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At the end of 2005, NASA lost one of its satellites. Now it has found it again, thanks to an amateur astronomer—but it needs to remember how to read its data. The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite was launched in early 2000 as part of a mission to observe the Earth’s magnetosphere, and how it’s affected by solar wind. The whole project cost around $132 million, and the mission was extended in 2002. Then IMAGE vanished three years later. An amateur astronomer spotted it a couple weeks ago, prompting NASA to take another look. On Monday, the space agency said the radio signals coming from the object seemed about right, but the signal needed analysis to confirm its origin. And on Tuesday, NASA said the data encoded in the signal indicated this was indeed IMAGE. What’s more, it’s still at least partially functional. “The NASA team has been able to read some basic housekeeping data from the spacecraft, suggesting that at least the m...

Earlier Thursday, a man was found hanging from a tree by the neck in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. Around 5 a.m., Atlanta police entered the park to find a man hanging from a tree, and medical first responders pronounced the man dead at the scene. City officials haven't yet said who the man found in Piedmont Park was, but they have said that a medical examiner said the circumstances of his death are consistent with a suicide. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed issued a statement later in the day expressing his grief for the loss of this heretofore-unidentified man and that they are referring the case to the FBI. He promised Atlantans that he will get to the bottom of the situation in the statement: Everything we have seen suggests that there was no foul play involved, but I want to state clearly and unequivocally that we will not prejudge the circumstances surrounding this young man's death. While APD and the city are treating the man's death as a suicide, social media user...