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The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
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The Daily Galaxy -Great Discoveries Channel, is an eclectic text and video presentation of news and original insights on science, space exploration and the environment and their reflections in popular culture (film, books, events).
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Tonight's 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse --First Since 1994
Tonight's "time traveling" annular solar eclipse hundreds of miles wide and thousands of miles long, will turn the familiar disk of the sun into a ring of fire for sky-watchers in parts of Asia and the U.S. West. An annular...
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'Dark Rivers' of the Taurus Molecular Cloud --The Hidden Life Cycle of Stars
A new image from the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long hiding newborn stars. Dense clouds of gas are on the verge of collapsing to form yet...
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Weekend Feature: The Case of the Vanishing Alien Planet --A Kepler Mission Discovery
Astronomers may have detected evidence of a possible planet disintegrating under the searing heat of its host star located 1,500 light-years from Earth. Similar to a debris-trailing comet, the super Mercury-size planet candidate is theorized to fashion a dusty tail....
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Weekend Feature: 1st Ever Supernova Wave Observed Blasting Through Gas Shell
New observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star --SN 2010jl, the very bright X-ray source near the top of the galaxy...
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Weekend Feature: Search for Advanced Extraterrestrial Life --"Probe Mars for Artifacts" Say Leading Astrophysicists
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a low probability of success, but it would have a high impact if successful. Physicists Paul Davies and Robert Wagner of Arizona State University argued last year that it makes sense to widen...
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Did Black Holes Exist Prior to the Big Bang? (Today's Most Popular)
In recent years, cosmologists have begun to think seriously about processes that occurred before the Big Bang. Alan Coley from Canada's Dalhousie University and Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London, published a paper in 2011, where they theorized...
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Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG--Top Right of Page
Today's hot tech news from IDG News Service (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld). 'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by...
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Bacteria Found Thriving in 86-Million-Year-Old Seabeds
Live bacteria that use miniscule amounts of oxygen has been discovered trapped in red clay deposited on the ocean floor some 86 million years ago. The bacteria use. Researchers led by Hans Røy from the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus...
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Birth of the Largest Galaxy Supercluster in Universe Discovered
The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, along with a third cluster, will smash together and give rise to one of the largest...
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Microbial Life at Glacier Edges --Points to Possible Life Forms on Mars, Europa, Enceladus
Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets were methane is released could help researchers find evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's moon Enceladus. Ice sheets similar to thos...
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