CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - OCTOBER 28: NASA Ares I-X mission managers watch as NASA's Ares I-X rocket launches from pad 39b at the Kennedy Space Center October 28, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA has designed the Ares to be the replacement to the aging space shuttle fleet. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - OCTOBER 28: NASA Ares I-X mission managers watch as NASA's Ares I-X rocket launches from pad 39b at the Kennedy Space Center October 28, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA has designed the Ares to be the replacement to the aging space shuttle fleet.

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  1. This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009 shows hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus.
  2. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifts off atop a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California December 14, 2009 in this photograph released by NASA. The rocket deposited WISE into a polar orbit 326 miles above Earth, on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.
  3. This photo provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base, located near Lompoc, Calif., shows the launch of a Delta II rocket before dawn Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, from Vandenberg AFB on a $320 million mapping mission to search for hidden asteroids, comets and other celestial objects. The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, will produce the most comprehensive map yet of the cosmos, according to mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
  4. This photo provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base, located near Lompoc, Calif., shows the launch of a Delta II rocket before dawn Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, from Vandenberg AFB on a $320 million mapping mission to search for hidden asteroids, comets and other celestial objects. The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, will produce the most comprehensive map yet of the cosmos, according to mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
  5. Former President George H.W. Bush talks with NASA astronaut Nicole Stott before an NFL football game between the Houston Texans and the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 in Houston.
  6. This image provided by NASA Wednesday Dec. 9, 2009 shows the hexagon jet stream flowing around Saturn's north pole captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The last visible-light images of the entire hexagon were captured by NASA's Voyager spacecraft nearly 30 years ago, the last time spring began on Saturn. According to scientists "It's a mystery on par with the strange weather conditions that give rise to the long-lived Great Red Spot of Jupiter." he hexagon was originally discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It encircles Saturn at about 77 degrees north latitude and has been estimated to have a diameter wider than two Earths. The jet stream is believed to whip along the hexagon at around 100 meters per second (220 miles per hour).
  7. This photo taken on Nov. 5, 2009 released by the Australian Antarctic Division, courtesy of gsfc/NASA, shows a satellite image of iceberg B17B, center, some 19 kilometers (12 miles) long, floating southwest of the West Australian coast, between Australia and Antarctica. Since it was first sighted, it has shrunk from 54 square miles (140 square kilometers) to 44 square miles (115 square kilometers), or around 11 miles (18 kilometers) long and 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide. The iceberg has broken up into hundreds of smaller icebergs, some up to several miles (kilometers) wide, and spread over more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) of ocean.
  8. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  9. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Diesel trucks and cars travel the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  10. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  11. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: An emissions-producing diesel tanker truck passes non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  12. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  13. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  14. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  15. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  16. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.

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  8. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - DECEMBER 16: President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe speaks to delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference on December 16, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. As politicians, world leaders and environmentalists meet to try and reach agreement on how to combat climate change, protestors have battled with police outside the conference and Danish environment minister Connie Hedegaard resigned as summit president.
  9. EADS North America's chief executive Sean O'Keefe makes remarks during the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington December 16, 2009. O'Keefe briefed reporters on his views of the controversial bidding and design of the U.S. Air Force's KC-X tanker program, which is being pursued by EADS with partner Northrop Grumman in competition against Boeing.
  10. France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy speaks with children during the traditional Christmas party held at the Elysee Palace in Paris December 16, 2009.
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  16. DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 16: Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (L) and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum attend the Closing Night and Award Ceremony of the 6th Annual Dubai International Film Festival held at the Madinat Jumeriah Complex on December 16, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.