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Astronomy-Page
submitted by Clement 267 days ago (via astronomy-page.com)
Astronomy-Page is a Web 2.0 weaved astronomy website, with powerful webapps, such as a fully blown online planetarium, an astronomy startpage, and an astronomy digg. Astronomy-Page is administrated by a 15 year old webmaster and amateur astronomer (me) , who's main objective is to pimp out astronomy on the internet, and make it reach its full potential.
 
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Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
submitted by Clement 267 days ago (via antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov)
The APOD is a service set up by the NASA which presents every day a picture related to astronomy, and below it an explanation of it by a professional astronomer. The APOD is one of the most popular astronomy websites on the net, and has been bringing to the general public the best pictures of the sky, coming from Hubble and Amateurs alike, ever since 1995.
 
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Hubble shows 2 Interacting Galaxies: Arp 87
submitted by Alex 267 days ago (via esa.int)
Hubble has captured one of the best and cool shots ever: two interacting galaxies, just like the mice galaxies or the antennae. The pic shows the galaxies in high detail as well as the exchange of matter taking place between both galaxies. A nice foreshadowing of what might happen to our Milky Way when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy (M 31) in about 2 million years' time. Check it out!
 
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Unexpected Brightening of Comet 17P/Holmes
submitted by Alex 267 days ago (via sci.esa.int)
Comet 17P/Holmes now makes for an unexpected sight in the night sky. In the night of 23 to 24 October the comet has brightened by an enormous factor of 1 million, from a magnitude of about 17 to a magnitude of about 2.7. Professional Astronomers aren't sure of what caused this sudden brightening of the comet, and expect results from observation data in the time to come
 
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Observing Highlights for early November 2007
submitted by Alex 259 days ago (via stargeezeradio.com)
What's up in the sky in November 2007? Mark Steven Williams presents the coolest things you've got to see this fall.
 
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Apollo 11 astronauts customs declaration
submitted by Alex 259 days ago (via random-byte.blogspot.com)
Can you believe this? Armstrong, Buzz, and Collins actually had to fill out a customs declaration when they returned from the moon! Crazy...
 
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Diffraction Spikes
submitted by Clement 119 days ago (via woodside.blogs.com)
Do you know why those magnificient telescope images show stars as having spikes of light around them? Here's the answer!
 
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Extrasolar Planet Count
submitted by Alex 119 days ago (via planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov)
Keep track of the latest extrasolar planet discoveries and learn interesting information about them. You can even download a Yahoo! or OS X Dashboard widget to keep track of them from your desktop!
 
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Cheesy Lego Stephen Hawking
submitted by Alex 119 days ago (via woodside.blogs.com)
I find it kind of mean to show disabled people in this way, not that its a lack of respect or anything. I just find it, well, cheesy... You take a look!
 
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