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US, Russian space station crew conduct spacewalk
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 AP - American and Russian crewmen installed a probe Tuesday aimed at tracking down problems with a Russian module attached to the international space station and conducted an array of other maintenance and scientific work during a six-hour spacewalk.
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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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Surprise Star Formation Found Near Black Hole
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SPACE.com - LONG BEACH, Calif. — Two embryonic stars discovered
just a few light years away from the Milky Way's center show that stars can
form in the potentially destructive reach of the powerful black hole at our
galaxy's center.
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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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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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Stellar Meteor Shower Jan. 3
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SPACE.com - For meteor observers, the presence of an almost-full Moon cast a bright pall on this month's performance of the Geminid Meteor Shower, normally one of the best meteor displays of the year. But for a wild card, another very good meteor shower may be right around corner. And for this one, the Moon will not play a factor at all.
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Spacewalkers install probe outside space station
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 Reuters - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- A U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut completed a 5-1/2-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday to install a device that monitors conditions around the orbital outpost.
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