Astronomical News
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The Perseid meteor shower is here -- might it be spectacular?
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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.
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Comet ISON might be a dud to backyard observers, but a
scientific treasure trove to solar system astronomers.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has probed deep into a dense cloud
of gas and dust to reveal the light of a stellar birthing.
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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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