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CONTINUING COVERAGE: STRANGE SPIRAL LIGHT OVER NORWAY? PLEASE COMMENT This morning in Norway, people saw a strange and still-unexplained phenomenon |
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Mon Feb 1st, 2010 02:58 am by Jo  |
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Sudden Intense Sunspot 1024 Could It Flare on July 7, As Crop Formations Since April Have Seemed to Forecast? |
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Thu Jul 9th, 2009 01:49 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead Space.com |
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Wed Jul 14th, 2010 02:17 am by Jo  |
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Moon Shrinking Moon is shrinking, say astronomers |
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Sun Aug 22nd, 2010 03:26 am by bethany212  |
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Perseid Meteor Shower This Week Article from Space.com via Yahoo on the Perseid Meteor Shower |
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Sun Aug 15th, 2010 01:45 pm by bethany212  |
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UFO's Ck. Out These Videos |
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Mon Jul 26th, 2010 12:55 am by ShenainaiJ  |
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Search: Planet found with 'comet tail' Scientists have suspected it since 2003, but it's now been confirmed |
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Wed Jul 21st, 2010 01:53 am by bethany212  |
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NASA: Is Approaching Space Object Artificial? Comet_1342249c NASA authorities report that an unknown object approaching the Earth from deep space is almost certainly artificial in origin rather than being an asteroid. |
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Wed Jun 23rd, 2010 05:23 pm by Rusty  |
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Hubble catches planet being devoured by its star AFP |
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Sat May 29th, 2010 04:00 am by bethany212  |
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Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter Space.com |
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Thu May 20th, 2010 03:38 pm by RedMenace  |
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Asteroid Spotted Passing in Front of Stunning Space Cloud The relative nearby asteroid, called 1719 Jens |
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Fri May 14th, 2010 06:04 pm by Diggy  |
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Urban Legend - THE EYE OF GOD in outer Space Is this for real? or A deliberate attempt to deceive or trick you? |
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Fri May 7th, 2010 09:56 am by Cindy S  |
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Apollo 11 launch in super slo-mo Raw video depicts July, 1969 Apollo 11 launch |
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Fri Apr 30th, 2010 01:27 am by bethany212  |
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NASA: Nasa: Evidence of life on Mars NASA scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on Mars |
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Wed Apr 28th, 2010 10:53 pm by bethany212  |
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Lyrids meteor shower Turn off the TV and Look Up |
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Fri Apr 23rd, 2010 03:36 am by bethany212  |
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GEOMAGNETIC STORM from SpaceWeather.com A sharp gust of solar wind hit Earth's magnetosphere sparking a strong geomagnetic storm |
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Tue Apr 6th, 2010 03:17 am by Jo  |
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Solar 'Current of Fire' Speeds Up, From NASA Science NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun's Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years |
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Tue Mar 30th, 2010 06:44 pm by Diggy  |
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NORTHERN LIGHTS, from www.SpaceWeather.com Statistically speaking, March is the most geomagnetically active month of the year |
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Mon Mar 15th, 2010 10:54 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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BIG SUNSPOT, from www.SpaceWeather.com Sunspot 1054 is so big, you can see it without a telescope |
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Mon Mar 15th, 2010 10:52 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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SOLAR FILAMENTS From www.SpaceWeather.com Today, amateur astronomers around the world are monitoring a pair of enormous magnetic filaments on the sun |
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Tue Mar 9th, 2010 02:06 am by Nightowl  |
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A New Motion Picture of the Universe, With Free Admission for Colleges Large and Small Giant telescope promises to reveal the hidden nature of the cosmos, and let small institutions become big players in astronomy |
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Mon Feb 8th, 2010 02:04 pm by Shadozfire  |
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WEEKEND SUNSPOT | www.SpaceWeather.com Over the weekend, sunspot 1043 emerged in the sun's northern hemisphere--and it continues to grow today |
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Sat Feb 6th, 2010 02:50 am by Nightowl  |
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POLAR ACTIVITY ON MARS | www.SpaceWeather.com Amateur astronomers monitoring Mars have noticed a sudden change in the appearance of the planet's arctic regions |
