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Dec 31, 2014

Here is the list of the top 5 Things that you did not know about the planet you are currently living on. Unless of course you are watching this in the future from a survival camp on Mars! ...

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Sep 28, 2014

There is many different types of stars in the universe. Majority of them are red dwarf stars. However, there are plenty of stars like ordinary stars (like our sun), red giants, blue stars and etc. Fur ...

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Sep 26, 2014

Extraterrestrial life is life that does not originate from Earth. It is also called alien life, or, if it is a sentient and/or relatively complex individual, an "extraterrestrial" or "alien" (or, to a ...

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Oct 16, 2012

Red Bull Stratos sent the first skydiver to space in a weather balloon this past weekend. Free-fall jumper Felix Baumgartner reached 24 miles in altitude in the Earth's upper stratosphere before he le ...

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Jul 29, 2012

For years, astronomers have been trying to figure out how our galaxy came to be. Even with the help of high-performance computers, no model of a spiral galaxy has ever been able to recreate the Milky ...

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Jul 27, 2012

Who uses Yahoo! Image Search, you ask? Scientists apparently.A team of astronomers from NYU and Princeton recently scoured the service for photos of Comet Holmes, which came within spotting distance i ...

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Jul 5, 2012

Right now, Jupiter and Venus are rising in the early morning hours just before dawn. I went outside on the morning of the 4th of July and saw Jupiter and Venus right next to each other with the Pleiad ...

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May 21, 2012

I managed to take a few snapshots of the solar eclipse in the Malibu area, where it was just a partial. Just wanted to share a few. I've still got the same setup as when I took my supermoon pics, but ...

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May 21, 2012

The annular solar eclipse was amazing. It was so much fun watching the sun transform from a thin crescent to a ring and then to a thin crescent going the other direction. I'll be posting up the pictur ...

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May 20, 2012

It's taken me several weeks to figure out the  Meade Coronado SolarMax II 60 Double Stack telescope that I bought to produce a timelapse video of the solar eclipse but I'm pretty happy with the images ...