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Roll over Einstein: Pillar of physics challenged. Subatomic particles seem to move faster than speed of light

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2011 3:06 AM | Add Comment

"Once in a lifetime event" -- Check out the supernova in the Big Dipper constellation!

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 12:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the India-Pakistan border, taken by the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 11:44 AM | Add Comment

Scientists in US warn NASA the amount of space junk orbiting Earth is at tipping point

Posted by kluciole at 9/3/2011 4:04 AM | Add Comment

New Mars samples 'unlike any seen before'

Posted by kluciole at 9/2/2011 9:25 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the dark nebula Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2011 12:35 AM | Add Comment

Is this the coolest watch ever made? The 1923 Packard even has a star map!

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2011 9:17 AM | Add Comment

Tempest Milky Way -- "A jaw-droppingly gorgeous video that captures the Milky Way as Earth spins"

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2011 11:13 PM | Add Comment

Surprise! Alien Planet Made of Diamond Discovered

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2011 8:54 PM | Add Comment

Beautiful dust pillar in Eagle Nebula looks like a tornado in space

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2011 10:44 AM | Add Comment

Next issue of Luciole will include tribute to Scott Wannberg; you can submit poems, photos, memories, anything

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2011 12:58 AM | Add Comment

Sad to announce, Luciole's dear mighty contributing poet and friend Scott Wannberg has passed

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2011 12:53 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Astronaut Ron Garan's image of the moon from his window on the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2011 12:13 AM | Add Comment

Incredible images of the Milky Way, home to over 200 billion stars and 50 billion planets

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2011 1:27 PM | Add Comment

What's the age of the moon? It could be waning

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2011 1:04 PM | Add Comment

Newly discovered giant "Necklace Nebula" brightly glows with dense knots of blue, green and red gases

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2011 9:10 AM | Add Comment

The blackest planet: Astronomers uncover alien world so 'extraordinarily dark' it makes coal look shiny

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2011 1:41 AM | Add Comment

Photo: four medaka fish were sent into orbit aboard Columbia in July 1994 to see if the vertebrates would mate in space

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2011 3:43 AM | Add Comment

Incredible image captures thunderstorm passing in front of last week's lunar eclipse on the Greek island of Ikaria

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2011 1:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: ten light-year-wide nebula found in clouds of dust and gas near tail of constellation Scorpius

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2011 7:47 PM | Add Comment

Diamonds in the sky: image of globular star cluster Omega Centauri --15,000 light years away

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2011 1:57 PM | Add Comment

Volcano ash turns Asian lunar eclipse blood red

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2011 1:53 PM | Add Comment

Black holes tell tale of the infant Universe

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2011 1:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: 60 million light-years away in the constellation Corvus, two large galaxies collide

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2011 11:07 AM | Add Comment

Satellite image of Earth shows ash plume from Chile's volcanic eruption

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2011 9:11 PM | Add Comment

Thunderstorms on Earth Hurl Antimatter Into Space

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2011 5:28 AM | Add Comment

Milky Way Galaxy Is Bent Like a Sombrero

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2011 12:07 AM | Add Comment

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Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2011 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Shuttle Endeavour gone forever from space station

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2011 2:38 AM | Add Comment

What galaxies look like when they collide: new "train wreck" atlas

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2011 11:29 AM | Add Comment

Aussie student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie finds universe's 'missing mass'

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2011 4:07 AM | Add Comment

Explosive energy: Black hole jets in "Centaurus A" captured in all their glory

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 9:30 PM | Add Comment

Redshift Survey: Scientists unveil most complete map so far of the universe, extending 380 million light years away

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 4:42 AM | Add Comment

Global photo competition yields incredible images, such as the Milky Way above Australia and Iran

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2011 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a Solar System fountain in Poland

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2011 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Peaks Friday

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2011 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Six Planets Now Aligned in the Dawn Sky

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2011 2:28 PM | Add Comment

New York bookstore stocks only one book, with the author as cashier -- "Ed's Martian Book"

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2011 2:17 PM | Add Comment

Satellite Photographs 'Black Hole' on Earth

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2011 8:24 PM | Add Comment

Big Dipper's Stars Pour on the Shine in Northern Sky

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2011 2:46 AM | Add Comment

New NASA picture illustrates 1,235 planets that could house life

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:34 AM | Add Comment

Technicolor dream planet: Earth as you've never seen it before

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:54 PM | Add Comment

Photo: part of the Tarantula Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2011 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Eye of Sauron: Amazing image of the galaxy center named after Lord Of The Rings

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2011 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: bright blue reflection of nebula NGC 1999, south of the Orion Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2011 8:02 PM | Add Comment

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2011 7:48 PM | Add Comment

Awe-inspiring auroras: the Northern Lights in the skies over Aberdeen

Posted by kluciole at 2/25/2011 8:29 PM | Add Comment

U.S. Must Take Space Storm Threat Seriously, Experts Warn

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2011 8:47 PM | Add Comment

Scientists hope disc of older stars found in Andromeda will reveal the building blocks of our own galaxy