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Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 11:06 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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BIGGEST FULL MOON OF THE YEAR Via www.SpaceWeather.com If you think tonight's Moon looks unusually big, you're right. It's the biggest full Moon of 2010 |
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Mon Feb 1st, 2010 10:43 pm by Spiderweb  |
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Strange Rock Found on Mars > From www.CoastToCoastAM.com Dubbed "Marquette Island," the boulder is different in composition than other known rocks from the Red Planet |
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Wed Jan 27th, 2010 09:09 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Earth and Mars are about to have a close encounter On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away |
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Wed Jan 27th, 2010 09:03 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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MINOR METEOR OUTBURST | www.SpaceWeather.com On the night of Jan. 20/21, an unexpected flurry of ten meteors emerged from the vicinity of Ursa Minor, the Little Dipper |
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Wed Jan 27th, 2010 08:33 pm by astronomy_lover_girl69  |
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Astronauts Photograph Haiti Quake Aftermath From Space The space station flew over the 260-year-old city Jan. 18, giving the station's Expedition 22 crewmembers a chance to snap photos of the hard-hit region. |
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Tue Jan 26th, 2010 09:39 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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INCOMING COMET | SpaceWeather.com NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has discovered another comet plunging toward the sun |
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Thu Jan 21st, 2010 10:00 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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SOLAR ACTIVITY INCREASES Continuing Coverage Via SpaceWeather.com The ongoing sequence of flares signals a sharp upturn in solar activity |
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Thu Jan 21st, 2010 09:57 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Mystery Object flying by Wednesday morning
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Wed Jan 13th, 2010 07:20 pm by Jo  |
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Planet-hunting telescope unearths hot mysteries
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Tue Jan 12th, 2010 02:41 am by Nightowl  |
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Russia to Plan Deflection of Asteroid From Earth Scientists have proposed various methods of averting an asteroid impact |
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Tue Jan 5th, 2010 11:48 pm by Rusty  |
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The solar system has one less comet. The subtraction occurred yesterday when a bright comet discovered by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft plunged toward the sun and evaporated. |
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Mon Jan 4th, 2010 07:30 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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SOLAR ACTIVITY INCREASES 2009 is ending with a flurry of sunspots |
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Wed Dec 30th, 2009 07:25 pm by Spiderweb  |
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MOON HALO ALERT It's cold outside. The Moon is waxing full. There's ice in the air. Add them all together and you have perfect conditions for a ring around the Moon: |
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Wed Dec 30th, 2009 03:27 am by Spiderweb  |
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Partial Lunar Eclipse
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Tue Dec 29th, 2009 12:42 am by RedMenace  |
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Big Dipper gains a Star ABC News |
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Mon Dec 28th, 2009 06:15 pm by RedMenace  |
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First-Ever Photo of Liquid Beyond Earth Photographed On Saturn's Moon In the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, NASA's Cassini spacecraft photographed sunlight reflecting off a “methane lake” |
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Mon Dec 28th, 2009 04:05 am by PEUmbarger  |
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Monumental Scientific Discovery Made On The Iron Range? Researchers say there is an 80 percent chance that two events could have been "dark matter." |
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Sun Dec 27th, 2009 09:51 pm by Jo  |
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Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist |
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Sat Dec 26th, 2009 09:08 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery |
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Sat Dec 19th, 2009 05:13 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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“Super-Earth” with Atmosphere and Water Discovered 40 Light-Years from Earth There is no question that small stars provide us with the fastest track to looking for life outside the solar system |
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Fri Dec 18th, 2009 12:44 am by Nightowl  |
