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Photo: a large star forming nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia within the Milky Way Galaxy

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2010 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the STEREO spacecraft captured this strong coronal mass ejection from the Sun

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2010 6:12 PM | Add Comment

Life-Enabling Molecules Spotted in Orion Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2010 5:51 AM | Add Comment

Catastrophic event in early Universe could explain why galaxies like our Milky Way stop growing

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:20 PM | Add Comment

Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo: artist's impression of an icy exoplanet. "An era of planet discovery is dawning that will see thousands of new worlds identified in the next few years"

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 1:12 PM | Add Comment

Amazing new images beamed back from Mars, "crystal clear views of alien rock formations"

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Galaxy quest: First stunning images from WISE telescope scanning our entire night sky

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2010 10:25 PM | Add Comment

Pluto Discovered 80 Years Ago Today ~ Still a Big Mystery

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2010 4:13 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:42 PM | Add Comment

The Hawaiian sky at night: Stunning moonbow arches over dramatic volcanic landscape

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 9:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:18 PM | Add Comment

Channeling your inner alien? Maybe, scientists say

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an image from the Spitzer Telescope of a region of space called W5

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: moonlit night in Himalayas as bright star Capella rises above Mount Everest

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 9:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Milky Way stretching above the Sahara, in the remote Tassili National Park

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 4:19 PM | Add Comment

Study shows babies of today "could end up training to be space architects"

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 4:05 PM | Add Comment

Longest solar eclipse for 1,000 years turns Sun into a blazing ring of fire

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 9:15 PM | Add Comment

A graphic showing NASA's hunt for Earth-like planets with Kepler

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 1:03 AM | Add Comment

Cassini mission captures Saturn in its natural colors with little sign of the spectacular rings

Posted by kluciole at 1/10/2010 3:39 AM | Add Comment

Cool photo: the Russian Soyuz spacecraft approaches the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2010 3:02 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the glittering metropolis of the cluster galaxy M13; home to over 100,000 stars but only 150 light years across

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2010 2:47 AM | Add Comment

Once in a blue moon ... stargazers savor spectacular lunar wonder on New Year's Eve

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Embers 10,000 times hotter than our Sun left behind by supernova

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 6:15 AM | Add Comment

Rare New Year's Eve 'blue moon' to ring in 2010

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:28 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:13 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Artist's impression of a giant gas planet with an Earth-like moon, similar to Pandora in the new movie "Avatar"

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Star Remnants Retain 'Memory' of Supernova Explosions

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 10:01 AM | Add Comment

Tug of the sun and moon trigger San Andreas tremors

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment

The Real Science of 'Avatar'

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:36 AM | Add Comment

Herschel telescope images show birth of stars 1,000 light years from Earth

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:26 PM | Add Comment

NASA photo: the first flash of sunlight reflects off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:53 AM | Add Comment

Dark matter discovered: Scientists believe they have found elusive particle that makes up 90% of Universe

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:50 AM | Add Comment

Scientists discover Earth-like, water-rich planet

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:04 PM | Add Comment

Photo: time exposure photograph of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Saturn's mysterious hexagon crown lit up as 30-year winter ends

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2009 3:03 PM | Add Comment

The awe-inspiring night sky that makes even Mount Everest look small

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 5:08 PM | Add Comment

Hottest star in the galaxy pictured for the first time, in the Bug Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Ex-Files: British military ends its UFO hot line

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Huge Explosion Reveals the Most Massive Star Known

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2009 11:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the glorious Crab Nebula; this mighty cosmic 'generator' produces energy at the rate of 100,000 suns

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:57 PM | Add Comment

Stellar Fossils from Milky Way's Past Revealed

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a NASA Earth Observatory photo shows the Upsala Glacier, in the Southern Patagonian Icefield

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:21 PM | Add Comment

Astronomers name Scotland's Galloway Forest Park as one of world's best stargazing sites

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:21 PM | Add Comment

Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 3:35 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a detailed view of star birth in the spiral galaxy M83, captured by Hubble

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:39 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stunning New Photograph of Earth from Space

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Milky Way: the colorful center of our galaxy in all its glory

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:23 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Love the imagery in this video: "Meet Me Halfway" by the Black Eyed Peas

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Asteroid passes just 8,700 miles from Earth

Posted by kluciole at 11/10/2009 12:07 PM | Add Comment

A neutron star is born: Stellar core just 12 miles across spotted 11,000 light years away

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2009 6:00 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

NASA's Fermi telescope "uncovers proof of Einstein's famous space-time theory"

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2009 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA concept image shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet that orbits very close to its fiery hot star

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2009 7:05 AM | Add Comment

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory finds "New Record For Most Distant Galaxy Cluster"

Posted by kluciole at 10/22/2009 10:37 AM | Add Comment

This photo from somewhere in the universe did not come with a caption, but it is gorgeous

