ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:15:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>The Space Shuttle - a retrospective</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Thirty years after first blasting into space, NASA&rsquo;s space shuttle came to the end of the road in 2011.
A final launch of Atlantis in July saw  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:04:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mars</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Earth's other neighbour is Mars. Today Mars is a cold dead planet, the heat from the planet's core having radiated into space a long time ago. Our exp ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:12:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Venus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Today Venus is hell-like with a surface temperature of 462 degrees Celsius - hot enough to melt lead. The Sun's heat is unable to escape because its t ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:31:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mercury</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Mercury is a tortured small rock, subjected to violently hot and unimaginably cold temperatures, a planet battered and scared by meteorites.
Mercury  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:36:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Saturn</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest of our 8 planets. Saturn is one of the four gas giants, made primarily of hydrogen and  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:54:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Jupiter</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and the fifth planet from the Sun, orbiting at a distance of 778 million kilometres (482 million&nbs ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:03:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Sir Patrick Moore's Beginners Guide to Astronomy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Sir Patrick Moore is a legendary British astronomer who has devoted his life to promoting knowledge and interest in space. He has presented The Sky at ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:58:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Space law</title>
      <link>http://www.sen.com/features/SpaceLaw-UniversityofSunderland.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ With the advent of commercial space travel and an expanding space economy, the need to understand, interpret and shape the laws governing space activi ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:02:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Why space is important</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Day to day economic reality and the immediate practicalities and demands of our daily routines make it hard to consider the bigger picture of our plac ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:02:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Manned space flights from the UK?</title>
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Whilst the UK space industry is worth &pound;6.5 billion per year to the UK economy, the absence of manned space flights from the UK has always  ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:02:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>The race for space</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Last updated 23 January 2011A new era of commercial space travel has arrived that will enable the man in the street (albeit with a reasonable amount o ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:02:00 UTC</pubDate>
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