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EVENTS IN NEBRASKA - LARGE METEOR At 9 p.m. Central Time on Dec. 16th, a very bright meteor lit up the completely overcast sky like lightning in southeast Nebraska |
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Thu Dec 17th, 2009 03:26 pm by astronomy_lover_girl69  |
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The Geminide Meteor Shower weather scrubbed the viewing of the shower |
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Thu Dec 17th, 2009 03:58 am by Moonbeam  |
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GEMINID METEOR SHOWER The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th |
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Tue Dec 15th, 2009 04:00 am by Jo  |
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Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites |
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Wed Dec 9th, 2009 03:50 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Hubble Photographs Billowing Clouds of Cosmic Dust A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope close-up image |
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Tue Dec 8th, 2009 06:18 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Mystery of Changing Star Brightness Deepens Unusual fluctuations in the brightness of older sun-like stars have long mystified astronomers |
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Tue Dec 8th, 2009 04:56 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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New WISE Infrared Space Telescope To Launch. It's really a mission to survey everything that's out there |
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Tue Dec 8th, 2009 01:00 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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ERUPTIVE PROMINENCE Dec. began with an enormous magnetic filament wrapped around the sun's south pole |
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Tue Dec 8th, 2009 12:54 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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MIDNIGHT MOON With the approach of winter, people of the Arctic have said their goodbyes to the midnight sun |
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Tue Dec 8th, 2009 02:33 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Herschel Space Telescope Gets Spectra of Colossal Dying Star Herschel's Spire camera shows VY Canis Majoris, a red giant at the end of its solar life |
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Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 03:53 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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GREAT WESTERN FIREBALL (Western United States) Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho say the fireball "turned night into day" and issued shock waves that "shook the ground" when it exploded just after midnight Mountain Standard Time. |
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Mon Nov 23rd, 2009 02:58 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite impressive |
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Mon Nov 23rd, 2009 02:51 am by HurricaneIan  |
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NORTHERN LIGHTS, Baffin Island, near the Canadian Arctic Circle the skies finally opened up after weeks of cloudy weather to showcase the dance of the Northern Lights |
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Mon Nov 23rd, 2009 02:47 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Scientists at UTMB wish to Exhume Galileo
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Tue Nov 17th, 2009 03:50 pm by Nightowl  |
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New Milky Way Image Shows Best of All Spectra A new multi-telescope image has revealed the beauty of the center of the Milky Way across the electromagnetic spectrum |
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Tue Nov 17th, 2009 03:47 pm by Nightowl  |
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Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth with only 15 hours warning |
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Tue Nov 17th, 2009 12:37 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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LEONID METEOR SHOWER The Leonid meteor shower peaks this year on Nov. 17th |
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Tue Nov 17th, 2009 12:22 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Water Found on the Moon NASA found water on the moon |
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Tue Nov 17th, 2009 01:05 am by paranormalfan4life  |
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SOLAR PROMINENCE Yesterday, Alan Friedman of Buffalo, New York, trained his telescope on the sun and waited for sunspot 1029 to reappear. |
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Sun Nov 15th, 2009 10:59 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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MORNING SHOW On Saturday morning, Nov. 14th, Frank Hood of Montreal, Quebec, woke up before dawn to see the crescent Moon glide by 1st-magnitude star Spica. |
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Sun Nov 15th, 2009 03:24 am by HurricaneIan  |
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ORIONID METEOR SHOWER The Orionid meteor shower is underway. According to the International Meteor Organization, observers are counting 25 Orionids per hour |
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Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 02:46 am by Jo  |
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Mysterious “Ribbon” Discovered at Solar System's Edge This is a shocking new result. We had no idea this ribbon existed - or what has created it. |
