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Astronomers discover black hole using sun-like star to fire energy bullets
Pictured above is a fascinating find brought to the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting by researchers. The image depicts a black hole named H1742-322 that is intermittently shooting...
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Our galaxy may host millions of Tatooines
While we may not see the discovery of Tusken Raiders in our lifetimes, astronomers have revealed that planets like Tatooine may not be uncommon. That doesn’t, unfortunately, mean that there are...
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12 volume set of books shows how incredibly vast our Solar System is
Our Solar System is, essentially, unfathomably large. We can do visualizations, charts, and all sorts of other things to try to better understand just how large it is, but at the end of…
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Make sure to check out the Supermoon tonight
Weather permitting, tonight may be a good night to take the family outdoors to witness the return of the “Supermoon.” Tonight’s full moon will appear to be 14% larger and 30% brighter than…
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That “ring of fire” solar eclipse you missed this weekend
Some parts of the world got a spectacular sky-based treat yesterday, a “ring of fire” solar eclipse. To see it you had to be in the western United States, eastern Asia, or somewhere…
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Incredible images from yesterday’s transit of Venus
We might have missed the “ring of fire” solar eclipse a few weeks ago, but New York City had prime viewing of the transit of Venus yesterday. For just a few minutes the…
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Vote on which celestial object the Very Large Telescope should look at
In the realm of space photography, the Hubble Space Telescope still has the mind share. However, there are some Earthbound competitors capable of taking some mighty pretty pictures, and you probably...
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A group of astronomers that were studying an enormous red giant star named BD+48 740 have made a startling discovery this week. Looking through the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in hopes of finding planets...
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World’s most advanced giant telescope mirror is completed
What does it take to build the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which will one day the be the largest telescope on Earth, and produce images 10 times sharper than the Hubble? The answer…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson IDs Superman’s home star system
Anyone with a passing familiarity with comic books is aware that Superman comes from the planet Krypton, which orbited a nearby red star. The yellow light from our sun is supposedly the…
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There may be another Earth just 12 light years away
Sun (left), Tau Ceti (right) In 2012 a scientific paper predicted we wouldn’t have to wait much longer to discover an Earth-like planet. Sure enough, a year later the Kepler spacecraft found one…
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Apophis asteroid to pass close to Earth today
If you’re a fan of asteroids, then the name 99942 Apophis will likely mean something to you. It’s an 885-foot-wide asteroid assumed to weigh around 2,727kg 2.7 x 1010kg. When it was discovered…
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Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe
As we all learned from a good book once upon a time, space is big — really big — and we just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. So, when…
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NASA’s Sun Primer is an incredible love letter to the science of light
NASA today released a composite of 48 photos of our sun, each viewing a small and specific slice of its muddy and homogenous emissions. The photo was intended not just to display the remarkable beauty...
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NASA spots comet ISON on its way to inner solarsystem
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) is currently hurtling toward Earth’s general vicinity, and NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft has made visual contact for the first time. The video above is composed of images...
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Animated Google Doodle celebrates revolutionary astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
There was a time when people thought that the Earth was at the center of our solar system. We know today that it isn’t, but the first man to realize and document this…
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Kepler-37b is the smallest exoplanet ever found by astronomers
It seems like astronomers are announcing the discovery of a new exoplanet every other day. It’s almost like there are billions of them up there, right? The most recent exoplanet spotted comes with…
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Two of Pluto’s moons voted to be named Vulcan and Cerberus
Set phasers to awesome. The polls have closed and the votes have been counted. After weeks of online balloting to help pick names for Pluto’s two smallest moons, the winners are Cerberus and…
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Microsoft Worldwide Telescope brings the universe to your computer
Microsoft doesn’t get a lot of credit for being innovative, but its Microsoft Research lab actually develops a ton of awesome technology. Of particular interest to readers of Geek, is sure to be…
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How to watch today’s ‘ring of fire’ eclipse online
Unless you happen to live in or near Australia, there’s a good chance you won’t get to see today’s annular solar eclipse in person. Fortunately, you can catch it online and not even…
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