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| Largest
Photo Map of Moon (Sky
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Eleven
British amateur astronomers stitched together their photos of a 9
day Moon. There are 288 panes and they have detail at 0.6 miles wide. |
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Channel Islands of California and Comet Impacts (U
or Oregon)
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| Comet impacts about 13,000
years ago could have led to mass extinctions of North American life.
Telltale soot and diamonds have been discovered. |
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Asteroid or Comet Strike on Jupiter
(JPL)
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 Australian
Anthony Wesley discovered an impact site on Jupiter. He found it
on the anniversary of the Shoemaker-Levy comet smash.
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Strange Hyperactive Galaxies of Long Ago
(Hubblesite)
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with stars moving very fast. So they are massive galaxies. They don't
fit well with astronomical generalizations about the early universe.
Such galaxies aren't seen in our more recent and local universe. |
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Bright Spot on Venus
(New
Scientist)
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Amateur astronomer, Frank Melillo of Holtsville, NY, first found
the spot. The spot may have come from extremely powerful eruptions.
It may, instead, be from solar particles interacting with the Venusian
atmosphere. Then, too, it could be bright concentrations of turbulence.
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