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Fri Oct 16th, 2009 01:59 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Cosmic Rays Reaching Earth At Highest Level in 50 Years. We think if the tilt of the sun’s solar magnetic fields continue to decline over the next few months or year, the intensity of cosmic rays reaching Earth will go up even more |
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Wed Oct 14th, 2009 08:23 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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“Bumps” in Saturn's Rings 2 Miles High and New, Enormous Ring Discovered. |
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Wed Oct 14th, 2009 08:19 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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NETHERLANDS FIREBALL | From SpaceWeather.com A fireball as bright as the full Moon startled observers in the Netherlands yesterday when it raced across the evening twilight sky. |
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Wed Oct 14th, 2009 07:48 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Quietest Sun In A Century, From www.EarthFiles.com “It is likely that the current 2009 blank days will be the longest in about 100 years.” |
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Fri Sep 11th, 2009 02:41 pm by Diggy  |
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PREMATURE MOONRISE, www.SpaceWeather.com It appeared a few minutes before the time predicted by the US Naval Observatory, Find Out Why! |
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Tue Sep 8th, 2009 04:52 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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MYSTERY PILLARS The air was very cold and filled with small ice crystals on Dec. 28th when we saw these strange pillars of light |
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Mon Aug 3rd, 2009 01:29 am by Michelle30  |
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POSSIBLE IMPACT EVENT ON JUPITER Did something just hit Jupiter? On July 19th, a black "scar" appeared in Jupiter's clouds similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts of 1994 |
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Mon Jul 20th, 2009 09:28 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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New Blue Stripes on Saturn's Moon Enceladus from Ocean? “Do underground oceans vent through the blue “tiger stripes” on Saturn's moon Enceladus known to be spewing ice from the moon's icy interior into space? |
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Mon Jul 13th, 2009 01:03 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Prolonged Sunspot Drought Ends as New Spots Appear
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Mon Jul 6th, 2009 11:22 pm by Shadozfire  |
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New Images Show Where Tomorrow's Stars Will Be Born
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Mon Jul 6th, 2009 11:19 pm by Shadozfire  |
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SPACE STATION MARATHON, Lots Of Fly Overs This Week This week, the International Space Station is making a remarkable series of flybys over the United States |
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Mon Jul 6th, 2009 08:43 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Salty Waters of Saturn's Moon Hint at Life
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Tue Jun 30th, 2009 04:55 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Mysterious things captured in the pictures
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Thu Jun 25th, 2009 10:55 pm by Grace12345  |
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Amazing pictures of the Moon Some pictures of the moon with spcecial phenomena |
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Thu Jun 25th, 2009 10:47 pm by Grace12345  |
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AURORA BOREALIS NEWS and INFORMATION Also Known As The Northern Lights |
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Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 02:56 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Why Does Moon Look Larger At Horizon? “Oddly, the cause or causes for the common Moon Illusion are still being debated. |
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Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 02:50 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Explosion On Back Side of Sun Late near midnight on June 21st, something behind the sun's eastern limb exploded and hurled a coronal mass ejection into space |
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Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 02:43 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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GREAT RED SPOT RIVAL Astronomers are monitoring a new red spot forming in Jupiter's northern hemisphere |
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Fri Jun 19th, 2009 03:09 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved? The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why. |
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Thu Jun 18th, 2009 03:41 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Boy Hit by Meteorite A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar. |
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Mon Jun 15th, 2009 03:06 am by HurricaneIan  |
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IMPACT ALERT: Japan's Kaguya spacecraft will crash into the Moon on Wednesday, June 10th, at around The timing favors telescopic observers in east Asia, Australia and New Zealand, who may be able to see a brief flash of light or a plume of debris rising from the Moon's southeastern limb |
