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Astronomy News
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News on Astronomy continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
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Astronomers staring at the sun hope to see dark matter
The evidence for dark matter has come from big objects, generally starting at galaxy-sized and going up from there to the structure of the Universe itself.
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Asteroid Near-Misses Happen All Of The Time
In case you do not easily panic, you may have missed the story that two asteroids were passing close to Earth yesterday.
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HLX-1: Extreme X-ray source supports new class of black hole
A group of international astronomers in the UK, France and the USA, led by the University of Leicester, have found proof to confirm the distance and brightness of the most extreme ultra-luminous X-ray source, which may herald a new type of Black Hole.
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Mega-volcanoes might be detectable on alien Earths
If a volcano with the explosive power of 600,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs blew up on a planet 30 light-years away, would we notice? Nope, considering that nearly all the exoplanets cataloged so far have been discovered by their invisible gravitational tug, or shadows from stellar transits.
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Astronomy Book for Every 3rd Grade Class in VA
A University of Virginia astronomy club created a book to get kids interested in the sciences.
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