December 2011
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As of Thursday ,December 8th, 2011at 10:45 AM,... →
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Alien Planet Warps Its Solar System
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An alien planet circling around a distant star has caused a disk of debris around the system to warp into crookedness, scientists find. The study could help illuminate the complicated mechanics at work inalien star systems. Astronomers had originally thought a second planet in the Beta Pictoris system might have caused the warp in the debris disk surrounding the star,...
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Dark alien planet discovered by NASA →
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Scientists are unsure what causes the planet to be so dark, but they believe it could be ‘a chemical we haven’t even thought of yet.’
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Milky Way over Switzerland
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Milky Way over Switzerland
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Exploding Black Holes -- "Gamma Ray Burts Yield... →
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Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest things to happen to the Universe since its beginning — extraordinarily intense electromagnetic events releasing more energy per second than the sun does in a billion years, and basically an excuse for astronomers to use every awesome adjective they know.
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The Cosmic Web: A Vast Universe of Linked Galaxy... →
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This deep image of the Virgo Cluster comprises approximately 1300 to 2000 member galaxies, forming the heart of the larger Local Supercluster, of which the Local Group is an outlying member.The image shows the diffuse light between the galaxies belonging to the cluster. North is up, east to the left. The dark spots indicate where bright foreground stars were ...