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Sat Jun 13th, 2009 02:37 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere – but no longer |
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Sat Jun 13th, 2009 01:54 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Red Giant Star Betelgeuse Shrinking - To Supernova? Red supergiant Betelgeuse, 495 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, has steadily shrunk 15% in diameter over the past 15 years. |
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Fri Jun 12th, 2009 12:55 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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MORNING PLANETARY CONJUNCTION Mark your calendar for June 19th. On that Friday morning, Venus, Mars and the crescent Moon will gather. |
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Fri Jun 12th, 2009 12:48 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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ISS Flyover For Fort Myers Area June 18th, 2009 >> 05:09:29 am |
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Fri Jun 12th, 2009 12:38 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Study: Earth May Collide With Another Planet
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Thu Jun 11th, 2009 07:25 pm by crazykugz  |
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Nearby Star May Be Getting Ready to Explode
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Wed Jun 10th, 2009 06:41 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Biggest Black Hole Ever Found In Nearby Galaxy The most massive black hole yet weighed lurks at the heart of the relatively nearby giant galaxy M87. |
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Wed Jun 10th, 2009 03:09 pm by crazykugz  |
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Crew Doubles at International Space Station. First time that all five ISS station partners from NASA, Russian Federal Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency are represented onboard. |
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Mon Jun 1st, 2009 12:15 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Moved: STS-125 SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS, Mission To Repair Hubble Page: 1 2 Continuing News and Coverage of the STS-125 Space Shuttle Mission To Repair The Hubble Space Telescope |
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Mon May 25th, 2009 09:41 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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SPACESHIPS IN THE SUN The space shuttle's silhouette was beautifully outlined by solar fire as Atlantis passed over central Florida. |
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Sun May 17th, 2009 08:57 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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CELESTIAL TRIANGLE This week, Venus, Mars and the Moon are gathering for a beautiful morning sky show |
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Sun May 17th, 2009 08:51 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Astronomical Information in U.K. 2009 Crop Formations? In these 2009 progressions of crop patterns so far, it seems like the circlemakers are describing a combined ‘solar flare and coronal mass ejection’ on the apogee full Moon |
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Wed May 13th, 2009 10:32 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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ARIZONA FIREBALL >> From SpaceWeather.Com Over the weekend, midnight sky watchers in Arizona and New Mexico witnessed a "spectacular fireball" that exploded in "a flash like lightning." |
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Sun May 3rd, 2009 02:13 pm by paranormalfan4life  |
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The Geomagnetic Apocalypse — And How to Stop It Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, |
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Sat Apr 25th, 2009 10:48 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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LYRID METEOR SHOWER Earth is passing through a trail of debris from Comet Thatcher, the source of the Lyrids, and this is expected to produce 10 to 20 meteors per hour over the northern hemisphere |
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Sat Apr 25th, 2009 01:25 am by Nightowl  |
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Cassini's continued mission, Awesome Pictures NASA's Cassini spacecraft is now a nearly a year into its extended mission, called Cassini Equinox |
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Sat Apr 25th, 2009 12:06 am by M Newbury  |
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Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission. |
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Fri Apr 24th, 2009 11:59 pm by M Newbury  |
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Spirit Healthy But Computer Reboots Raise Concerns The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend |
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Fri Apr 24th, 2009 06:09 pm by M Newbury  |
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VENUS & THE MOON Just before sunrise on Wednesday morning, April 22nd, Venus and the crescent Moon will have a spectacular close encounter |
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Fri Apr 24th, 2009 05:59 pm by M Newbury  |
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Space Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis on Neighboring Launch Pads Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour completed its 4.2-mile trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B |
