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Kuiper Belt
Kuiper Belt: In 1950, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort proposed that certain comets came from a vast spherical shell of icy bodies near the edge of the Solar System. This giant swarm of...
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The Night Sky: September 2010
The Night Sky in September 2010 By Harry J. Augensen Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Widener University Moon’s Phases in Month New Moon on the...
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CAMBRIDGE, MA (April 7, 2010) – Since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sky 400 years ago, a myriad of technological advances have allowed astronomers to look at very faint objects,...
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