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“If you grew up thinking there were nine planets and were shocked when Pluto was...”
– Up telescope! Search begins for giant new planet - Science, News - The Independent (via robot-heart)
August 2010
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Hi everyone, I apologize for the lack of updates over the past couple months, I’ve been really busy. I start classes at southwest minnesota state university monday, so I still probably will be too busy to post all the time. if you’d like to be post just email me at dear.hannahh@gmail.com and I will be more than happy to invite you. We also accept submissions, there’s a link on...
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July 2010
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June 2010
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Voyager 2 at 12,000 Days: The Super-Marathon... →
NASA’s plucky Voyager 2 spacecraft has hit a long-haul operations milestone today (June 28) — operating continuously for 12,000 days. For nearly 33 years, the venerable spacecraft has been returning data about the giant outer planets, and the characteristics and interaction of solar wind between and beyond the planets. Among its many findings, Voyager 2 discovered Neptune’s Great...
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Astronomers witness a star being born →
Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star formation and has just begun pulling in matter from a surrounding envelope of gas and dust. Scientists found the object using the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Known as...
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Hey guys! I’ve been busy finishing up school and getting ready to start college in the fall, but I’m a lot less busy now so I’ll make sure to post more! I sincerely apologize for the lack of updates.
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As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space...
“The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we’re getting together to discuss.”
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PS. There is a nifty little video within the article
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Physicists observe change in neutrinos, unlocking... →
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For the first time, physicists have confirmed that certain subatomic particles have mass and that they could account for a large proportion of matter in the universe, the so-called dark matter that astrophysicists know is there but that cannot be observed by conventional means.
May 2010
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“I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in...”
– Eugene Cernan, astronaut and moonwalker, Life magazine, November 1988
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