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Meteor strike in Saskatoon

Fox ran a neat story about a meteor strike in Canada.  They ran a neat pic with it.  However, the real thing is much more exciting to watch:

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Flux Transfer Events

Scientists have more or less discovered something that is kind of new.  Sorta. 
During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn’t believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow [...]

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Watch the Taurids!

Just in time to give everyone a relief from the elections, the Taurids apparently will be making a show starting Wednesday.  My own experience with the Taurids is that this is the one to watch.  Although the Perseids get more PR, the Taurids can be a lot more spectacular to watch.  They don’t have quite [...]

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The Messenger Flyby pics

NASA just had a wildly successful flyby of Mercury by the Messenger spacecraft. Here are some of my favorite pics from it:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Now, let’s do that on Titan!

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Much has been made about “faces” on celestial bodies.  There’s the face on Mars that led to all kinds of conspiracy theories:
 
Then of course, there is always the Man in The Moon:
 
Now, we got the Face on Steins:
As Steins turns to leave, I think a very obvious, sad, face appears.
Very cool.

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Traffic on Mars

This is very cool:
 
The picture is of Phoenix landing on Mars and was taken by the Mars Orbiter.  Hard to imagine that there is so much stuff flying around and on Mars that they can now take pictures of each other.

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Watching the Phoenix landing

I’m watching the streaming broadcast of Mission Control handling the Phoenix landing on Mars.  This is very cool!

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A team of Japanese astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton, along with NASA and Japanese X-ray satellites, has discovered that our galaxy’s central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago.
The article then goes on to do what articles, and most usually scientists, do in general.  They dig deeper and deeper into the why’s, what’s, [...]

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Earth and Moon from Mars

This is just an awesome pic:

That’s us and the Moon as viewed from Mars.  Very cool!
H/T Universe Today

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Watch out peeps, things might get cooler before it gets hotter.  According to Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, Merited Scientist of Russia and fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and a staff researcher of the Oceanology Institute, the Earth is entering a cyclical cooling phase.  Researchers are already saying 2008 could be cooler than normal due to the [...]

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