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:42 PM | Add Comment

NASA craft readies for Valentine comet encounter

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2011 4:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Jupiter's moon Europa -- plains of bright ice, cracks that run to the horizon, dark patches containing both ice and dirt

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2011 4:37 PM | Add Comment

Stormy weather around stars creates amazing dust mountain 6,400 light years away from Earth

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 10:09 PM | Add Comment

Love this photo: the colorful supernova remnant IC 443 - also known as the Jellyfish Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: satellite image showing the sky in microwaves

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2011 9:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Orion Nebula captured by telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 9:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA's Hinode satellite captures a solar eclipse

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 9:06 PM | Add Comment

Super fantastic photo: a hemispheric view of Venus courtesy of the Magellan spacecraft mission

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Famous Crab Nebula Shoots Off Mysterious Gamma-Ray Flares

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2011 9:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman rides through snow covered forest in Smilovichi

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2010 9:54 PM | Add Comment

Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2010 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Love this photo! Ice crystals on frozen leaf mimic shining stars in background (Japan)

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2010 9:41 PM | Add Comment

Baby photos from the ultimate edge — a black hole

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2010 7:18 PM | Add Comment

Chubby Galaxy Cluster Suggests Dark Energy Was Stronger Long Ago

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2010 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Stunning new image of sun's surface covered in fiery 'tubes' of plasma

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:46 AM | Add Comment

Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:40 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Biologist: Space Travelers Can Benefit From Genetic Engineering

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:27 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: the Nile is captured by an astronaut on board the International Space Station at night

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Photo: fantastic NASA image shows fast-growing sunspot, crackling with solar flares

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Why the Moon really IS silvery: Lunar surface contains traces of precious metal and is 6% water

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:20 PM | Add Comment

Astronomers find oldest, most remote galaxy ever seen... 13 billion light years away

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 8:55 PM | Add Comment

Astronomers discover new way of spotting planets that were hidden in their star's glare

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2010 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Saturn's Northern Lights: Incredible new NASA images show planet's glowing poles

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 2:09 PM | Add Comment

Cosmic ice sculptures: Incredible shapes in the Carina Nebula as stars sculpt vast clouds of icy gas

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2010 2:03 AM | Add Comment

Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:35 PM | Add Comment

Spectacular image of ancient tree against backdrop of Milky Way wins astronomy photography prize

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2010 1:21 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo, article: 'Star guts' thrown into space in sparkling ring of light from supernova that exploded in 161,000 BCE

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2010 3:36 PM | Add Comment

Goodbye, Mommy. Happy journey to you! Photo: a Japanese space agency picture of the Earth as it rises from behind the Moon

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 2:00 AM | Add Comment

Striking new image of Tarantula Nebula at the heart of one of our closest galaxies

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2010 7:15 PM | Add Comment

Spectacular photo: the Milky Way seen above wind generators in Minnesota

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:54 AM | Add Comment

Stunning new image of two galaxies as they slowly crash into one another over millions of years

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:48 PM | Add Comment

Sun storms may bring northern lights farther south

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the shadow of planet Earth as a dark blue arch rising in the sky behind Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2010 11:27 AM | Add Comment

Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2010 11:17 AM | Add Comment

Just what is a buckyball? "Football-shaped carbon 'buckyballs' found floating in space for first time"

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:49 AM | Add Comment

'Monster' star 10 million times brighter than the Sun discovered by astronomers at center of Tarantula Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 4:34 AM | Add Comment

I could stare at this photo for hours: the bright stars and dark dust of our spiral Milky Way Galaxy above Pulpit Rock in Australia

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:44 PM | Add Comment

A gorgeous recent image of the Pleiades, courtesy of NASA

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:12 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a star-forming region in new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Stargazers in awe as total eclipse arcs across Pacific

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 1:02 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a cloud of baby stars surrounds the star R Coronae Australis

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:51 PM | Add Comment

Our current North Star is Polaris. During much of the time of the ancient Egyptians, it was Thuban (info and photos here)

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 1:19 AM | Add Comment

The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy)

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 4:04 PM | Add Comment

Scientists simulate the sound of the 'God Particle'

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 10:06 PM | Add Comment

NASA spots 'crack' in the universe in the middle of the Milky Way

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:41 PM | Add Comment

The Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) as observed from the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:27 AM | Add Comment

7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Amelia Earhart's Watch Reaches Space Station 82 Years After Historic Flight

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Photo: gullies on the surface Mars taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:31 AM | Add Comment

Massive space storms forecasted as sun awakens from 'deep slumber'

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:27 PM | Add Comment

The red plains of Mars were once covered by a vast ocean

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:57 PM | Add Comment
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