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21 min ago | SPACE.com

Comet ISON: How to See Potential 'Comet of the Century' Online Today

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet ISON was taken on April 10, 2013, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the sun .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, NASA, Boulder, CO, Science

4 hrs ago | KPLR-11

Bright Explosion On Moon Visible From Earth, NASA Says

A meteoroid struck the surface of the moon recently, causing an explosion that was visible on Earth without the aid of a telescope, NASA reported Friday.

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Related Topix: NASA, Explosion, Science

8 hrs ago | Watersblogged

Q172.5.C45 L48 2013 - Chaos in nature / Christophe Letellier

Chaos theory deals with the description of motion which cannot be predicted in the long term although produced by deterministic system, as well exemplified by meteorological phenomena.

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12 hrs ago | C-SPAN

Robert Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy

Elizabeth Sudduth talked about the Robert B. Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy, a collection of historic astronomy books, documents and telescopes donated to the South Carolina State Museum and the Thomas Cooper Library .. Read More Elizabeth Sudduth talked about the Robert B. Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy, a collection of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

14 hrs ago | StarDate

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Sat May 18, 2013

MLive.com

The Hubble as a hobbit: Lecture on famous telescope coming to Longway Planetarium

The Longway Planetarium is holding a lecture on the Hubble Telescope May 23 titled, "There and Back Again: An Astronomer's Tale." Guest lecturer Dr.

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Related Topix: Science, University of Michigan Flint, Flint, MI, Entertainment

RedOrbit

Researchers Propose New Gravitational Wave...

Exchange of electromagnetic energy is fairly well understood. The force carrier, the photon , is readily detectable and manipulated, making the physics of electromagnetic radiation easy to study.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science

24dash

University of Leicester Professor to become next President of the Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society has appointed a University of Leicester space scientist as its next President, one of the most prestigious roles in astronomy.

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Space.com

Astronomer's Poem Mourns Ailing Kepler Spacecraft

Scientists have been mourning the news that NASA's prolific planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope may have to cease its search for good.

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Related Topix: Science, Science / Technology, Space, NASA, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

R & D

Record-breaking high-energy particles detected by telescope buried in Antarctic

A massive telescope buried in the Antarctic ice has detected 28 extremely high-energy neutrinos-elementary particles that likely originate outside our solar system.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, Madison, WI

ScienceBlogs

"Einstein's Greatest Blunder" was REALLY a blunder

This picture of the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102aS'4915 combines images taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope with images from the SOAR Telescope.

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Fri May 17, 2013

Monsters and Critics

Asteroid flyby alert: Massive dark asteroid to whiz by Earth on May 31

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge reports they are keeping an eye out for an asteroid reportedly 1.7 miles long, one big enough to cause the dinosaurs\' extinction if it ever connected with the planet.

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Related Topix: La Canada Flintridge, CA, Dinosaur, Science, Paleontology, Science / Technology, Space

Universe Today

Seeing the Red of 'La Superba,' a Magnificent Springtime Carbon Star

The Universe can be a very gray place. But this week, we'll look at a fine example of a class of objects that defies this trend.

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Science Daily

Galaxy's 'burning ring of fire' is frenetic region of star formation

The "starburst ring" seen at center in red and yellow hues is not the product of love, as in the song, but is instead a frenetic region of star formation.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Science, Pasadena, CA

Mashable

Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon, Sparks Giant Explosion

The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Science, Space, Huntsville, AL

New Scientist

Astrophile: Saturn's egg moon Methone is made of fluff

Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse Named Methone, this small, oval moon was seen in close-up for the first time last year by NASA's Cassini spacecraft .

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Related Topix: Science, Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, Ithaca, NY, Science / Technology, Space

AccuWeather.com

Lunar Eclipse Later This Month

An eclipse of the moon will occur later this month, on May 25. This eclipse will be a penumbral eclipse visible across much of the Americas and Africa.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Science Daily

New method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe

Their paper describing the device and process was published in the physics journal Physical Review Letters .

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Related Topix: University of Nevada-Reno, Startups, Stanford University, Physics, Science

Science Daily

Asteroid 1998 QE2 to sail past Earth is nine times larger than cruise ship

And while QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot -- or larger -- radar telescope at their disposal.

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Related Topix: Science, World News, Puerto Rico, Pasadena, CA, Science / Technology, NASA, Space

Mail & Guardian

Ska Sa test telescope reveals binary star system

South Africa's test telescope reveals secrets of a binary star system and proves the country is able to deliver first-class scientific instruments.

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