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Massive Black Hole Bubbles Detected At Core Of Our Milky Way?

James Miller
Astronomy professor Doug Finkbeiner, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, speculated recently that the 25,000 light-year long gamma rays emissions north and south of the Milky Way’s core might in fact be caused by an …
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2012 Mayan Doomsday Prophecy Innacurate According To Astronomers

James Miller
This week astronomers released some bitter/sweet news for the legion of believers who held stock in the December 12, 2012 Mayan Apocalypse prediction, after it was announced that the scientists responsible for converting the ancient …
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Earth-Like Planet Gliese 581g Discovered 20 Light-Years Away In Libra

James Miller
On Sept. 29th 2010, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Steven Vogt and his team of scientists made the exciting announcement they had detected the presence of an Earth-like planet three …
Titan
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Scientist Speculate Titan May Harbour Life

James Miller
Scientists at the US space agency NASA, have speculated that Saturn‘s moon Titan was a likely candidate to support life, after analyzing the latest data sent back from their space probe Cassini. Titan is the …
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Ice Water And Organic Matter Found On Asteroid 24 Themis

James Miller
On April 29, 2010 it was announced that water ice and organic molecules have been found on a 123 mile diameter asteroid, lying in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, known as 24 …
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Irish Meteorite Brings Out Fortune Hunters

James Miller
A large fireball seen in the Irish night sky on Wednesday caused quite a stir, as it flew low enough to be mistaken by one Cavan resident as an airplane. The next day, however, fortune …
Asteroid
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Asteroid To Pass Within 76,000 Miles Of Earth

James Miller
This Wednesday at 1247 GMT, an object named 2010 AL30 will pass close to the Earth. At a fly-by distance of 76,000 miles (122,000km), the object will be approximately one third closer to us than …
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Milky Way Galaxy May Hold Millions Of Solar Systems

James Miller
Researchers at Ohio State University  have recently concluded that around 15 percent of all stars in our galaxy could host solar systems. Our galaxy is estimated to contain between 100 and 400 billion stars, so …

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