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SiL
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Beautiful pics of Saturn.
Fond an old 50x telescope lying around the house and decided to point it at the moon and a red star. Moon looked great, but clouds passed over the red dot before I could take a look. I'd say it was Mars but I have no freakin' clue.
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You have to get out of here. Your vagina is haunted.
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Can this wait? I need to do some calibrations
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If it doesn't "twinkle" (I forgot the scientific way of saying that) and its Red, its Mars.
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Oh. Yay Mars!
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Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten! |
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Planet discovered that shouldn't existThere are two competing theories for how worlds as large or larger than Jupiter are formed. One is a one-step process involving a rapid collapse of gas around a dense region known as a gravitational instability. The other is a two-step process called the core accretion model involving the birth of a solid core from dust, which later accretes gas around it.
However, neither of these can explain how all four planets might have formed in this system and reached the orbits they have now. Gravitational instability models only work for planets more than 30 AU out, while core accretion models work for those 20 AU in, and the four worlds seen around HR 8799 range both below 20 AU and beyond 30 AU. A hybrid process with different planets originating both ways might have occurred, but the researchers said this seemed unlikely, given their similar masses and dynamics.
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That's no moon planet. It's a...
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Listen to Solar Sailer while going through that flash show. It fits perfectly.
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"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE." |
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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown! It's fascinating. Makes you feel tiny. |
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10 years old canadian finds a supernovaThe Royal Astronomical Society of Canada says Kathryn is the youngest person to make such a discovery, which was soon verified by amateur astronomers in Illinois and Arizona. The finding has been reported to, confirmed and announced by the International Astronomical Union. |
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Well it will be interesting to see the results of the Dawn Mission to Ceres coming soon...2015, soonish  a possible life catering planet (dwarf planet) much like Europa, hopefully. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_MissionFirst up between this year and next is the look at Vesta. |
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There's actually several locations in our solar system where life could be found. Some scientists think there may be microbial life on Enceladus at the south pole where it's amazing water springs are present. Other's believe Mars may have a subterranean cavernous network which may house single cell lifeforms akin to snotites here on Earth. Even Titan could possibly have life in it's rivers and lakes of liquid methane. I want confirmation of life elsewhere than Earth in my lifetime! Is there any way we can start another Space Race to speed things up?!
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