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 3:46 AM | Add Comment

Article from Luciole friend Seth Shostak: "Weird Ways to Search for ET"

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Jupiter had a temporary moon for 12 years, a comet it snared as it passed by between 1949 and 1961

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:27 AM | Add Comment

A Great Week to See the Milky Way

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2009 12:54 AM | Add Comment

Highway in the sky: the gravitational corridors that could help spacecraft travel the solar system

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:31 AM | Add Comment

Newly fixed Hubble's deep space photos again amaze

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:46 PM | Add Comment

Argentina can lay claim to the world's largest crater field, a volcanic area in Patagonia known as the "Devil's Slope"

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2009 11:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the gorgeous and vast Eta Carina Nebula

Posted by kluciole at 9/7/2009 7:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: astronaut Nicole Stott waves as she pauses during a spacewalk at the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2009 10:58 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Japan's new first lady says her soul rode in a spaceship to Venus

Posted by kluciole at 9/5/2009 5:31 AM | Add Comment

Astronomers photograph most distant black hole in the universe, which is 1 billion times larger than the Sun

Posted by kluciole at 9/2/2009 10:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Suicidal planet seems on death spiral into star WASP-18

Posted by kluciole at 8/27/2009 9:45 AM | Add Comment

Photo: lightning and storms in the night sky behind Space shuttle Discovery

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a simulated image of Saturn's rings with differing colors to represent ring particle sizes in different regions

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:37 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a cloud, known as DR22, bursting with new stars in the Cygnus region of the sky.

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 7:50 PM | Add Comment

Report: NASA can't keep up with killer asteroids

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 10:50 PM | Add Comment

Photos: map illustrating the annual Perseid meteor shower, and photos of the meteor streaks

Posted by kluciole at 8/12/2009 3:20 AM | Add Comment

Strong Perseid Meteor Shower Expected Tonight

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2009 7:40 AM | Add Comment

Surface of Saturn moon Titan "closely resembles" Earth with an assortment of mountains, lakes and volcanoes

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 1:11 AM | Add Comment

Perseid Meteor Shower Might Dazzle

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:41 AM | Add Comment

Photo: space shuttle Discovery rolls out to Launch Pad 39A against a backdrop of dramatic lightning

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 11:02 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Belated posting: UFO cloud! "The giant anvil-shaped cumulonimbus cloud hovering 75,000 feet above Earth, photographed by Space Station astronauts"

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2009 10:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: located above the center of the Medusa galaxy, the 'hair' - made of snakes in the Greek myth - is a tidal tail formed by a collision between galaxies

Posted by kluciole at 8/2/2009 9:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2009 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the newly discovered Soap Bubble Nebula has generated enormous excitement among astronomers

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2009 6:18 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a mosaic of NASA satellite images gives the most detailed true-color image of the Earth ever created

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2009 2:14 AM | Add Comment

Glorious galaxy with an eye and spiralling spokes spotted 50 million light years away by Spitzer Space telescope

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2009 10:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a moon rock brought to Earth in 1969 was taken to the International Space Station to mark the 40th anniversary of the historic first Moon landing

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2009 10:20 AM | Add Comment

Comet smashes hole in Jupiter the size of Earth... and is spotted by Australian amateur stargazer Anthony Wesley

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2009 9:59 AM | Add Comment

2 articles: "Wednesday's solar eclipse pits superstition against science" and "China gears up for longest solar eclipse of the century (6 minutes and 39 seconds of darkness)"

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2009 11:27 AM | Add Comment

The astonishing Omega Nebula -- the star-making machine of the Milky Way

Posted by kluciole at 7/12/2009 1:25 PM | Add Comment

NASA image shows part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2009 3:16 PM | Add Comment

After one of the longest sunspot droughts in modern times, "The Sun Has Spots, Finally"

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2009 12:53 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a complex convective 'dragon storm' in Saturn's southern hemisphere

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:38 PM | Add Comment

Caverns of salt water may lie beneath frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Enceladus

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA image of the Pleiades star cluster

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 2:44 AM | Add Comment

Happy Summer Solstice! -- (unrelated) Photo: image of the moon taken by the Galileo spacecraft

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Photo and article: 'Noctilucent' or 'night-shining' clouds

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 3:05 AM | Add Comment

New images show evidence of ancient Martian lake

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 2:24 AM | Add Comment

Photo: astronaut David Scott emerges from Apollo's command module as it docks with the lunar module, March 6, 1969

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2009 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo from Hubble: Florida's peninsula, plus the 'Tongue of the Ocean'

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 9:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA image showing a slightly distorted gibbous moon intersecting Earth's atmosphere

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2009 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the stars come out for a time exposure in the Lower Yubeng village, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2009 3:24 PM | Add Comment

Space junk raises risks for Hubble repair mission

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2009 10:40 PM | Add Comment

Photos of space shuttle Atlantis lifting off into space

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2009 10:31 PM | Add Comment
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