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Space Shuttle and Crew Lost During Re-Entry left to right, David M. Brown, Rick D. Husband, Laurel B. Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, William C. McCool, and Ilan Ramon (Credit: STS-107 Crew, NASA)

Atlantis Reflection (Credit: NASA, Bill Ingalls)

The Flight Deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour (Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography), Spaceflight Now)

The Last Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour (Credit: NASA)

The International Space Station Over Earth (Credit: STS-128 Crew, NASA)

Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together (Credit: NASA)

A Busy Space Walk at the Space Station (ISS Expedition 28 Crew, STS-135 Crew, NASA)

To Fly Free in Space (Credit: STS-41B, NASA)

Atlantis' Last Approach (Credit: ISS Expedition 28 Crew, STS-135 Crew, NASA)

The Earth and Moon Planetary System (Credit: Northwestern University, JPL, NASA)

50 Years Ago: Yuri's Planet (Credit: ISS Expedition 7 Crew, EOL, NASA)

The Water Planet (Credit: NASA image by Robert Simmon and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, based on MODIS data)

Ripples Through a Dark Sky [Credit & Copyright: P-M Heden (Clear Skies, TWAN)]

Starry Night over Dubai [Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)]

Shuttle Enterprise Over New York (Credit: NASA, Bill Ingalls)

Earth's Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet [Credit: Ben Holt Sr. (South Pasadena, CA), GRACE team, DLR, NASA)]

A Space Shuttle Over Los Angeles (Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Confer)

Endeavour's Final Flight Ends at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2012 (Credit: NASA/Matt Hedges)

The Sun Unleashed (NASA / Goddard / SDO AIA Team)

Eight Planets and New Solar System Designations (Credit: International Astronomical Union)

Spiral Galaxy M74 [Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration]

Galaxy Abell 1689's 'Gravitational Lens' Magnifies Light of Distant Galaxies [Credit: NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (Racah Institute of Physics/The Hebrew University), H. Ford (JHU), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory), the ACS Science Team and ESA]

NASA's Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier (Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI))

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Wolfram|Alpha's Computational Knowledge Engine

The Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine (wolframalpha.com) search widget provides easy access to the entirety of its computational knowledge engine. Simply type a question into the search box, click the submit button and, Voilà!, you receive an answer. Not only is the above Wolfram|Alpha search capable of performing all kinds of mathematical computations such as computing the distances between cities across Earth, distances throughout the Solar System, and distances across interstellar space (for example, the distance between Earth and Betelgeuse) but also it is capable of performing a wide range of other kinds of computational tasks such as obtaining global weather conditions. It even will cite the Ten Commandments or Stephen Wolfram's biography. Wolfram|Alpha is inching closer to its stated goal of "making all human knowledge computable and accessible to every human being from a single source."

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