Newfound alien planet meting under heat of own sun

Source: FOX News

A potential alien planet that is so close to its parent star that it appears to be disintegrating from the scorching heat was recently found by a team of astronomers. The planetary candidate is only slightly ...
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Multi-Spectral, Composite View Reveals the Pinwheel Galaxy

Source: Softpedia

Using data from a multitude of observatories, researchers have recently been able to collect an amazing image of the famous Pinwheel Galaxy, which is also known to astronomers as M101. Four NASA telescop ...
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Return Of The Big Gay Apocalypse

Source: Firedoglake

Exactly three and a half years after Michael Savage declared that support for Prop 8 meant that America is “probably 50 leagues below the degeneracy that brought about Hitler” and that “[i]t is why we’re melting down as a nation,” corrupt evil di ...
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"Welcome to the Universe" at the Adler | Film review

Source: Time Out Chicago

"Welcome to the Universe," the new short film screening in the domed Grainger Sky Theater, uses actual images and data gathered by satellites and telescopes. This view from "Welcome to the Universe" shows Ear ...
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MIB III, Time Travel, and The Book of Life

Source: The Christian Post

E. J. Dionne, a liberal columnist for The Washington Post, suggested in a ... Popular culture, with its emphasis on the new and immediate, reliance on ... I want to reflect on what new people can do right in comin ...
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Pop Art's Pop: Illustrator Winsor McCay, a neglected American master

Source: City Journal

The most gifted illustrator of his time has become as obsolete as the linotype machine and the rotogravure. Scholars remember Winsor McCay, of course. So do collectors: one of his full-color drawings recently wen ...
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The Bonus Riddle

Source: Tom's Astronomy Blog

Happy Friday, and welcome to our 7th bonus riddle. This cycle was Tom’s work almost exclusively, and there is absolutely no doubt in anybody’s mind that the man can rock the riddles! The people eligible to submit their three guesses by email to me or to ...
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Photo of the Day: May 25, 2012 – Nasa’s view of the Pinwheel Galaxy

Source: Montreal Gazette

This NASA image obtained May 25, 2012, of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space telescopes. The view shows that both young and old stars are evenly ...
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Africa's dark-sky reserve is a stargazers' heaven

Source: MSNBC

The NamibRand Nature Reserve, a private nature reserve in southern Namibia, has gotten the stamp of approval to become an official night sky reserve — a spot supremely suited for some of the best stargazing on Earth. The sprawling park, which ...
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