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Venus Overcomes Early Struggles To Win 1st Round Match

AP | Posted 05.27.2012

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PARIS -- Venus Williams bounced back from a poor start at the French Open on Sunday, beating 19-year-old Paula Ormaechea 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 in her first Gr...

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TONIGHT: Final Bow For Sky Show Featuring Venus, Moon

Posted 05.22.2012

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By: Joe Rao Published: 05/21/2012 05:29 PM EDT on SPACE.com We all know how, after a great theatrical show has concluded the actors come out fo...

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Skygazers Gear Up For Next Big Celestial Event

Posted 05.21.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 05/21/2012 11:36 AM EDT on SPACE.com Sunday's "ring of fire" solar eclipse may be history, but skywatchers ha...

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NEXT MONTH: Rare Celestial Event May Kickstart Search For Alien Planets

Posted 05.16.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 05/16/2012 01:04 PM EDT on SPACE.com Observations of next month's historic Venus transit may eventually help astronomer...

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Rare Celestial Event Has Skywatchers Heading North

Posted 05.15.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 05/15/2012 07:42 AM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA sun-watching spacecraft will have an unbeatable view of June's historic Ven...

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Rare Planetary Event To Be Viewed With Collossal 'Mirror'

Posted 05.08.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/07/2012 05:40 PM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists are planning to use NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe next...

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THIS WEEK: See Venus At Its Most Brilliant

Posted 04.27.2012

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By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 04/27/2012 01:59 PM EDT on SPACE.com Step outside any night this week about an hour after sunset and have a look at...

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TONIGHT: Venus Meets Up With Crescent Moon

Posted 04.24.2012

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By: Joe Rao Published: 04/23/2012 05:59 PM EDT on SPACE.com On Tuesday evening (April 24), skywatchers will be treated to yet another eye-catchi...

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TONIGHT: Prime Time For Viewing Venus In Evening Sky

Posted 04.14.2012

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By: Joe Rao Published: 04/13/2012 08:36 PM EDT on SPACE.com The planet Venus is now at its peak of visibility in the evening sky this weekend, mak...

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TODAY: Venus Visible In Daytime Sky, If You Know How To Spot It

Posted 03.26.2012

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By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 03/26/2012 07:03 AM EDT on SPACE.com The planet Venus has been dominating the nighttime sky recently, but did you k...

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TONIGHT: It's Not Too Late To See Venus, Jupiter 'Cuddle'

AP | By MARCIA DUNN | Posted 03.13.2012

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It's not too late to catch the spectacular Venus and Jupiter show. On Monday and Tuesday evenings, the planets will appear ju...

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Among the Wanderers

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 05.12.2012

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Zoe P. Strassfield

What kept me going was the knowledge that on Wednesday, the day after my last midterm, Mars would be at its closest to the Earth all year.

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TONIGHT: Venus, Jupiter 'Dance' In Dazzling Sky Display

Posted 03.12.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 03/12/2012 09:39 AM EDT on SPACE.com Venus and Jupiter have been dancing toward each other in the night sky for months,...

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Venus Spacecraft 'Blinded' By Raging Solar Flare

Posted 03.08.2012

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By: Denise Chow Published: 03/08/2012 01:06 PM EST on SPACE.com Strong radiation from one of the most intense solar storms in the past five year...

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WATCH: Venus Rocked By Huge Explosions

Posted 03.06.2012

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SPACE.com Staff Date: 06 March 2012 Time: 07:00 AM ET Strange, gigantic explosions fueled by solar energy detonate just above the surface of Ven...

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TONIGHT: Four Planets And Moon To Make Spectacular Show

Posted 04.27.2012

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By: Tariq Malik Published: 02/25/2012 12:28 PM EST on SPACE.com A cosmic team-up of planets and the thin crescent moon is dazzling skywatchers ...

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WATCH: Explosive Fireballs Light Up February Skies

Posted 02.24.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/23/2012 05:20 PM EST on SPACE.com A strange breed of fireball is streaking through the skies this month, and N...

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Is Venus Slowing Down?

Posted 02.13.2012

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By Sid Perkins ScienceNow (Click here for the original article.) Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, has the slowest rotational period of an...

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Russian Scientist Claims Scorpion-like Alien Found On Venus, NASA Disagrees

Alejandro Rojas | Posted 03.27.2012

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Alejandro Rojas

The idea of life on Venus is not given much credence by most mainstream scientists because of the extreme surface temperatures, which can exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Did NASA Lie About Triangle UFO?

TruTV.com | Posted 03.24.2012

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The appearance of a triangular object on a telescope has many UFO hunters speculating that they have captured an image of a giant alien spacecraft. ...

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Global Warming: Fox News Separates Fact From Fiction

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.11.2011

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Fox News called the three-and-a-half-minute segment "Climate Change Myths: Separating Fact From Fiction" -- an apt name because as far as the science is concerned, there's very little that could be characterized as fact, and a whole lot that could pass for fiction.

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The Art of Seduction: Through the Eyes of an Artist -- Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam

Angella Nazarian | Posted 09.20.2011

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Angella Nazarian

There was no way of pegging his style. With classical Persian music sounding in the background, he performed elements of flamenco, Persian, Indonesian, martial arts, Indian Kathakali dance.

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PHOTOS: Painter Depicts 'Gods And Mortals', Beauty And Death

Posted 08.14.2011

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In Zsolt Bodoni's second solo show at the Mihai Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles, "Gods and Mortals," he further explores the world of figurative painti...

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Tips for NASA: Houston, You Have a Problem

John Bobey | Posted 07.26.2011

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John Bobey

You shot yourself in the foot by calling them Space Shuttles. "Shuttles" don't boldly go where no man has gone before, they go to Chicago, and occasionally bring you from Parking Lot T to the front entrance of the State Fair.

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Four Planet Cluster Visible This Week

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 07.08.2011

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You don't have to be an astronomer to enjoy a rare sight like this. You just have to be able to get out of bed. A rare sight of four planets "cl...

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