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Venus' Transit and the Search for Other Worlds

The first recorded transit of Venus: William Crabtree (1610–1644) was an astronomer,...

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Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy

Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a...

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NASA to Use Rare Venus Transit as Planet-Hunting Exercise

The planet Venus will make a rare transit across the face of the Sun on June 5. The phenomenon will not occur again for more than a century. The U.S. space agency, NASA, plans to use the Venus transit to fine-tune some of its deep-space planet-...

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NASA'S Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision

NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

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Venus, a Planetary Portrait of Inner Beauty

Artist concept of lightning on Venus.

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NASA Preparing to Launch Its Newest X-ray Eyes

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything from massive black holes to our own sun. It is...

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Venus transit to be witnessed by North and Central America on June 5

People in most of Hawaii, Alaska, Australia, the western Pacific, and eastern Asia will be able to see the planet Venus cross in front of the Sun, which will last 6 hours 40 minutes on 5th June.

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Now, perfume that smells like 'new car'

Ford Spain has launched a new perfume that smells like a new car.

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