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With the airing of my new favorite show The Universe starting this year I guess you could say that I pay a lot more attention to Space News than I ever have. In doing so I have heard a lot of the stories that have been listed as the Most Amazing Space Discoveries of 2007, […]

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An asteroid that is about the size that hit Siberia, here on Earth, in 1908 has about a 1 in 75 chance of crashing into Mars on January 30. The impact in 1908 unleashed energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb and wiping out 60 million trees. May not sound like a great chance, but […]

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Mars will be closest, and most visible to Earthlings this month than any time until the year 2016. It is brightest right at dusk on the evening horizon, but it is much easier to see around 8 PM. By then, this brilliant yellow-orange world will be at an altitude of around 30 degrees as […]

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After watching the Universe this week I got pretty interested in Black Holes. Particularly the LIGO Machine that was featured in the episode in which it was said they may be able to at some point create microscopic black holes themselves. Funny thing was the first though that came to mind was that we could […]

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Imagine my surprise when I saw a commercial for The Universe last week considering I didn’t realize this show was going to be an ongoing series. I thought it was a one time thing with about 15 episodes and never to be seen again. It is not! Season 2 started yesterday and I was quite […]

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One of the many fears that the End of the World fanatics tend to worry about is the chance that an enormous asteroid will eventually collide with the Earth. Many believe that is what lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and ultimately will lead to our demise.
Scientists have thought that the Apophis Asteroid […]

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Man…I thought the G had too much power…lol
Anyways, Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos is bankrolling Blue Origin, a rocket development company with engineering and manufacturing teams housed in a 280,000 square foot facility on 26 acres in Kent, Washington.
So i guess you really can get ANYTHING at Amazon. Get some discount home theater seating, some video […]

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I know I’ve always been interested in astronomy so i figure there are quite a few iother people that are as well. Since I posted about how Holme’s Comet has basically grown to the size of our sun recently I thought it might be nice to share a remedial course in Astronomy for anyone who […]

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The sun is by far the most massive object in our solar system, but Comet Holmes has recently been viewed as releasing so much gas that now its extended atmosphere, or coma, is larger than the diameter of the sun.
“It continues to expand and is now the largest single object in the solar system,” according […]

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