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55 min ago | MSNBC

Recommended: Astronomers get rare look at ancient galaxy collision

Two star-forming galaxies in the process of colliding 11 billion light-years away, as seen by a variety of telescopes.

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Related Topix: Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, US News, Liberal Political News

55 min ago | CBS Local

Maryland Residents See Meteoric Fireball Shoot Across Sky

A bright light seen traveling across the sky over the weekend by dozens of witnesses across Maryland and the region is what astronomers are calling a fragmenting meteoric fireball.

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Related Topix: Science, Emmitsburg, MD

1 hr ago | The News-Gazette

UI telescope gets renovation

Swarthmore engineering sophomore Yousef Alhessi, left, and Fred Orthlieb, emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at Swarthmore; work on taking apart the historic telescope at UI Observatory so it can be restored off-site by Ray Museum Studios in Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Swarthmore, PA, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Science

6 hrs ago | Universe Today

Giveaway: "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier" by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier , at times, reads like an updated version of some of Carl Sagan's classic work about the history of astronomy and our place in the Universe.

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9 hrs ago | Air & Space

Earth-Like Planets Could be Right Next Door

Even in places where skies are dark and the Milky Way seems to fill our view, the night sky is teeming with stars we cannot see.

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Related Topix: Science, Cambridge, MA, Penn State University Park, Pennsylvania State University

13 hrs ago | Hawaii Tribune-Herald

New star provides picture of Sun's future

Pictured is an artist's rendering of CoRoT Sol 1 and a chronology of the Sun's evolution based on data from the Subaru Telescope and the CoRoT space mission.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Science Musings Blog

Planet Bruno

In the year 1600, Giordano Bruno went up n smoke in the Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the Field of Flowers.

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Universe Today

How Fast Does the Earth Rotate?

The ground feels firm and solid beneath your feet. Of course, the Earth is rotating, turning once on its axis every day.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Science

News24

NRF signs international partnership

NRF CEO Dr Albert van Jaarsveld has said that astronomy could make South Africa a world leader.

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Related Topix: Science, World News, South Africa

BBC News

Plea over suffragette bomb mystery

Information on the mystery bomber who 100 years ago attacked the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh during a suffragette campaign is being sought.

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TechEBlog

5 Fascinating Science Mysteries That Might Puzzle You

Did you know that there are actually space sounds? Or, that there have been several occurrences of raining fish and that it's possible to travel faster than light? If not, those are just some of the fascinating science mysteries that we've rounded up for you today.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Travel, Peru Travel, Science

USA Today

Group: Ball State science prof teaches Christianity

Ball State University is investigating a complaint that one of its assistant professors in the department of physics and astronomy is preaching rather than teaching.

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Related Topix: Ball State University, Physics, Science, Muncie, IN, University of Chicago

Universe Today

Astronomers Detect Dust Feature in Comet ISON's Inner Coma

Image from May 5, 2013 of a the inner region of Comet ISON using the 2-meter Liverpool telescope at La Palma.

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

Scoop

Former UC student made a Fellow of the Royal Society

A former University of Canterbury student, Cambridge University astronomy professor Gerry Gilmore has become a Fellow of the Royal Society .

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The Guardian

Lost in space: why it has taken so long to put a British astronaut into orbit

Helen Sharman, Britain's first cosmonaut, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1991. Her journey aboard the Mir space station was not supported by the British government.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Science, World News, Russia

Mon May 20, 2013

Examiner.com

A lecture on black holes

"Do you guys know what is on the other side of those things?" a member of the audience inquired at the David M. Brown Arlington Planetarium, referring to one of the most popular and identifiable phenomena of outer space; black holes .

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Related Topix: Bethesda, MD, Science

Neatorama

The Moon Takes One for the Team

Last week, NASA astronomers monitoring the Moon saw an explosion larger than anything they've seen before .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Science

Science Daily

Advance in nanotech gene sequencing technique

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority.

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Related Topix: University of Pennsylvania, Physics, Science, Brown University, Columbia University

Free Republic

Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Blue Sun Bursting

If so why is it so rarely referred to as such? For example, in that illustration would it not be proper to label "Our sun" as "Sol"? Just one of those trivial things that occupy my limited and shrinking gray matter.

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CNN

Kepler or not, we'll find life

This diagram lines up planets recently discovered by Kepler in terms of their sizes, compared to Earth.

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Related Topix: Science, Yale University, Opinion