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• Astronomers Find Three Smallest Planets Outside Solar System

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2012) — a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. the three planets, which all orbit a single star, are smaller than Earth and appear to be rocky with a ...
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• Incredible time lapse: Milky Way over Africa

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 673
  This video is only 20 seconds long, but wow. Simply, wow. [Note: Ive noticed sometimes the video wont load and you get a black space. Try hitting refresh, or just click the link in the next sentence.] This was created using a series of still images from the International Space Station on December 29, 2011, over ...
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• ISS Soars Over Stormy Africa

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 659
  Here’s a quick but lovely little gem: a time-lapse video taken from the ISS as it passed above central Africa, Madagascar and the southern Indian Ocean on December 29, 2011. The nighttime flyover shows numerous lightning storms and the thin band of our atmosphere, with a layer of airglow above, set against a ...
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• First-Ever Image of a Black Hole to be Captured by Earth-Sized Scope

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 659
  Spitzer telescope view of the galactic center. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy) “Sgr A* is the right object, VLBI is the right technique, and this decade is the right time.” So states the mission page of the Event Horizon Telescope , an international endeavor that will combine the capabilities of over 50 radio ...
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• Microlensing Survey Finds A Multitude Of Planets

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  [ Watch the Video ] Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way. after a six-year search that ...
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• Predictions about the Unique Alignment on the Solar System

  
  Vote 4 The USA — Authority: 120
  Do you really believe that the end of the world will actually happen on December 21, 2012? There are people who believe that it will happen and there are also people who simply wanted to move on with their life. They often take this kind of issue as a joke because they do not want [...]
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• FBI vs ODB

  
  ~o ~o ~o SeMeN SPeRmS BLArRrG! o~ o~ o~ — Authority: 110
  ✰ I Got Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI File Some gems include: “The WTC is heavily involved in the sale of drugs, illegal guns, weapons possession, murder, carjacking and other types of violent crime.” [p5] Connections to the murder of Robert “Pooh” Johnson and Jerome “Boo Boo” Estrella. [p6] Connection ...
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• Citizen Scientist Project Finds Thousands of ‘Star Bubbles’

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 659
  A prominent star bubble. Credit: NASA / The Milky Way Project / Zooniverse Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that too. The “bubbles” are partial or complete rings of dust and gas that occur around young stars in active star-forming regions, known as ...
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• First Photograph of a Black Hole Could be Coming Soon

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 730
  Scientists have long known about the existence of black holes but they’ve never actually been able to see one. Black holes are typically invisible because the immense gravity sucks in all the light. Researchers are hopeful, however, that the new Event Horizon Telescope will be able to capture the first photograph ...
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• Radio telescopes to try taking first photo of black hole

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  London, Jan 16 (IANS) A radio telescope project that would connect up to 50 telescopes scattered around the globe could help photograph a black hole for the first time, scientists have said.The radio telescopes would include those on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii and also a dish at the South Pole, the [...]
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• Sprint

  
  Smoat — Authority: 143
  Gerrans excited by Tour Down Under course – Sydney Morning Herald That honour goes to 24-year-old Norwegian phenomenon Edvald Boasson Hagen, who is making his Tour debut. Boasson Hagen can climb and sprint and won two Tour de France stages last year. He and Gerrans were team-mates at Sky last year and the ...
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• Scientists Convene to Take a Picture of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 126
  It might sound like science-fiction, but on Wednesday January 18th, astronomers, physicists, and scientists will convene in Tucson, Arizona, to discuss a feat that would have been considered ludicrous just a couple of years ago. They plan on taking a picture of a black hole. Read more @ SciTechDaily Filed under: ...
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  Milky Way’s True Colors Revealed Astronomers at the University of Pittsburgh say they have determined the exact color of the Milky Way Galaxy as it is seen from other far away galaxies. Findings indicate that the Milky Way is redder than most spiral galaxies but when combined with its blue arms its overall ...
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• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on Double Nucleus in Andromeda Galaxy

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 510
  Written by Tod R. Lauer National Optical Astronomy Observatory Tucson, AZ - A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other ...
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• Pictures of the Week, January 6 – January 13

  
  TIME.com — Authority: 649
  From violence in Syria to the New Hampshire Republican primary and Uttar Pradesh’s giant stone elephant statues, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
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• Some Comets like it Hot

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 510
  Written by Dr. Tony Phillips Science at NASA Washington, D.C. - Comets are icy and fragile. They spend most of their time orbiting through the dark outskirts of the solar system safe from destructive rays of intense sunlight.  The deepest cold is their natural habitat.Last November amateur astronomer Terry ...
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• 2012 Alignment of Planets

  
  Vote 4 The USA — Authority: 120
  Article by Luis Bezanilla The most commonly discussed alignment in 2012 deals with only the Milky Way, the Sun, the Earth and Venus. There is actually more than one 2012 alignment to consider. Viewed from the Earth, our solar system has high and low locations of planets and start clusters. As we stand on the [...]
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• 01.13 Ricco Barrino – Twenty 12 Play (Hosted By DJ E Sudd) (2012)

  
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  Artist : Ricco Barrino Album : Twenty 12 Play (Hosted By DJ E Sudd) Average Bitrate : 128 kbps Source : CD (LP) Label : Grand Hustle Year : 2012 Genre : R&B Ripper : ??? Rip date : 2012-01-13 Store date : ...
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• Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 128
  There are more exoplanets further away from their parent stars than originally thought, according to new astrophysics research. In a new paper appearing in the Jan. 12 edition of the journal, Nature,...
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• Astronomers Hypothesize that Milky Way Might Be Teeming with Planets

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 126
  In the past, astronomers had no evidence that there were planets orbiting other stars. Now, they estimate that the Milky Way might contain huge numbers of planets, with rocky, Earth-sized worlds outnumbering the rest. Read more @ SciTechDaily Filed under: blogs , science , technology Tagged: astronomy , ...
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