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Lunar Eclipse 2008: A Guide
This Wednesday there will be a total eclipse of the Moon. Totality will last for 51 minutes and will be visible throughout Europe, North America, the Pacificâ¦
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Orbiting Frog Shop
Orbiting Frog is spreading out and heading into other parts of the internet. You can now buy science and astronomy based goodies via the Orbiting Frog Shop!â¦
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Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth
Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from…
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Carnival of Space 41
This time hosted by The Fool: [Carnival of Space 41. ](http://newfrontiersblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/carnival-of-space-41.html)
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Hilarious Telescope Packaging
Just a quick note to point out Stuartâs post at the Astronomy Blog, showing off some packaging for a telescope produced by Oxford University:â¦
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How âFlat Earthâ News is Killing Journalism
For hundreds of years everyone knew the Earth was flat. Indeed it was a heresy to challenge that statement. Eventually someone, Galileo or Copernicus, botheredâ¦
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Auroras: Eye-To-Eye With A Storm Striking Earth's Atmosphere
Hereâs a picture of a geomagnetic storm causing crazy auroras to light up the sky over Newfoundland, as seen from the International Space Station. The ISS isâ¦
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Farthest Galaxy Found, Perhaps
Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the galaxy at almost 13 billion light-years away, making it the strongest candidate for the mostâ¦
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Crocheted Models of Hyperbolic Space
At first she tried knitting - and you can indeed knit hyperbolic surfaces - but the large number of stitches on the needles quickly becomes unmanageable andâ¦
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Understanding Eleven-Dimensional Exploding Black Holes
One of the boldest but least provable claims of string theory is that there are (at least) eleven dimensions, but the seven we’ve strangely failed to notice so…