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• The Biggest Stars in The Universe

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
  Highly educational and impressive results: this animated visual representation of the size of planets and stars. If the Sun is a true enormity compared to our minuscule Earth, what about the other stars who are much bigger: Pollux, Arcturus, Aldebaran, Rigel … red and blue giant stars. The most prodigious of these ...
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• Heavens Above Locates Space Objects Worth Watching [Astronomy]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 818
  Want to wave at the International Space Station as if flies overhead? Web site Heavens Above keeps space freaks and NASA junkies advised of precisely where man-made and naturally occurring objects are orbiting to make tracking their movements a snap. Photo by Adan Garcia . Youll need a telescope to see most ...
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• Astronomy For Teens.

  
  Web Design TB — Authority: 155
  Astronomy is a very serious branch of science, although a lot of people get involved with it when they are very young. Astronomy is a thought-provoking hobby that can show children about the other sciences in general. Certain astronomical subjects inspire kids and movies like Star Wars and they only increase this ...
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• Fake field goal bests the Broncos

  
  TotalBroncos — Authority: 162
  For trickery to work in the NFL, a certain number of planets have to align, and when Jim Zorn and Danny Smith looked out at FedEx Field in the middle of the second quarter Sunday, there they were, all in a row.
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• DVD Review: Star Trek

  
  Screaming Blue Reviews — Authority: 114
  Action-packed reboot of the beloved franchise boldly comes to DVD and Blu-Ray this week. One of the biggest hits of last summer’s movie season – and a giant cause for relief among the franchise’s devoted fans – J.J. Abram’s ( Lost , Mission: Impossible 3 ) re-energizing take on the Star Trek ...
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• Astronomy For Teens.

  
  AQUACHANNEL — Authority: 141
  Astronomy is a very exact branch of science, although many people get involved with it when they are very young. Astronomy is inspiring pursuit that can show children about the other sciences in general. Certain astronomical subjects interest kids and movies like Star Wars and they only increase this interest. Our ...
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• Thirty Days Has September: Cool Ways To Remember Stuff (Hardcover)

  
  Cool Stuff — Authority: 130
  Packaged like the New York Times bestselling “Best at Everything” series, this informative guide is full of tips and tricks for remembering everything from math and spelling rules to tricky science, history, and geography facts. A lovely gift from parent to child and a perfect learning companion to help any ...
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• Wet Wet Wet

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 128
  Tonight is Waters Of Mars , the new Doctor Who episode. So, we must, obviously take a look for clues. Water first appeared near the start of the first ever Doctor Who story, in the form of fog, so we know its pretty significant. S Image by scatterkeir via Flickr hortly after we saw a water manchine in ...
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• Exoplanets Clue to Suns Curious Chemistry [del.icio.us]

  
  Blah, Blah! Technology — Authority: 429
  A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing “lithium mystery” observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. Using ESO’s successful HARPS spectrograph, a team of astronomers has found that Sun-like stars that host planets have ...
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• Extrasolar planet confirmed to have highly tilted orbit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. On May 30, 2009, a Japanese collaboration team led by Norio Narita (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) used the Subaru Telescope’s High Dispersion ...
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• Wet Moon

  
  Asymptotia — Authority: 127
  Aha! So you were thinking the mission last month was a bit of a failure, right? Because there was no big splash (literally) of a plume for the press to gush about? I’m talking about the October LCROSS mission on October 9th that smashed an impactor onto the moon’s surface (at the Cabeus crater) to create a cloud ...
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• Two Earth-sized Bodies With Oxygen Rich Atmospheres Found, But They’re Stars Not Planets

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy of this inconspicuous blue object.Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres — however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone looking for a potential home for alien life, or even ...
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• Exoplanets Clue To Sun’s Curious Chemistry

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Artist’s impression of a baby star still surrounded by a protoplanetary disc in which planets are forming.A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing “lithium mystery” observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. Using ...
  3 days ago

• Bottom-Up Science (miracles pop up everywhere in evolution fairytale)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Evolutionary philosophy is a bottom-up storytelling project: particles, planets, people. Naturalists (those who say nature is all there is) believe they can invent explanations that are free of miracles, but in practice, miracles pop up everywhere in their stories. This was satirized by Sidney Harris years ago in a ...
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• Madagascar Kartz - Xbox 360 (E)

  
  GConsole.info — Authority: 136
  Come on, let’s move it! Experience the zany characters and unique locations of the Madagascar movies wrapped in the over the top fun of arcade style kart racing. Put the pedal to the metal Madagascar style with wacky karts, wild tracks, tons of power-ups and crazy kart racing action! Your favorite Madagascar ...
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• The Transneptunian Massacre…

  
  Chirotic Journal — Authority: 103
  Alfred Witte Today I wish to examine certain of the so-called Transneptunians, those hypothetical points proposed by Alfred Witte, founder of the Hamburg School during the 1920s and 1930s. The fact that the Transneptunian points are not known to physically exist was as much a problem for astrologers back then as it ...
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• You Fools!: Government Convinced Martians Were Going To Make Contact In 1924

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 746
  In 1924, during Marss opposition (when Earth , on its inner orbit, passes between the Sun and Mars) the US Navy sent a telegram alerting all its stations to be on the lookout for possible alien contact from the red planet . WOW! Turns out that during the 1924 Mars opposition--when Mars would be closer to ...
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• Digable Planets in MPLS tonight

  
  Diary of Fools. — Authority: 126
  One of all my all-time favorites that I have yet to see live, until tonight. Interested insects can catch Doodlebug and Butterfly at The Cabooze this eve . In the meantime in between time, heres a link to a free mixtape download featuring remixed classics and a couple new ones. Dig ya later, cats. ...
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• Are Earth’s Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Pacific ocean. Did water come from ice-covered asteroids that may have reached the Earth around one hundred million years after the birth of the planets?Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. ...
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• Anyone Want To See The Flaming Lips Get Attacked By Naked Hipsters?

  
  Deaf Left Ear — Authority: 433
  A few months back The Flaming Lips sent out a bulletin to their fans. They were in need of people not afraid to get naked for their latest video “Watching The Planets”Now the result of that filming has been released on the public and it’s definitely a NSFW video. While watching this thing I wasn’t [...]
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