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6 September 2012
Airglow over Italy
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
In this serene night skyscape, the Milky Way's graceful arc stretches over prominent peaks in the Ital... |
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14 November 2012
Our Story in One Minute
Video Credit & Copyright: MelodySheep, Symphony of Science, John Boswell; Music Credit: Our Story
Could you tell the story of human existence in a m... |
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17 September 2012
A Solar Filament Erupts
Image Credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO AIA Team
What's happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual -- it just threw a filament. At the end of last month... |
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31 December 2012
Saturn's Rings from the Dark Side
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
What do Saturn's rings look like from the dark side? From Earth, we usually s... |
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8 October 2012
Spherical Planetary Nebula Abell 39
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona
Ghostly in appearance, Abell 39 is a remarkably simple, s... |
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4 December 2012
In the Center of Saturn's North Polar Vortex
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
What's happening at the north pole of Saturn? A vortex of strange an... |
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16 December 2012
MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Tuthill (Sydney U.) & James Lloyd (Cornell)
What could cause a nebula to appear square? No one is quite su... |
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Nature & GeographyglOBaL waRMInG
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I'm currently reading an article in National Geographics. Its fact, not fiction and it isn't in the future, its now. Tempurture readings have been taken around the world and compared with pa... |
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30 December 2012
Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Image Credit: J. Morse (Arizona State U.), K. Davidson (U. Minnesota) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when... |
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26 November 2012
Wisps of the Veil Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Joaquin Ferreiros
Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 9,000 years ago that star explode... |
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15 December 2012
When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard (Los Cielos de America), TWAN
From a radiant point in the constellation of the Twins, the an... |
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20 October 2012
Zodiacal Light and Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
Ghostly apparitions of two fundamental planes in planet Earth's sky span this October all-sk... |
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25 November 2012
Dark Sand Cascades on Mars
Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA
They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not. Groups of dark brown streaks have been pho... |
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28 October 2012
Doomed Moon of Mars
Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA
This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Dei... |
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17 November 2012
Like a Diamond in the Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro, TWAN)
A dark Sun hung over Queensland, Australia on Wednesday morning during a much anticipated... |
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25 September 2012
Unusual Spheres on Mars
Image Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA
Why are these strange little spheres on Mars? The robotic rover Opportunity chanced acr... |
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12 November 2012
Meteor and Moonbow over Wallaman Falls
Image Credit & Copyright: Thierry Legault
Which feature takes your breath away first in this encompassing panorama of land and sky? Th... |
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9 November 2012
Melotte 15 in the Heart
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano Cancelli, Paul Mortfield
Cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 18... |
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2 September 2012
RBSP Night Launch
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Killian
This graceful arc traces a Delta rocket climbing through Thursday's early morning skies over Cape Canaveral Air... |
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Life & DeathSoul: Born or Grown
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In life you go down a path, If a kid smokes a cig one day for one second and doesnt again he simply tried a cig, If he tries it one day then tries it the next for the next month, is he considered a sm... |
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23 December 2012
Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
Image Credit & Copyright: A. Dimai, (Col Druscie Obs.), AAC
Comet Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1997, became much brighter than any surr... |
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4 October 2012
NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, in the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. Its last... |
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16 February 2013
Sweeping Through Southern Skies
Image/Video Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro, TWAN)
For now, Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6), and Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) are sweepin... |
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26 February 2013
Coronal Rain on the Sun
Video Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, SVS, GSFC, NASA; Music: Thunderbolt by Lars Leonhard
Does it rain on the Sun? Yes, although what falls is not w... |
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22 October 2012
A Space Shuttle on the Streets of Los Angeles
Credit & Copyright: Bryan Chan, Los Angeles Times; Music: Keeper of the Wind (Eleni Hassabis, Firstcom)
Was that the space shutt... |
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