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Eye on the Sky: Helix Nebula
“A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA has lent to the California Institute of...
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What a Bummer: Palaeontologists, who actually did all that nitpicky work, have determined that DNA lasts for only about 500 years (half life). So that means I’m not getting the ultimate T-rex watch...
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Holy Tatooine: there’s a planet with 4 suns, and two amateur astronomers found it. While binary suns planets are rare, they do exist. Scientist have found approximately 5 of them. But this discovery...
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Eye on the Sky: Galactic Bridge
Located a billion light years from earth this bridge composed of hot gas links two galaxy clusters. Image credits: Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect: ESA Planck Collaboration; optical image: STScI Digitized...
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Eye on the Sky: Our Own Milky Way
Image of the Milky Way as seen from the beach at Cape Leveque, Australia was taken by amateur astronomer and photographer, Mike Selway. The bright orange star just to the right of center, sitting in...
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Eye on the Sky: Soyuz Re-Entry
View from the International Space Station as Expedition 33 begins it’s decent into Earth’s atmosphere. Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams and flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide...
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Eye on the Sky: Star Births
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of stars in the remnants of the gas cloud that birthed them. 3 million years ago the density of the internal knots in the gas cloud, collapsed and the...
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Eye on the Sky: When The Stars Stopped
Whenever you wonder what all that money spent on NASA amounted to, just remember Hubble. It never ceases to provide a wealth of wonderful imagery, and a reminder of just how big existence is. “The...
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Eye on the Sky: Andromeda
This image of Andromeda is via the Herschel Space Observatory (similar to the Hubble Space Telescope). Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own, though still 2.5 million light years away....
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Eye on the Sky: Chelyabinsk Meteor
The Chelyabinsk Meteor exploded over Russian skies Friday morning. The 55 foot chunk of rock injured over a 1,000 people with it’s shock wave alone. The following infographic gives a nice summary of...
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