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Pluto's Moons, Nix and Hydra, may have been Adopted
The mini-moons of Pluto, Nix and Hydra, were discovered in 2005 (but named in 2006) during an observation campaign by the Hubble Space Telescope. The discoveryâ¦
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Which Planet Fits Your Mug?
This week’s featured item from the Orbiting Frog Shop comes from the Astronomy section. Coasters depicting the relative sizes of the planets let you see how…
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You Like Me, You Really Like Me
Carnival of Space #43 is out in the wild, hosted this week by Stars with a Bang! and Oscar-themed. I have won Best Animated Feature. [Link] For more info on…
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Video of Spy Satellite Getting Shot Down
Watch as General Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shows how the Navy Aegis missile launches and successfully destroys the rogue spy…
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The end is near...
New calculations predict that the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun in about 7.6 billion years unless the Earth’s orbit can be altered. read more | digg…
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Venus Revealed: Probe Discovers Extraordinary Weather System
Named after the Roman goddess of love
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Carnival of Space 42
This week is Chrisâ turn to host the Carnival of Space.
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Eagle Nebula in Two Wavelengths
We just had a great star formation talk from Professor Ralf Klessen from the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the Center for Astronomy at Heidelbergâ¦
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NGC 4676: Colliding Galaxies
These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as â The Miceâ because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passedâ¦
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Satellites on Google Earth
UPDATE: New Google Earth tracking files for Space Telescopes are now up. Hot on the heels of putting all the SCUBA data onto Google Sky, I am now sharing someâ¦
