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The Extremely Long Odds Against the Destruction of Earth

discovermagazine.com — The Large Hadron Collider, also known as the world’s largest particle accelerator, is about to go online, creating black holes in its hotter-than-the-sun depths. But will these manufactured black holes swallow life as we know it, as many fear?More… (Space)

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An Infrared Glimpse at What’s to Come

blogs.jpl.nasa.gov — Almost everyone has had the frustrating experience of getting lost. To avoid this problem, the savvy traveler carries a map. Similarly, astronomers need maps of the sky to know where to look, allowing us to make the best use of precious time on large telescopes. A map of the entire sky also helps scientists find the most rare and unusual types of oMore… (Space)

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Apollo 14 Astronaut Claims Aliens HAVE Made Contact

dailymail.co.uk — Aliens are real and have made contact with us several times, but it has been covered up for 60 years, according to Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell.More… (Space)

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The North Star Has Revived Itself ... Its No Longer Dying!

physorg.com — Astronomers were watching Polaris in the expectation that they would catch the star switching off its vibrations completely when they made the surprising observation of its revival. Scientists have no idea why this is happening!More… (Space)

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Dark Side of the Moon - on Video

nytimes.com — A NASA spacecraft captured a unique view of the moon passing in front of the Earth as seen from 31 million miles away.More… (Space)

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Instant Moon Base to Be Delivered by Ares Rocket

io9.com — When the Ares V rocket lands on the moon next decade, part of its payload will be a full-functioning, instant moon base that will be ready for a several-month long habitation. At least, if experimental architecture firm Architecture and Vision has anything to say about it. More… (Space)

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Are We Living in a Giant Void? Dark matter may not be real

dailygalaxy.com — A new theory that the Earth is in a "void" in space could dispel the need for theoretical dark matter to explain the unexplainable.More… (Space)

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Coming to you - the search for ET

au.news.yahoo.com — In Australia, the team involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - known as SETI - are about to ratchet up their capacity for analysing the data they collect with improved technology, while at the same time sharing the information with other institutions and the public.More… (Space)

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We're going back, and this time we're going to stay - NASA

news.com.au — Man to live on the moon - "We're going back, and this time we're going to stay,'' S. Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames, said in remarks opening the lunar science conference. "This is the first step in settling the solar system.'' More… (Space)

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Today in History July 20 1969 - First Man on the Moon

youtube.com — The Apollo 11 astronauts made history when the first man is landed on the moon by the United States and Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon leaving the first human footprints in its dusty soil.More… (Space)

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All Wet? Astronomers Discover Most Earth-like Planet Ever

sciam.com — A team of astronomers announced they have discovered the smallest and potentially most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet. Five times as massive as Earth, it orbits a relatively cool star at a distance that would provide earthly temperatures as well, signaling the possibility of liquid water.More… (Space)

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Beautiful Lunar transit of Earth via EPOXI spacecraft

blogs.discovermagazine.com — In late May, 2008, the EPOXI spacecraft, formerly Deep Impact, turned its cameras back to Earth and observed us over the course of a several hours. During this time, from EPOXI’s point of view, the Moon passed directly in front of the Earth! Here's the videoMore… (Space)

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Jupiter’s Red Spot chews up and spits out a storm [PICS]

blogs.discovermagazine.com — Hubble took this sequence of amazing pictures, showing the Great Red Spot — a storm far larger than our entire planet — chewing up and spitting out a smaller, though still ginormous, storm.More… (Space)

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New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes

sciencedaily.com — How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new technique that astronomers have developed. By measuring a peak in the temperature of hot gas in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, scientists have determined the mass of the galaxy's supermassive black hole.More… (Space)

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Early Mars Was All Wet

livescience.com — New observations made by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), currently circling the planet, have revealed evidence that vast regions of the southern highlands of Mars were altered by water in a variety of environments billions of years ago.More… (Space)

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