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PoetryLast of the good memorys and smiles of summer
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I got a postcard from you, it read your having good times without me and your new friends know how to live. I knew that somehow our petty little dreams wouldn't go far.
Faithfullness in fairy ta... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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27 November 2012
Bright Jupiter in Taurus
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
That bright star you've recently noticed rising just after sunset isn't a star at all. It&#... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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21 September 2012
September's Aurora
Image Credit & Copyright: Fredrick Broms (Northern Lights Photography)
September's equinox arrives tomorrow as the Sun crosses the celestial eq... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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5 December 2012
Plasma Jets from Radio Galaxy Hercules A
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Baum & C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF),
and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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24 December 2012
Hyades for the Holidays
Image Credit & Copyright: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light)
Recognized since antiquity and depicted on the shield of Achilles according to Homer,... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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28 December 2012
NGC 6188 and NGC 6164
Image Credit & Copyright: Kfir Simon
Fantastic shapes lurk in clouds of glowing hydrogen gas in NGC 6188, about 4,000 light-years away. The emission ne... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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30 November 2012
Clouds in Cygnus
Credit & Copyright: Image Data - Bob Caton, Al Howard, Eric Zbinden, Rogelio Bernal Andreo;
Processing - Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Cosmic clouds of gas and dus... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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16 October 2012
A Spiral Nebula Surrounding Star R Sculptoris
Visualization Credit: ALMA Observatory (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
What's happening around that star? An unusual spiral structure has been... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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7 February 2013
Comet Lemmon near the South Celestial Pole
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory)
Currently sweeping through southern skies, Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6)... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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19 September 2012
Leaving Vesta
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS, DLR, IDA
Next stop: Ceres. Last week the robotic Dawn spacecraft ended its year-long mission to asteroid Vesta, becomi... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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10 November 2012
Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
Image Credit: Gemini Observatory, AURA, Travis Rector (Univ. Alaska Anchorage)
NGC 660 is featured in this cosmic snapshot, a sharp composite of broad a... |
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AstronomySugar Found In Space: A Sign of Life?
2 Posts • 2368 Views
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simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.
The molecules that the team detected in space are the simplest... |
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AstronomySounds of Space: "Chorus" radio waves within Earth's magnetosphere
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'Chorus', also known as 'dawn chorus', are naturally occurring electromagnetic radio wave/s emitted from the Earth’s magnetosphere that are audible by the human ear. These r... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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8 November 2012
Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Bill Snyder (Heavens Mirror Observatory)
In this stunning vista, based on image d... |
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SocietyInsanity: Two Dogs Are Wed For Fundraiser
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So this occurred last month (July) in New York as a fundraiser event to raise money for the 'Lucky Diamond Critical Care Ward' of the Humane Society of New York. Tickets to attend the presti... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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7 November 2012
Superstorm Sandy From Formation to Landfall
Image Credit: NASA, GOES-13 Satellite
It was the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. The cost of its devastation is... |
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SocietyThoughts on the School Shooting in CT
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Santa arrived with presents for all of us :
Grief is a complicated thing
Robbie Parker's grief and the present he brought for himself:
In January, I read a post about Emilie’s fun... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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27 December 2012
Curiosity Rover at Rocknest on Mars
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, MAHLI
What's in this smooth soil on Mars? In late October, NASA's robotic Curiosity rover st... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 83393 Views
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20 December 2012
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler, Subaru Telescope (NAOJ)
Image data: Subaru Telescope, Robert Gendler, Brigham Young University Obs., Johann... |
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In The NewsTurkish Abortion Debate Renewed After Nevin Yildirim Beheads Alleged Rapist
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A 26-year-old Turkish woman, who was impregnated by her rapist, reportedly shot and beheaded her alleged attacker to protect her honor. The case has forced the country into a new round in the intensif... |
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StoriesSex Ed
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Sex Ed
a short story by Wolf Larsen
It was the first day of our sex ed class in high school in some typical American city.
Many of us were hoping we were about to learn what we had been doing... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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4 February 2013
Namibian Nights
Video Credit & Copyright: Marsel van Oosten; Music: Simon Wilkinson
Namibia has some of the darkest nights visible from any continent. It is therefore home to... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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2 November 2012
The Black Hole in the Milky Way
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, NuSTAR project
At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, a mere 27,000 light-years away, lies a black hole with 4 mi... |
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War & TerrorismOh God... Not again.
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http://www.truemajority.org/be nsbbs/
On a 2012 forum, someone said that they found evidence that Bush wanted to go to war with both Iraq and Iran before he was even president and him and his cronie... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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3 December 2012
A Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Spain
Image Credit & Copyright: Dani Caxete
Sometimes falling ice crystals make the atmosphere into a giant lens causing arcs and halos to appear... |
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