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Top 5 Amazing Astronomy Discoveries in 2008
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SPACE.com - Astronomers
have continued to cast their eyes to the heavens, with bigger and better
telescopes and as much passion as ever this year, but some of the coolest
findings of 2008 were right in our own backyard, or at least looked like they
were.
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Japan to monitor greenhouse gases from space
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 Reuters - Japan's space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said Wednesday, hoping the data it collects helps global efforts to combat climate change.
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Study: Black holes seem to form before galaxies
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AP - When galaxies initially formed, they weren't the first in the cosmic neighborhood. The supermassive black holes, which reside at the center of galaxies, probably moved in first, a new astronomy study suggests.
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NYC man admits he helped air Hezbollah TV
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AP - The owner of a satellite TV company pleaded guilty Tuesday to providing material aid to a terrorist organization by letting customers receive broadcasts from Hezbollah's television station.
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Strange dark energy acts as galactic diet enforcer
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 AP - Mysterious dark energy, which likely causes the universe to keep expanding, seems to have another effect: It prevents the biggest clusters of galaxies from getting too fat. Astronomers used X-rays to study the formation of galactic clusters billions of years ago. Their research supports the hard-to-fathom concept of dark energy as a potent force that governs the growth of the universe.
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Reuters - Black holes -- those massive, invisible objects that suck in everything around them -- may have appeared before the galaxies that host them, astronomers said on Wednesday.
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