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 | Jim Head is the Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Karri Ferron //
Published: November 23, 2009 |
 | Associate Editor Liz Kruesi
Published: November 23, 2009 |
 | These beautiful images will make your eyes water without cold weather.
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Michael E. Bakich //
Published: November 23, 2009 |
 | Avi Loeb is a professor at Harvard University and the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Karri Ferron //
Published: November 23, 2009 |
 | Browse a sample of these interesting sky-targets, and then seek them out with your own telescope.
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David J. Eicher //
Published: November 23, 2009 |
 | The dangers of these accessories cracking from the Sun's heat proved to be more than just a cosmic legend.
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Glenn Chaple //
Published: November 23, 2009 |
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A southern-sky survey mapped more than 110,000 nearby galaxies to show cosmic structure.
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Liz Kruesi //
Published: November 23, 2009 |