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Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Interview with NASA’s Blueshift podcast Time lapse : All Is Violent , All Is Bright SpaceFest IV interview In May I attended SpaceFest IV a gathering of space enthusiasts , astronauts who , I suppose , are legit space enthusiasts astronomers , and more . It’s a lot of fun , and great to see old friends and meet new science geeks . I missed last year’s , unfortunately , but was happy to be able to go this year . again While I was there I was interviewed about the Mayan apocalypse , Symphony of Science , and building a real Enterprise . It was an eclectic series of . questions
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Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years.
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One of the cool features of the new Galaxy Zoo Talk is that you can tag objects using the # character. For example, if you see two overlapping galaxies like NGC 3314… … then you can tag it with #overlap when commenting on it. That way, anyone with an interest in overlapping galaxies can find [...]
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