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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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    Globular Cluster: Core

    Globular clusters are roughly spherical ensembles of stars, as many as a million stars in some cases, that are gravitationally bound together in groups whose diameters can be as small as only tens of...

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    Messier Jets

    In 1774 the French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalog of 109 fuzzy-looking objects he discovered in the heavens. He thought they might be mistaken for comets, and today we know that many...

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TITLE Author DATE Comments RATING
Comets
NASA 12/3/09 0
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Kuiper Belt
NASA 12/3/09 0
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Exoplanet Albedo
CFA 12/2/09 0
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Stellar evolution
Internet STELLAR DATABASE + edits/additions by Joakim Lindblom 11/26/09 0
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Radio Galaxies: Early Universe
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Sun: Magnetic Fields
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Seven Billion Year-old Galaxies
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Supermassive Black Hole at Center of Milky Wa
CFA 11/11/09 0
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First Stars
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Hubble Expansion
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Super Massive Black Hole at Center of Milky Way
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Galaxies in the Early Universe
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Black Hole Confirmed
CFA 11/11/09 0
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Star Formation
CFA 11/9/09 0
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Colliding Galaxies: Double Nuclei
CFA 11/9/09 0
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Water in Space
CFA 11/9/09 0
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Epsilon Eridani: a Young Solar System
CFA 11/9/09 0
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X-ray Jets
CFA 11/9/09 0
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Double Jets in Young Binary Stars
CFA 11/9/09 0
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Exoplanet: Atmosphere
CFA 11/9/09 0
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