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Sun Apr 19th, 2009 06:27 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Venus Disappears during Meteor Shower On Wednesday morning, April 22nd, Earth will pass through a stream of comet dust, giving rise to the annual Lyrid meteor shower |
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Sun Apr 19th, 2009 06:14 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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NIGHT SKY UPDATE (ISS Fly Overs and Planetary Groupings) The Moon, Venus, Mars and Jupiter are all in the morning sky! |
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Sun Apr 19th, 2009 05:50 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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DNA analysis may be done on Mars for first time Recent research suggests life might find a niche just below the surface, where liquid water could be widespread |
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Sat Apr 18th, 2009 03:43 pm by Nightowl  |
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Unusually Quiet Sun Means Less Trouble for Earth The sun has been unusually quiet lately, with fewer sunspots and weaker magnetic fields than in nearly a century |
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Fri Apr 17th, 2009 11:49 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Mysterious Jagged Shadows In Saturns Rings NASA: “What's causing unusual jagged shadows on Saturn's rings? No one is yet sure. |
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Thu Apr 16th, 2009 11:31 pm by Nightowl  |
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The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms Researchers studying data from NASA's twin STEREO probes have found that ferocious solar storms called CMEs (coronal mass ejections) are shaped like a French pastry |
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Thu Apr 16th, 2009 11:28 pm by Nightowl  |
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NASA to give away zero-gravity flights
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Fri Apr 10th, 2009 03:00 am by Spiderweb  |
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"Crown of Thorns" Galaxy Spotted An unusual large galaxy with a shape bordering between spiral and elliptical has been spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. |
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Wed Apr 8th, 2009 05:15 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Scientists Race to Prevent 'Catastrophic Disaster' in Space
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Mon Apr 6th, 2009 08:31 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Giant 'Hand' Reaches Across Space Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows. |
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Mon Apr 6th, 2009 08:23 pm by Shadozfire  |
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SUNDAY FIREBALL, www.SpaceWeather.com people from Maryland to Virginia witnessed bright lights in the sky and heard rumbling explosions before 10 pm local time on Sunday, March 29th |
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Mon Apr 6th, 2009 12:56 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Simulated Human Trip to Mars for 105 Days Has Begun The crew will face specially designed emergencies and problems such as delays of as much as 20 minutes in communication with flight control as the radio signal travels the enormous distance to Earth and back |
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Mon Apr 6th, 2009 12:52 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Jupiter's stormy Great Red Spot is shrinking
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Mon Apr 6th, 2009 12:50 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Hidden Planet Found in Old Hubble Data A new technique has uncovered an extrasolar planet hidden in Hubble Space Telescope images taken 11 years ago. |
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Thu Apr 2nd, 2009 02:58 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Giant ice flows bolster case for volcanoes on Titan SLUSHY water from a hidden ocean may be pooling onto the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan. |
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Mon Mar 30th, 2009 04:12 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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VOLCANIC CLOUDS, Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Volcano has erupted no fewer than 19 times since March 22nd, and several of the larger blasts have hurled plumes of ash and gas into the lower stratosphere. |
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Mon Mar 30th, 2009 04:02 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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New Bacteria in Upper Stratosphere from Outer Space? Three bacterial colonies, named PVAS-1, B3 W22 and B8 W22 are totally new species with significantly higher UV resistance than known Earth bacteria. |
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Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 03:50 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Rare Transit of Four Moons On Saturn Captured by Hubble On February 24, 2009, the Hubble Space Telescope captured this rare view of four moons passing Saturn |
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Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 03:47 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Scientists eye debris after satellite collision
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Wed Mar 18th, 2009 01:28 am by Nightowl  |
