"Explanation: These are galaxies of the Hercules Cluster, an archipelago of island universes a mere 500 million light-years away. Also known as Abell 2151, this cluster is loaded with gas and dust rich,...
The solar eclipse that will occur on July 22, 2009, will be a total eclipse and also the longest of the 21st century. The best place to watch the eclipse will be in China, and some astronomers and enthusiasts are already planning their trip over there. Also check out...
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A green Comet called Lulin is set to pass by Earth next week, and the way that it travels looks like it is going backwards. This will be the only trip toward the sun that Lulin will take from the outer reaches of...
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"It May Be Like The One The Wise Men Saw Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | Science News with Edit (The Associated Press) From Greenville Online: If you haven’t seen the southwestern sky just after sunset, and even if you have, feast your eyes tonight — it may...
16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus can finally rest in peace now that his body has been positively identified through the miracles of modern science. A body thought to be that of the (very) late...
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"Small asteroid headed for light show over Africa"" WASHINGTON (AP) -- A small asteroid was headed for a fiery but harmless dive into Earth's atmosphere early Tuesday morning over Africa, astronomers said...
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Charles Darwin created a big controversy with his evolutionary theory and powerful church leaders castigated him. Now after 126 long years Church of England has realised their mistake and agreed to issue an an apology. Darwin in his theory had said that man descended from the...
"Astronomers are puzzled by the discovery of a pulsar with an unusual orbit never before seen in similar fast-spinning neutron stars that beam regular pulses of radio waves.Pulsars usually have a circular orbit around white dwarf stars, but the newly found object travels in...
I must admit that I always thought that it was strange that when people in the USA and the UK had "strange encounters" they claimed that they had seen aliens from space while people in Ireland and much of Europe claimed that the had seen the "Blessed Virgin"....
There is a new star in the sky – and it’s located in the Big Dipper! The new star is a white dwarf star that was discovered at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas in Austin."May 2, 2008...
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Boston, Massachusetts (ANTARA News) - Planets resembling Earth can be found orbiting many sun-like stars in our galaxy, increasing the prospects of finding extraterrestial life on some of them, according to a study released Sunday.University of Arizona astronomer Michael...
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An amazing, exciting discovery, published by pravda.ru/But first, we should remember why "Diamonds are Forever"...diamonds would be worthless without De Beers diamond empire, the most successful advertising...
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It will be interesting to view this as a televised asteroid attack if scientists are proven correct in their assertion that an asteroid impact on Mars would be on a scale of 15 megaton nuclear bomb. ...
"Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said a fifth planet had been found circling 55 Cancri, a star located 41 light years from Earth in the Cancer constellation.
Geoff Marcy, an astronomer...
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