Over the next decade, several very powerful telescopes will come online. Observing time on these 'scopes will be in high…
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Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Carolyn Collins Petersen (thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter ) Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )…
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Have you ever noticed that everything in space is a sphere? The Sun, the Earth, the Moon and the other…