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  1. cybercore

    Largest structure yet seen in the Universe

    BBC News - Planck telescope observes cosmic giants A supercluster of galaxies as it appears in Planck data (l) and in XMM data (r). Such structures contain hundreds of billions of suns The Planck space telescope has identified some of the largest structures ever seen in the Universe...
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  2. cybercore

    Triple Sun seen over China

    Link Removed due to 404 Error Video -->> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20110110/video/vwl-triple-suns-over-china-15af341.html An astronomical phenomenon that appears to show three suns appears above Changchun, the capital city of Jilin Province in northeast China. Two smaller suns appeared...
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    11th-century Egyptian scholar proved Aristotle wrong on optics

    Link Removed Ibn al-Haytham's 11th-century Book of Optics, which was published exactly 1000 years ago, is often cited alongside Newton's Principia as one of the most influential books in physics. Yet very little is known about the writer, considered by many to be the father of modern optics...
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  4. kemical

    Free lightshow

    If you can watch the sky tonight: On Astronomy: Don`t miss this month`s Quadrantid shower - Broomfield Enterprise Apologies for the link...>-)
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  5. kemical

    OMG... Your gonna need a place to hide..

    Would you bet your life in a 1-300 chance? SPACE.com -- Asteroid With Chance of Hitting Earth in 2029 Now Being Watched 'Very Carefully'
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  6. cybercore

    VIDEO Scientists Find What May Be The First Truly Habitable Exoplanet

    Gliese 581g - Scientists Find What May Be The First Truly Habitable Exoplanet The researchers estimate that the average surface temperature of the planet is between -24 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-31 to -12 degrees Celsius). Actual temperatures would range from blazing hot on the side facing...
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  7. L

    So when relaxing from Astronomy, I did a DualBoot Windows 7 and Ubuntu and I also listen to Japanese

    So when relaxing from Astronomy, I did a DualBoot Windows 7 and Ubuntu, I did post some pictures of my setup in General Computing, and I also listen to Japanese music and rate these songs on animenfo radio and chat there, my nickname on animenfo radio is Rukasuzu. I chat on Ubuntu Irc...
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  8. Celestra

    VIDEO Moon and Mars Shots You've Never Seen Before

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  9. reghakr

    First Direct Photo of Alien Planet Finally Confirmed

    A planet outside of our solar system, said to be the first ever directly photographed by telescopes on Earth, has been officially confirmed to be orbiting a sun-like star, according to follow-up observations. The alien planet is eight times the mass of Jupiter and orbits at an unusually great...
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