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  • Blog Post: Discover the Universe in Ottawa

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  • Blog Post: Attend the American Astronomical Society conference and star party in Indianapolis

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  • Blog Post: Astronomy Festival on the National Mall

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  • Blog Post: Send your poems to Mars on MAVEN

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  • Blog Post: Discover the Universe in Maryland and Delaware

    During the month of March, the Sussex County Astronomy Society and the Delmarva Space Sciences Foundation held three events — one at the seashore, one at a rocket launch complex, and one on a boardwalk — a s part of Astronomy magazine’s Discover the Universe program to bring sidewalk...
  • Blog Post: The Sun lets loose the biggest coronal mass ejection of the year

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  • Blog Post: NASA publishes its proposed 2014 budget

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  • Blog Post: Explore the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

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  • Blog Post: Deep Sky Forum and Faint Fuzzies create 46-object observing guide

    One year ago, NASA’s Ebb and Flow craft sent back images of the farside of the Moon, Lady Gaga started her own social networking site, and the Deep Sky Forum was in its infancy. [caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00...
  • Blog Post: "Cosmic Adventures" video series returns

    [caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-People/1856.CA_2D00_behind_2D00_the_2D00_scenes.jpg" position="right" targeturl="http://www.astronomy.com/cosmicadventures"]The new duo behind Cosmic Adventures is Associate Editors...
  • Blog Post: Virtually attend a star party

    [caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Star+parties/5861.Mike-Phillips-Uranus.png" position="right" targeturl="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-51-Star...
  • Blog Post: Help save the movie "Saving Hubble"

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  • Blog Post: Hubble’s hidden treasures are yours to find

    Be an astronomy archaeologist. Dig up images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that only a few scientists have ever seen (and about which they never wrote press releases). I dare you.[caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00...
  • Blog Post: NASA’s universe literally at your fingertips

    Now that you’ve relegated all those weird books you received over the holidays to the shelf for dust collection, it’s time to pick up a book — or two — of your own choosing. For your consideration, I present the latest[caption image="http://cs.astronomy.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key...
  • Blog Post: A Kickstarter for science

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  • Blog Post: NASA makes Earth become art

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  • Blog Post: ESO hits 50

    In 1962, astronomers from five European countries decided to build a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, where there were not yet any large observatories but there was an abundance of interesting sky objects, like the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way's galactic center, high in the sky. This group...