Astronomical Science

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1. Explosion Illuminates Invisible Galaxy in the Dark Ages

   By Sheila, August 7, 2013
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   • Sheila
   • August 7, 2013

2. Twelve Months in Two Minutes; Curiosity's First Year on Mars

   By Perkil8r, August 2, 2013
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   • Perkil8r
   • August 2, 2013

3. NASA's Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-Rays for First Time

   By Sheila, July 31, 2013
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   • Sheila
   • July 31, 2013

4. Pulsating Star Sheds Light On Exoplanet

   By Sheila, July 31, 2013
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   • Sheila
   • July 31, 2013

5. B-mode polarization spotted in cosmic microwave background

   By Sheila, July 31, 2013
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   • Sheila
   • July 31, 2013

6. Gas cloud ripped apart by a black hole.

   By Daz Type-R, July 17, 2013
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   • Tibbz2
   • July 17, 2013

7. Stellar Monsters Do Not Collide: No Hope for a Spectacular Catastrophe

   By Sheila, July 16, 2013
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   • xanthic
   • July 16, 2013

8. Sun's 2013 Solar Activity Peak Is Weakest in 100 years

   By Sheila, July 16, 2013
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   • Sheila
   • July 16, 2013

9. Levitating Superconductor on a Möbius strip

   By Guest Kheldar, July 15, 2013
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   • dawson
   • July 16, 2013

10. Kepler Kaput?

    By xanthic, May 2, 2013
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    • Tibbz2
    • July 8, 2013

11. Cloud behavior "doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs"

    By Tibbz2, July 2, 2013
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    • Tibbz2
    • July 3, 2013

12. Now Playing: Core Collapse in 3D

    By Sheila, July 1, 2013
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    • Tibbz2
    • July 1, 2013

13. Supernova

    By Sheila, July 1, 2013
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    • Doc
    • July 1, 2013

14. Quasars and stuff

    By Sheila, July 1, 2013
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    • Sheila
    • July 1, 2013

15. Why is it Dark at Night

    By Guest Kheldar, June 26, 2013
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    • Perkil8r
    • June 27, 2013

16. Black Holes Abundant Among the Earliest Stars

    By Sheila, June 10, 2013
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    • xanthic
    • June 10, 2013

17. The Big Snap

    By Guest Kheldar, June 10, 2013
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    • Guest
    • June 10, 2013

18. M57

    By xanthic, June 6, 2013
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    • xanthic
    • June 6, 2013

19. Hole in the Sun

    By Perkil8r, June 4, 2013
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    • Perkil8r
    • June 4, 2013

20. Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic Offers Clues to Possible Life On Mars

    By Tibbz2, May 24, 2013
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    • Tibbz2
    • May 24, 2013

21. New tape measure (VLBA)

    By Perkil8r, May 24, 2013
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    • xanthic
    • May 24, 2013

22. "Huge Rock crashes into Moon"

    By Tibbz2, May 19, 2013
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    • Perkil8r
    • May 22, 2013

23. Warp Speed Scotty!

    By Perkil8r, May 14, 2013
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    • Tibbz2
    • May 14, 2013

24. First X-class flares of 2013

    By xanthic, May 14, 2013
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    • May 14, 2013

25. What happened to antimatter?

    By Craig, May 13, 2013
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    • xanthic
    • May 13, 2013