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  Solar Prominences Put on Strange and Beautiful Show in the Sun's Sky

  July 5, 2013 — Cloud spotting seems to be growing in popularity as a hobby here on Earth. Now scientists studying the solar atmosphere are building their own collection of fascinating moving features that ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Mysterious Radio Flashes May Be Farewell Greetings from Massive Stars Collapsing Into Black Holes

  July 5, 2013 — Mysterious bright radio flashes that appear for only a brief moment on the sky and do not repeat could be the final farewell greetings of a massive star collapsing into a black hole, astronomers ... > full story
• Solar Flare
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  Space Weather Forecast Study Turns Table of Effective Predictions on Its Head

  July 5, 2013 — A comparison of solar flare forecasting systems has turned the performance table of apparently effective prediction methods on its head.  Researchers have tested the reliability of seven ... > full story
• Stars
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  White Dwarf Star Throws Light on Possible Variability of a Constant of Nature

  July 4, 2013 — Astronomers have studied a distant star where gravity is more than 30,000 times greater than on Earth to test the controversial theory that one of the constants of Nature is not a constant. The ... > full story
• Stars
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  Space Study Opens Up New Opportunities to Explore Exotic Energy

  July 4, 2013 — Answering the ultimate question to Life, Universe and Everything? Not quite, but an international team of scientists have conducted research that opens up new possibilities for exploring what to date ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  Cosmology
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  New Knowledge About Early Galaxies

  July 3, 2013 — The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies. Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have ... > full story
• Mars
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  Mars Rover Opportunity Passes Half-Way Point to Next Destination

  July 3, 2013 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than half of the distance needed to get from a site where it spent 22 months to its next ... > full story
• Space Telescopes
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  Revolutionary Instrument Delivers a Sharper Universe to Astronomers

  July 2, 2013 — A unique new instrument at Gemini South in Chile takes the removal of atmospheric distortions (using adaptive optics technology) to a new level. Today's release of seven ultrasharp, large-field ... > full story
• Pluto
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  Names for New Pluto Moons Accepted

  July 2, 2013 — The International Astronomical Union has officially recognized the names Kerberos and Styx for the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto respectively (formerly known as P4 and P5). These names were backed ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks

  July 2, 2013 — Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at 48,000 miles per hour. In May 2013, the comet was 403 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and ... > full story

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