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Blue Moon over North America

At 9:04 pm Eastern Daylight Time on May 31st, the full moon over North America will turn blue...
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Radio screams from the Sun warn of radiation storms

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Astronomy news // 29 May, 2007 06:05:02
 ESAs SOHO has helped uncover radio screams that foretell dangerous Coronal Mass Ejections, or CMEs, which produce radiation storms harming infrastructure on ground, in space as well as humans in space.

Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past

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Astronomy news // 21 May, 2007 07:05:31
 A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now. The processes that could have produced such a concentrated deposit of silica require the presence of water.

New technique for 'weighing' black holes

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Astronomy news // 16 May, 2007 07:05:20
 ESA's XMM-Newton has helped to find evidence for the existence of controversial Intermediate Mass Black Holes. Scientists used a new, recently proven method for determining the mass of black holes.

Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter

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Astronomy news // 15 May, 2007 07:05:02
 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters.

Cluster makes a shocking discovery

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Astronomy news // 14 May, 2007 06:05:47
 ESA's Cluster was in the right place and time to make a shocking discovery. The four spacecraft encountered a shock wave that kept breaking and reforming - predicted only in theory.

A galactic fossil

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Astronomy news // 10 May, 2007 04:05:13
 How old are the oldest stars? Using ESO's VLT, astronomers recently measured the age of a star located in our Galaxy. The star, a real fossil, is found to be 13.2 billion years old, not very far from the 13.7 billion years age of the Universe. The star, HE 1523-0901, was clearly born at the dawn of time.

NASA's Chandra Sees Brightest Supernova Ever

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Astronomy news // 07 May, 2007 06:05:27
 The brightest stellar explosion ever recorded may be a long-sought new type of supernova, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes. This discovery indicates that violent explosions of extremely massive stars were relatively common in the early universe, and that a similar explosion may be ready to go off in our own galaxy.

NASA's Chandra Sees Brightest Supernova Ever

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Astronomy news // 07 May, 2007 06:05:27
 The brightest stellar explosion ever recorded may be a long-sought new type of supernova, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes. This discovery indicates that violent explosions of extremely massive stars were relatively common in the early universe, and that a similar explosion may be ready to go off in our own galaxy.

COROT discovers its first exoplanet

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Astronomy news // 03 May, 2007 06:05:36
 COROT has provided its first image of a giant planet orbiting another star and the first bit of 'seismic' information on a far away, Sun-like star, with unexpected accuracy.

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