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• CSIRO partners with Korea for 8000km 'virtual' telescope

  A partnership between Korean astronomers and the CSIRO has created a 'virtual' telescope that is 8000km across. The combined telescopes have 100 times the resolving power of the Hubble Space Telescope.

• 10 game-changing space galaxy discoveries

  What's hot in space? Galaxies!

• 8 surprising hunks of space gear that returned to Earth

  NASA and others have had their share of spacecraft parts fall back to Earth.

• Space nerds need plain talk: Industry boss

  Space scientists must learn to explain their work in plain English, lose their image as "nerds" and "nutters", and match projects to the nation's demands, an industry leader says.

• Australia and NZ submit SKA proposal

  Australia and New Zealand have submitted a written proposal as part of the quest to host the $2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, with the final decision to be made early 2012.

• Australian school students to use telepresence in mission to Mars

  Telepresence technology will allow students from across Australia to participate in a simulated mission to Mars, with the Pathways to Space program being launched today in Sydney.

• Open source powers new Aussie space race

  A group of Australian Linux enthusiasts are using freely available software and hardware designs to engineer a space craft that could one day land on the moon and reap a $20 million prize from Google.

• Wireless network camera sets world record for altitude

  An Axis network camera has set the world record for the highest wireless network camera delivering high quality images to Earth. The camera was sent into the atmosphere by a stratospheric balloon from the Esrange Space Center in the north of Sweden.

• US spaceship factory set to begin

  A production facility that would build the world's first fleet of commercial spaceships is set to begin construction on Tuesday at the US' Mojave Air and Space Port.

• In brief: Australia and US collaborate on civil space

  An agreement with the United States on civil space collaboration means Australian residents will be able to monitor natural disasters, climate change and weather patterns more effectively.

• Colonise Mars, moonwalk hero says

  Moonwalk pioneer Buzz Aldrin says Australia and New Zealand should be part of an international coalition to explore and colonise Mars.

• Amazing telescopes produce hot space images

  Ground-based telescopes continue to produce some of world's important space discoveries

• Astronauts sky high on out-of-this-world twittering

  The astronauts of Space Shuttle mission STS-131 are delighted by the response to their extra-terrestrial Twitter messages, they said Monday.

• NASA astronauts attach Russian module to space station

  NASA astronauts today successfully attached a Russian-built research module to the International Space Station during the second spacewalk scheduled for the space shuttle Atlantis' final mission .

• NASA's Discovery crew completes mission's last spacewalk

  NASA space shuttle Discovery astronauts wrapped up their third and final spacewalk this morning after successfully attaching a new ammonia tank to the International Space Station.