Milky Way

Giant 'Dark Sky' Preserve Promises Spectacular Stargazing

Posted 05.29.2012

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OurAmazingPlanet Staff - May 24, 2012 05:17 PM ET The NamibRand Nature Reserve, a private nature reserve in southern Namibia, has gotten the sta...

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(R)evolution in San Francisco: Ana Castillo Seizes the Reigns of Feminist Spirituality for 2012

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.17.2012

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It was clear to many in the room that she was providing the missing feminine voice capable of renewing the Goddess Movement on a global level after it disappeared underground following the backlash of its New Age commercialization in the '80s.

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Mother's Day: Celebrating the Universal Maternal Divine

Donna Henes | Posted 05.13.2012

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This Mother's Day, let us toast our universal Maternal Creatrix, our mutual Mother Earth, our biological mothers, and our own mothering impulses with the nurturing milk of human kindness.

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Far-Off Galaxies Show 'Battle' Between Black Holes, Baby Stars

Posted 05.10.2012

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By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/09/2012 01:12 PM EDT on SPACE.com The intense energy and winds from gigantic black holes can block the birth of ...

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WOW: Ancient Stars Swarm Like Bees At Milky Way's Edge

Posted 05.09.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/09/2012 10:12 AM EDT on SPACE.com SCROLL DOWN FOR HUGE PHOTO. A ball of some of the oldest stars in the unive...

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Alien Life Could Exist On HOW Many Planets? Study Yields Surprising Answer

Posted 04.29.2012

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By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 04/28/2012 08:24 AM EDT on SPACE.com A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common ...

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PHOTO: Billion Stars Blaze In Marvelous Milky Way Image

Posted 03.29.2012

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More than a billion stars blaze brightly in a new photo of our Milky Way galaxy snapped by an international team of astronomers. The new picture, wh...

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Alien Planet 'Headcount' Yields Big Surprise

Posted 03.28.2012

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By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/28/2012 08:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com There should be billions of habitable, rocky planets around the faint red st...

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Incredible Jewel-Like Galaxy Discovered By Astronomers

| Sid Perkins | Posted 03.23.2012

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The vast majority of galaxies are either flattened, disklike spirals like our own Milky Way, ellipsoidal rugby ball-shaped blobs, or irregular clumps ...

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WATCH: Artist's Trippy Time-Lapse Video From Space Station

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 03.22.2012

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NASA's time-lapse videos from the International Space Station (ISS) are breathtaking, sure. But wait till you see what an artist can do tweak them. Fo...

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Milky Way Awash In Starless 'Rogue' Planets, Study Suggests

Posted 02.26.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/24/2012 11:44 AM EST on SPACE.com Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets that ramble through s...

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Giant Black Hole May Be Eating Asteroids At Milky Way's Center

Posted 02.10.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/09/2012 01:34 PM EST on SPACE.com The gigantic black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be devourin...

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Galaxy 'Swarm' May Help Astronomers Solve Dark Matter Mystery

Posted 02.08.2012

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By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 02/07/2012 09:22 AM EST on SPACE.com Tantalizing hints of tiny, hard-to-see galaxies on the outskirts of our cos...

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Milky Way Packed With Billions Of Planets, Study Suggests

AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 01.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber...

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Are We Alone?

George Smoot III | Posted 03.05.2012

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We are in the midst of one of the most interesting and challenging science research programs that humans have ever pursued. It is good to keep this in mind when the everyday crises of human affairs seem so overwhelming.

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Milky Way Black Hole May Soon Devour Planets

| Posted 12.27.2011

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By John Matson (Click here for original article.) Times are tough on planet Earth right now, but at least we don’t have a supermassive black ...

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WATCH: Black Hole To Devour Huge Gas Cloud

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.18.2011

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A huge gas cloud in space is about to meet its end at the hands of a massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. According to the European Sout...

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Hubble Telescope Looks Toward Galaxy Clusters To Find Dark Matter

| Posted 11.18.2011

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By Kelly Oakes (Click here for original article.) Galaxies do not usually exist alone. They tend to bunch together in small groups, like the Local...

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At Least 50 "Super-Earths" Discovered

Worldcrunch | Posted 11.13.2011

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GENEVA - For Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva Observatory, it was an impressive list of achievements: his team managed to discover no less tha...

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WATCH: Simulation Recreates Formation Of The Milky Way

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.01.2011

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We know a lot about what the Milky Way looks like, but very little about how it got that way. However, scientists at the University of Zurich may h...

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WATCH: Amazing Milky Way Time-Lapse

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.15.2011

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Randy Halverson spent three weeks braving the South Dakota Plains winds to capture this video, and we're sure glad he did. Wired reports that it to...

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Man Creates Milky Way Panorama From 37,440 Photos

Posted 07.12.2011

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*Scroll down for pictures (PHUONG LE, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) SEATTLE -- Nick Risinger has always gazed up at the sky. But last year the amateur as...

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'Sizing Up The Universe'

Robert J. Vanderbei | Posted 05.25.2011

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In fact, the book does more than answer these questions; it explains how astronomers figured out the answers.

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Are We a Biological Miracle?

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

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A generous slice of the citizenry thinks we might be the cleverest creatures in the Milky Way. But the suggestion that we're a special case makes me uneasy. It implies our existence is a miracle, and after all, miracles are science's last resort.

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GJ 581g: Cool Planets Are Hard to Find

Patricia Draznin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Do we really need to search the universe for other planets? Or maybe we're just being human, exploring the unknown, and most of all want to give them a better name, such as American Express Land.

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