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Two earth-size planets discovered

By Erin Farnsworth

Dec. 21, 2011 5 Comments

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A fun week to be a space geek!

Filed Under: Hard Science Tagged With: astronomy, harvard smithsonian center, kepler, kepler-20e, kepler-20f, planet, space

“Tatooine-like” planet found

By John M. Guilfoil

Sept. 17, 2011 3 Comments

Kepler-16b orbits two suns, just like Tatooine

Kepler-16b is the first observed circumbinary planet

Filed Under: Hard Science Tagged With: astronomy, circumbinary, planet, space, star wars, tatooine

Thanksgiving Harry Potter celebration in Fort Collins

By Eiko Watanabe

Nov. 23, 2010 Leave a Comment

All Potter, all the time at museum

Filed Under: Life in the Southwest Tagged With: astronomy, colorado, constellation, discovery science center, fort collins, harry potter, harry potter and the deathly hallows, harry potter and the deathy hallows: part 1, Magic, museum, science, star, the owls of harry potter

NASA makes a levitation device that floats a mouse

By Michael Kaufmann

Sept. 14, 2009 Leave a Comment

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It’s not quite thwarting entropy, but we must finally be in the future!

Filed Under: Hard Science, Science and Technology Tagged With: astronomy, gravity, Hard Science, levitation, mice, nasa, science, space