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Are Black Holes Planet Smashers?
[/caption] Some supermassive black holes are obscured by oddly shaped dust clouds which resemble doughnuts. These clouds have been an…
Are Pluto and Eris Twins?
[/caption] Back a couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article highlighting the debate between scientists on which dwarf planet…
Latest Images of Comet Elenin: Not Much to See
[/caption] A series of images of Comet Elenin taken on October 21, 2011 might show an “extremely faint and diffuse…
All-Sky Camera Captures Mysterious Flashes
Every couple of weeks or so a strange flash appears on an all-sky camera that searches for meteors. What could…
Why is Tonight’s Full Moon the Smallest of the Year?
[/caption] Think we can only see half of the Moon's surface from Earth? Not always. Over the course of the…
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Book Review: The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane
[/caption] The space shuttle program is over. The orbiters are being decommissioned, stripped of the components that allowed them to…
Did The Draconids Perform?
[/caption] After weeks of speculation of its intensity, the Draconid/Giacobond meteor shower finally arrived. Some astronomers predicted that this normally…
Stunning Timelapse Video of Earth and Sky, Volume 2
Almost a year ago we featured a timelapse video by videographer Dustin Farrell that showed the beauty of our Earth…
Buried Treasure: Astronomers Find Exoplanets Hidden in Old Hubble Data
[/caption] Over the past 21 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has gathered boatloads of data, with the Hubble archive center…