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Monday, August 12, 2013

Astronomical News

Astronomical News

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy. The Large and Small […]
The Perseid meteor shower is here -- might it be spectacular?
While NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity looks for life-friendly ancient environments on the planet’s surface, a new probe is being prepared for launch to figure out why Mars lost its protective atmosphere.
Comet ISON might be a dud to backyard observers, but a scientific treasure trove to solar system astronomers. 
The Hubble Space Telescope has probed deep into a dense cloud of gas and dust to reveal the light of a stellar birthing.
The sun and the Earth like to flip their magnetic fields, but they do it for very different reasons. Neither seem particularly dangerous, however.









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