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Hundreds of people have suffered headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems after an object from space – believed to be a meteorite – crashed in southern Peru.
Witnesses told of a fiery ball falling from the sky and smashing into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border at … Read the rest of this article
Two NASA spacecraft now have new assignments after successfully completing their missions. The duo will make new observations of comets and characterize extrasolar planets. Stardust and Deep Impact will use their flight-proven hardware to perform new, previously unplanned, investigations.
“These mission extensions are as exciting as it gets. They will allow us to revisit a comet for the first time, … Read the rest of this article
Videos on this page come from a number of sources, but primarily Google and YouTube. This page provides recent videos featuring amateur and professional astronomers.… Read the rest of this article
Starting in 1992, astronomers have become aware of a vast population of small bodies orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. There are at least 70,000 “trans-Neptunians” with diameters larger than 100 km in the radial zone extending outwards from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to 50 AU. Observations show that the trans-Neptunians are mostly confined within a thick … Read the rest of this article
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The Sun Now (H-Alpha light)
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