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 * Category 10 - Other Cool Stuff **
 * Starshine || [|www.azinet.com/starshine] ||
 * Stardust || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Deep Impact || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Dawn || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * GALEX || NASA Current ||
 * EPOXI || NASA Current ||
 * WMAP || NASA Current ||
 * Deep Space 1 || JPL Past ||

Last year, scientists at NASA got a very special delivery all the way from outer space. It was a package of space particles captured by the StarDust Mission, a satellite that had been sent into space 7 years earlier. StarDust's mission was to fly through the coma of the comet Wild 2 to capture some stardust, and then to send the capsule back home to earth where it could be studied by a team of scientists. The coma of a comet is near the nucleus and has a high density of dust, gas, and particles.

JPL PAST Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past_missions.cfm JPL CURRENT Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/index.cfm NASA CURRENT Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/221081main_stardust2-earth-browse.jpg nebulas http://cs-observatory.com/SAC10%20Images/Seagull-Nebula-0220.jpg http://www.astronomics.com/Bruessow-Horsehead-color.jpg http://www.astronomics.com/Bruessow-M42.jpg http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/070212/070212_helix_hmed_10a.jpg