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A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Stephen Hawking
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Customer Review: Like some other reviewers, it took a few tries spaced a few years apart to finally get through it. If you try this book keep in mind that it's targetted to give someone with little more than highschoo...

A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
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Customer Review: This book offers the Layman more than a lucid view of Dark Energy/Matter and String Theory...It offers us a brilliant new way to think about the Universe that was only grasped by the very few up until...

NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
by Terence Dickinson
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Customer Review: This book lives up to all the reviews I had read. It is easy to follow and the photographs are stunning. Should be in every beginning astronomers library.

The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
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Customer Review: This book is truly a gem.. small volume but packed with a density of information..
Explore fascinating topics you could not think about in your wildest DREAMS.. topics are Black holes, Entropy, ...

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
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Customer Review: I really loved this book. Covered a lot of territory found in similar explorations, but always with a fresh slant, and lots of surprises. Very,very well organized. A treat from start to finish, and so...

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Earth at Night on Google Earth

The Earth at Night global image along with astronaut photographs of North American cities at night are now available in Google Earth.
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Earth and Moon from Mercury

Looking back from its orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER captured this view of Earth and the Moon on May 6, 2010.
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Taklimakan Desert Dust Storm

Acquired September 5, 2010, these natural-color images a wide-area and close-up view of a dust storm in the Taklimakan Desert.
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Flooding in Pakistan

Acquired July 19, August 11, and September 7, 2010, these false-color images span a 50-day period in which the Indus River spawned a parallel river to the west.
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7.0 Quake near Christchurch, New Zealand

This topographic map of the South Island, New Zealand, illustrates the location of a large earthquake on September 4, 2010, how geologic activity shaped the region in the past, and why the current geology makes Christchurch vulnerable to earthquake damage.
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Fourmile Canyon Fire

Acquired September 6, 2010, this natural-color image shows a river of smoke flowing eastward from a wildfire west of Boulder, Colorado.
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Barents Sea

In this natural-color image from August 31, 2010, a large phytoplankton bloom colors the Barents Sea turquoise, teal, navy, and green.
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Typhoon Kompasu

The MODIS instrument on NASA?s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of Typhoon Kompasu approaching the Korean peninsula and China on September 1, 2010.
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Hurricane Earl Cloud Heights

Acquired on August 31, 2010, this image combines a grayscale image of Hurricane Earl with a cloud height profile.
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New posts in the Climate Q&A blog - What can we do about global warming?

Possible responses to global warming fall into three broad categories: mitigate warming related to human activity by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to predicted changes in climate, and alter the Earth to counter global warming (geoengineering).
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Astronomy at the Beach scheduled for Sept. 10-11

9 Sep 2010 at 7:35am  See planets, stars and all things celestial at the 14th annual Astronomy at the Beach at Maple Beach at Kensington Metropark from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday, Sept. 10, and Saturday, Sept. 11.

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Astronomy Book for Every 3rd Grade Class in VA

9 Sep 2010 at 5:00am  A University of Virginia astronomy club created a book called "Snapshots of the Universe" to get kids interested in the sciences.

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Astronomy with Binoculars class

9 Sep 2010 at 12:45am  EAST MANCHESTER TWP.-- The York County Astronomical Society will offer an "Astronomy with Binoculars" class 8 to 10 p.

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Astronomy lover aims for the stars

7 Sep 2010 at 10:35pm  AIKEN --- Keeping the Boyd Pond Park observatory operational began as an experiment of good faith that has been repaid to creator David Boyd in friendship and service for more than 13 years.

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Aesthetics of Astronomy

7 Sep 2010 at 1:10pm  When I tell people I majored in astronomy, the general reaction is one of shock and awe. Although people don't realize just how much physics it is (which scares them even more when they found out), they're still impressed that anyone would choose to major in a physical science. Quite often, I'm asked the question, [...]

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