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A Radio Astronomer’s Paradise

April 1, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Last month a dozen journalists from around North America were guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and got to take a trip to the Atacama Desert in Chile to attend the inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observatory — [...]

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What Keeps Neil deGrasse Tyson Awake at Night?

March 29, 2013

This: And now it keeps me — and most likely you — awake at night too. But in a good way. (Right?) “Imagine another life form that’s one percent different from us, in the direction that we are one percent different from the chimps. Think about that — we are one percent different and we’re [...]

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Friday Night Lights: Fireball Lights Up the U.S. East Coast

March 23, 2013

Last night a bright meteor was spotted up and down the northern mid-Atlantic United States from Maryland to Manhattan to Massachusetts. Streaking across the sky just before 8 p.m. EDT, the fireball was witnessed by thousands — the American Meteor Society alone has so far received over 630 reports on its website from the event. [...]

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The Story of Earth (in 2 Minutes and 20 Seconds)

March 23, 2013

How old is the Earth, how long did it take for life to appear, and how long would it take for your hair to grow to the Moon? Find out in this video from MinuteEarth (a new project by MinutePhysics’ Henry Reich): (Because you always wanted to know how long it would take for your [...]

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A Tribute to MESSENGER

March 14, 2013

If you’re reading this then you probably love space exploration, and if you love space exploration then you know how awesome the MESSENGER mission is — the incredibly successful venture by NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington to orbit and study the first rock from the Sun in [...]

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