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NASA's Kepler Set to Launch Tonight. NASA's first mission to look for Earth-sized planets. |
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Sat Mar 7th, 2009 01:33 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Dancing black hole twins spotted Reseachers have seen the best evidence yet for a pair of black holes orbiting each other within the same galaxy. |
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Sat Mar 7th, 2009 06:44 am by nina_reene  |
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Tiny moon discovered orbiting Saturn International scientists have announced the discovery of a tiny moon orbiting Saturn. |
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Sat Mar 7th, 2009 06:40 am by nina_reene  |
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Surprise Asteroid Makes Near-Miss of Earth
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Sat Mar 7th, 2009 06:39 am by nina_reene  |
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Missing Asteroids Reveal Planet-Sized Mystery Missing asteroids in our solar system may be the handiwork of rampaging giant planets as they migrated to their current positions, according to a new computer simulation. |
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Fri Feb 27th, 2009 01:59 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Sliver of a chance for life on Mars
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Fri Feb 27th, 2009 01:58 pm by Shadozfire  |
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'Cosmic Eye' Photographed Staring Across Space A spectacular "cosmic eye" has been photographed in space by a telescope in Chile, showing a distant nebula in which sunlike stars are burning themselves out. |
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Thu Feb 26th, 2009 06:50 pm by Shadozfire  |
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THE GREEN COMET COMETH: Page: 1 2 The first thing that strikes most observers when they see Comet Lulin is the color: It's green! |
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Thu Feb 26th, 2009 02:22 pm by Teetee  |
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Nasa failure to launch satellite NASA said early Tuesday that it failed to launch a satellite which would have monitored greenhouse gases to study how they affect the Earth's climate. |
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Wed Feb 25th, 2009 05:01 am by Nightowl  |
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MULTIPLE FIREBALLS On Friday, Feb. 13th, around 10:00 pm EST, people in central Kentucky heard loud booms, felt their houses shake, and some saw a fireball streaking through the sky |
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Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 02:45 am by Squishie  |
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Silicas - and Hot Springs? - Could Mean Ancient Life On Mars On Earth, hydrothermal deposits [hot springs] teem with life and the associated silica deposits typically contain fossil remains of microbes. |
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Sat Feb 21st, 2009 09:44 am by HurricaneIan  |
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VALENTINE DAY NORTHERN LIGHTS The Northern Lights were very excited on Valentine's Day |
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Sat Feb 21st, 2009 06:01 am by nina_reene  |
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MORE THAN ONE EARTH IN THE UNIVERSE Mulitple Earths Linger in Our Universe |
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Sat Feb 21st, 2009 05:58 am by nina_reene  |
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European space agency hopes to clean up space junk
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Sat Feb 21st, 2009 05:51 am by nina_reene  |
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Armchair astronomer discovers unique 'cosmic ghost'
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Sat Feb 21st, 2009 05:48 am by nina_reene  |
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9 Threatened Animals in 2009 World Wildlife Fund's list of “9 to Watch in 2009” is an annual list of some of the most threatened species around the world |
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Fri Feb 20th, 2009 08:18 am by nina_reene  |
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Dark comets could hit earth without warning
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Fri Feb 20th, 2009 08:12 am by nina_reene  |
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VOLCANO WATCH: Alaska's Mount Redoubt Geologists expect it to erupt "within days. |
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Tue Feb 10th, 2009 06:24 pm by Teetee  |
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Hyperion >> Strangest Moon in Solar System? Are Hyperion's sponge-like icy craters filled with hydrocarbons? |
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Tue Feb 10th, 2009 05:00 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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IRANIAN SATELLITE Iran's first home-grown satellite is now in Earth orbit |
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Tue Feb 10th, 2009 04:54 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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New Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered The object has now been confirmed to be a previously undiscovered Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA), with several possible Earth impact risks after 2042. |
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Mon Feb 9th, 2009 04:21 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Are we bringing germs to Mars?
