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Astronomers Aim to Grasp Mysterious Dark Matter »
Posted by: guyro 11 months ago in Science & Technology
For the past quarter century, dark matter has been a mystery we've just had to live with. But the time may be getting close ...
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Researchers say that comets likely sparked life on Earth »
Posted by: IsraGeek 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Scientists in Israel performed an experiment that they say indicates that the key elements needed to produce life on Earth likely came from comets that ...
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Who's Taken The Best Photograph Of The Heavens »
Posted by: Mikunited 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
These are some of the shortlisted images in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition organized by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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NASA Telescope Discovers Giant Ring Around Saturn »
Posted by: Zurbin 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
NASA's Spitzer telescope discovers gigantic never-before-seen ring around Saturn.
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The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn ...Read (177) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at abcnews.go.com
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How An Eclipse Occurs According to Islam »
Posted by: Mutainia 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Religion
When reading Quran 36:38-43, it gave me the notion that ther sun and moon were not only orbitting the earth, but, were our seafaring ...
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The Quadrantid Meteor Shower »
Posted by: y_soitenly 11 months ago in Science & Technology
The Quadrantid
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meteor shower is one of the year's best, producing more than 100 meteors
per hour from a radiant near the North Star ...Read (439) | Share | Discuss (5) | Read Full Story at spaceweather.com
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Hubble's High Art: Most Beautiful (and Violent) Images »
Posted by: altnrg 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
"Bad Astronomy's" Phil Plait shares some GREAT astronomy for a change: his favorite Hubble images and his reasons for loving them. Phil also imparts ...
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Space Dust More Pervasive Than Thought | LiveScience »
Posted by: altnrg 9 months ago in Science & Technology
The vast spaces between galaxies might seem pretty empty. But they are actually littered with clouds of cosmic dust that were likely ejected from the ...
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Big Things »
Posted by: Mikunited 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
This is the ultimate size comparison video that you can find on the internet in HD.Starts with the tinyest dwarf planets of our solar ...
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Early galaxies surprise with size »
Posted by: SenorCoconut 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers revise galaxy-formation models with the discovery that early galaxies could have grown fat — fast.
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Images captured of 4 planets outside solar system »
Posted by: STONERS 1 year ago in Science & Technology
Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show ...
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What a mess! Experts ponder space junk problem »
Posted by: Progressive 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
With a recent satellite collision still fresh on minds, participants at a meeting in the Austrian capital this week are discussing ways to deal with ...
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Surprise! Saturn has small moon hidden in ring »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 8 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Scientists have found a new moon hidden in one of Saturn's dazzling outer rings. The international Cassini spacecraft spotted the moon, which measures about ...
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Most Distant Detection Of Water In The Universe »
Posted by: cliff99 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date. The water vapour is thought to be contained in a jet ...
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New Understanding Of The Origin Of Galaxies Advanced »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 10 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2009) A new theory as to how galaxies were formed in the Universe billions of years ago has been formulated by Hebrew ...
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