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Mon March 15, 2010
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(TechnologyReview) Scary Yet another way found the universe plans to kill us all: a passing star swings through the Oort cloud to bombard us with comets. EVERYBODY PANIC... in 1.5 million years  (technologyreview.com) (51)

Fri March 12, 2010
(Ars Technica) Interesting Something from outside our universe is pulling matter towards it in a mysterious "Dark Flow". The Event Horizon has returned  (arstechnica.com) (50)
(The Sun) Unlikely Today's OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE story is about a series of deadly comets being hurled at the Earth by an invisible 'Death Star' in orbit of The Sun, who are of course there  (thesun.co.uk) (61)

Wed March 10, 2010
(Discover) Interesting I made you a galaxy but I eated it  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (19)

Sun March 07, 2010
(Rolling Stone) Sad Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse commits suicide  (rollingstone.com) (80)

Wed March 03, 2010
(DNT) Interesting It's a goat. See it in the sky?  (duluthnewstribune.com) (17)

Wed February 17, 2010
(Discover) Cool New amazing infrared images from a NASA satellite. Come for the comet, stay for the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (11)

Sun February 14, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) Spiffy The Royal Society for Stacking Things On Top of Other Things turns its attention to photons  (physorg.com) (13)

Wed February 10, 2010
(Wired) Cool The coolest pictures of the Orion Nebula you will see today  (wired.com) (17)

Wed February 03, 2010
(Discover) Cool Does this cluster make my mass look fat?  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (13)

Fri January 29, 2010
(Discover) Cool The star that's not brown but really red or possibly blue. And isn't even a star  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (26)
(PhysOrg.com) Cool Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space, nerdy ones relegated to edge of galactic disc  (physorg.com) (10)

Tue January 26, 2010
(The Sun) Interesting Aliens can't see the earth from space, but the Sun is still there  (thesun.co.uk) (86)

Thu January 21, 2010
(New Scientist) Interesting Oh stewardess, I speak alien  (newscientist.com) (225)
(Daily Mail) Cool Coolest photo of the Monkey Nebula you'll see all day  (dailymail.co.uk) (21)
(Telegraph) Cool Mornington Crescent goes galactic  (telegraph.co.uk) (100)

Fri January 08, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Ok, you can all un-panic now, the Milky Way isn't going NOM NOM NOM as fast as we thought  (physorg.com) (29)

Thu January 07, 2010
(Discover) Cool NASA observes a planet covered in water  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (55)

Wed January 06, 2010
(Science Daily) Interesting It turns out our Solar System is in a galactic minority class. Maybe that's why alien vacationers roll up their windows when they pass through  (sciencedaily.com) (39)
(The Sun) Unlikely Astronomers don't want you to lose any sleep over the star that could go supernova and destroy our ozone layer with the force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT  (thesun.co.uk) (108)

Mon January 04, 2010
(Some Guy) Stupid Who cares if Texas turns their science curriculum into Creationist Hour? That won't affect the rest of the country, will it?  (washingtonmonthly.com) (894)
(Discover) Cool Riddle me this: What do black holes, vultures, and your mom have in common?  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (37)
(Yahoo) Misc Gamer pays $300,00 for virtual space station. His imaginary girlfriend is impressed  (videogames.yahoo.com) (49)

Sun December 27, 2009
(Discover) Scary Five years ago today, the Earth suffered a massive cosmic onslaught that farked satellites and partially ionized its atmosphere... from an object 50,000 light years away  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (67)
(PhysOrg.com) Obvious Voyager spacecraft discovers solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist in latest proof that 'scientists' are just making crap up  (physorg.com) (86)

Wed December 23, 2009
(NASA) Interesting Giant fluff cloud currently affecting Solar System, consists mainly of articles from the Daily Mail  (science.nasa.gov) (38)
(MSNBC) Interesting Astronomers theorize on how decrepit, ancient stars manage to look far younger than their actual age. Joan Rivers and Dick Clark beg the astronomers to quit staring at them  (msnbc.msn.com) (6)

Tue December 22, 2009
(New Scientist) Interesting Engaging the X-Drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space. Dr. Richard Seaton unavailable for comment  (newscientist.com) (98)

Wed December 16, 2009
(CBC) Interesting Astronomers find the most Earth-like planet yet. Or a big-ass space mirror. They're not 100% sure yet  (cbc.ca) (78)

Sat December 12, 2009
(Discover) Cool Sure, infrared cameras help you see through people's clothes. But there are other heavenly bodies out there, y'know  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (10)

Fri December 11, 2009
(ABC News) Cool The bend in the Big Dipper turns out to be double dipping  (blogs.abcnews.com) (40)

Tue December 08, 2009
(Discover) Cool Wouldn't you know you it? I'm on a 13.1-billion-year-long flight, so of course the screaming baby galaxy winds up sitting right next to me  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (44)

Sun December 06, 2009
(USA Today) Interesting The universe is in danger of collapsing because matter isn't stable. 14 billion years in and NOW they tell me?  (usatoday.com) (72)

Mon November 30, 2009
(Charles Stross) Interesting Suck it like a salt vampire from M-113, Trekkies: "The entire conceptual framework of the starship is a dangerously misleading dead-end"  (antipope.org) (190)

Wed November 25, 2009
(Discover) Cool Our zombie galaxy feasts on cannibalized corpses. And you thought astronomy was for dorks  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (24)

Sun November 22, 2009
(NASA) Cool Hubble picture of light echoes that makes 70's psychedelic posters look like XKCD  (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov) (55)

Wed November 18, 2009
(PhysOrg.com) Strange If you've lost a box approximately 50,000 light years in size, astronomers are happy to report that they have located it in galaxy NGC 4710  (physorg.com) (73)

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