April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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EarthSky’s Meteor Shower Guide for 2012 →
Apr 28th
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Japan Astronomers Find Most Distant Galaxy Cluster →
Japanese astronomers said Wednesday they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered.
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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On This Day...
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990.
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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The Only Satellite Ever Destroyed by a Meteor →
Of the roughly 8000 satellites that have been launched, which would seem to result in a veritable shooting ground for meteors, only one has ever been hit and subsequently destroyed by such a force.
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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Becky Ferreira is a comedy nerd, pioneer of Paleocosmology (study of dinosaurs in space), and overall epic chick.
Apr 21st
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Best Reddit Comment Ever
TTR0’s epic comment on Ron Garan’s IAmA NASA Astronaut that recently returned to Earth after a 1/2 year in space. I’m brand new to reddit (like hours ago) AMA If the dinosaurs had a space program, we’d all be in trouble. Human-Dinosaur tensions would mount as they developed a rocket capable of achieving high orbit. An arms race would ensue, followed by the stalemate...
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Dinosaurs in Space: A Paleocosmological Rebuttal  →
Great commentary on the recent assertions made by Ronald Breslow’s “Evidence for the Likely Origin of Homochirality in Amino Acids, Sugars, and Nucleosides on Prebiotic Earth” Last week, chemist Ronald Breslow made a splash the size of the Yucatan crater with the greatest non-sequitur in the history of academic papers: he decided that the concept of chirality (that is, a...
Apr 18th
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Must-See Solar Flare Explodes From Sun’s Surface [video] The sun is currently entering a time of renewed activity, following a quiet period in its 11-year solar cycle. Peak action is expected from early- to mid-2013. Though it is predicted to be one of the least active cycles in the last 100 years, we have already witnessed several massive flares this year. It’s like a celestial...
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan
Apr 18th
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