The Geminids are coming
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It&#39;s the end of the year and what better way for stargazers to close it out than by viewing the best meteor shower of 2004? The Geminid meteor shower occurs mid-December every year.
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A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world&#39;s most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year.
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s collisions go, the one taking place in the vicinity of the constellation Hydra is a doozy. Out there, some 800 million light-years from Earth, two galactic clusters - one with about 1,000
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Astronomers describe a planet orbiting a star near the end of its life - a vision, perhaps, of Earth's future.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the predawn skies.
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Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the predawn skies. About 45 minutes before dawn on Sunday those three planets will be so close that the average person's thumb can obscure all three from view.
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Sky gazers across the country will be treated to an awe-inspiring sight Wednesday evening as the full moon slips into the earth&#39;s shadow.
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When the space station passes across the Sun or moon, the scene offers an interesting demonstration of how planet hunter's look for new candidates by measuring the periodic dimming of a parent star.
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Itâs that time of year on the distant planet â when its ring system appears edge-on to observers on Earth.
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The Geminid meteor shower, a reliable annual display, peaks tonight and into the pre-dawn. For skywatchers with dark, clear skies, this dazzling display should produce up to 120 meteors per hour.
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Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night. It&#39;s the Geminids.
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Astronomers are finding more of the sun&#39;s sisters as they train two sharp eyes on the universe. NASA, ESA, DR Ardila, DA Golimowski, JE Krist, M. Clampin, JP
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A SPECTACULAR total eclipse of the moon will be
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The annual Geminid meteor shower is expected to produce a reliable shooting star show that will get going Sunday and peak the middle of next week.
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Fly-by of an odd-ball moon Saturn watchers on the Cassini mission are preparing for another fly-by, this time of the oddly shaped moon Iapetus.â¦
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In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers report
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HIP 56948, we hardly knew ye. This "solar twin" finally has a name and myth fitting for a member of a dysfunctional astronomical family. (Credit: Digitized Sky Survey) The judges in the Solar-Twin Naming Contest have decided on a winner &#8212; and more. They were ready to pick one of the proposed Greek names and myths [...].