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Fri Feb 6th, 2009 07:12 pm by Shadozfire  |
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ISS FLY OVER FOR FORT MYERS AREA You can see it with the the unaided eye during this event. |
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Wed Feb 4th, 2009 08:02 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Ashes of 'Star Trek' Creator's Widow to Fly in Space The ashes of actress Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, will be launched into deep space alongside those of her husband in a memorial spaceflight slated for 2012. |
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Tue Feb 3rd, 2009 02:06 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Firm Seeks $8 Million For Experiment That Survived Columbia Accident Six years after the space shuttle Columbia disaster, a commercial space company is fighting NASA for $8 million in compensation for a biomedical experiment that crash-landed in a Texas parking lot |
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Tue Feb 3rd, 2009 02:04 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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FIREBALL ALERT During the next 48 hours, two big pieces of space debris are expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere: a 2000 kg Centaur rocket body on Feb. 3rd and a 2500 kg Delta III rocket body on Feb. 4th. |
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Tue Feb 3rd, 2009 01:43 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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SOLAR ECLIPSE When the sun rose yesterday over Gough Island in the remote South Atlantic Ocean, only half of the sun actually appeared |
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Fri Jan 30th, 2009 11:58 am by HurricaneIan  |
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NASA wants you to decide where to look next
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Thu Jan 29th, 2009 01:56 pm by Shadozfire  |
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NAMIBIA FIREBALL Last night, Jan. 27th, around 2105 local time in Namibia, sky watchers witnessed a slow, bright fireball that disintegrated into "thousands of lights" |
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Wed Jan 28th, 2009 07:37 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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SCANDINAVIAN FIREBALL: A meteoroid of unknown size hit Earth's atmosphere over Scandinavia on Jan. 17th |
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Wed Jan 28th, 2009 01:28 am by Manzz  |
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FIREBALL SIGHTING: Observers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are reporting a "huge, pulsating blue-green fireball" |
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Tue Jan 27th, 2009 01:11 pm by M Newbury  |
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Methane Mystery On Mars “We observed and mapped multiple plumes of methane on Mars, one of which released about 19,000 metric tons of methane.” |
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Tue Jan 27th, 2009 08:01 am by HurricaneIan  |
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STRANGE ASTEROID: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 BD is slowly passing by Earth today only 400,000 miles away. |
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Mon Jan 26th, 2009 01:36 pm by HurricaneIan  |
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Mars methane discovery hints at presence of life, By Matthew Moore Nasa scientists have detected "plumes" of methane on Mars, possibly indicating organic activity on the Red Planet. |
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Tue Jan 20th, 2009 05:45 am by HurricaneIan  |
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The Brain How Google Is Making Us Smarter Humans are "natural-born cyborgs," and the Internet is our giant "extended mind." by Carl Zimmer |
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Tue Jan 20th, 2009 05:40 am by HurricaneIan  |
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Biggest full moon of 2009--Tonight!
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Thu Jan 15th, 2009 09:06 pm by lucyB  |
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Methane may prove life on Mars
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Thu Jan 15th, 2009 02:50 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Strange Rock Formations on Mars Explained Rocks on Mars are in some areas scattered in a strangely uniform fashion, puzzling scientists for years. Now they've figured it out. |
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Thu Jan 15th, 2009 01:10 pm by Shadozfire  |
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Astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern, 1940-2009 passed away on January 9th |
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Thu Jan 15th, 2009 02:51 am by HurricaneIan  |
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NASA warns of solar doomsday
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Fri Jan 9th, 2009 01:16 pm by Shadozfire  |
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New Nostradamus and 2012 show on tonight
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Thu Jan 8th, 2009 04:58 pm by Goober  |
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Astronomers find new runaway stars
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Thu Jan 8th, 2009 04:02 am by Shadozfire  |
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POWER GRIDS IN PERIL The National Academy of Sciences has released an important new report detailing how geomagnetic storms could damage the infrastructure of modern society. |
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Wed Jan 7th, 2009 05:09 pm by Nightowl  |
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Gadget Racket Threatens Pulsar Research
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Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 04:47 pm by Shadozfire  |
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NEW ENGLAND FIREBALL: On Dec. 29th, around 9:30 pm EST, a blue-green fireball 100+ times brighter than Venus soared over New England and exploded colorfully in mid-air. |
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Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 01:33 am by M Newbury  |
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Intense Earthquake Swarm in Yellowstone Caldera. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations report that an intense swarm of 250 earthquakes has been underway since December 26, beneath Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park |
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Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 01:27 am by M Newbury  |
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FIRST METEORS OF 2009 The annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Jan. 3rd when Earth enters a stream of debris from shattered comet 2003 EH1 |
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Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 01:20 am by M Newbury  |
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