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21 February 2013
Gravitational Tractor
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Dan Durda (FIAAA, B612 Foundation)
How would you change the course of an Earth-threatening asteroid? One possibility -... |
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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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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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4 September 2012
Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth
Image Credit & Copyright: John Nelson, IDV Solutions
Should you be worried about hurricanes? To find out, it is useful to know where hurrican... |
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7 March 2013
Thor's Helmet
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Rusterholz (CXIELO Observatory)
This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Hel... |
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23 November 2012
The Pipe Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science)
East of Antares, dark markings sprawl through crowded st... |
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31 August 2012
Halo of the Cat's Eye
Image Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting symme... |
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27 February 2013
Asperatus Clouds Over New Zealand
Image Credit & Copyright: Witta Priester
What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric... |
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6 January 2013
The Dark Tower in Scorpius
Image Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
In silhouette against a crowded star field toward the constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes f... |
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What truths would a wise person pursue?
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A person can become a self-actualizing self-learner and thus reduce the level of naïveté in the world
i believe that the main problem in education systems today is that it's simply a subject... |
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24 January 2013
ISS and the Summer Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Luis Argerich
Clouds on a summer night frame this sea and skyscape, recorded earlier this month near Buenos Aires, Arge... |
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19 January 2013
Barnard Stares at NGC 2170
Image Credit & Copyright: John Davis
A gaze across a cosmic skyscape, this telescopic mosaic reveals the continuous beauty of things that are. The... |
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6 December 2012
47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. Also known as NGC 104, it roams t... |
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11 November 2012
Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality
Image Credit & Copyright: Leonid Durman
Just before the Sun blacks out, something strange occurs. As the Moon moves to complet... |
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9 March 2013
PanSTARRS over Parkes
Image Credit & Copyright: John Sarkissian (CSIRO Parkes Observatory)
Sweeping quickly through southern skies on March 5, Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) follow... |
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23 September 2012
Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice
Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
Yesterday was an equinox, a date when day and night are equal. Today, and every day unti... |
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20 March 2013
M42: Inside the Orion Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Reinhold Wittich
The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astro... |
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8 December 2012
Baku Moonrise
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)
A Full Moon rises in this waterfront scene. Its colorful, watery reflection is joined by harbor lights and a wind... |
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31 January 2013
NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars in the c... |
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28 March 2013
Unraveling NGC 3169
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona
Bright spiral galaxy NGC 3169 appears to be unraveling in this cosmic scen... |
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25 February 2013
Fly Me to the Moons
Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Gibbs (Capturing the Night
Sometimes the Moon is a busy direction. Last week, for example, our very Moon passed in front o... |
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1 November 2012
Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble -- maybe Mac... |
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31 October 2012
VdB 152: A Ghost in Cepheus
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin
Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition", mysterious reflection nebula... |
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11 March 2013
Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Rietze (Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth)
Why does a volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning? Pictured a... |
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