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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 13 15:12:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>kepler space telescope</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:44:47 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kepler's took another tumble with another reaction wheel breaking down and has lost its ability to point accurately. Only 2 reaction wheels remain but it needs 3 to find earth like worlds. Engineers haven't scrapped it yet but things look grim...]]></description>
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      <title>New comet might blaze brighter than the full Moon</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:39:20 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Just read this article on C/2012 S1<br /><br /> www.astronomynow.com/news/n1209/25comet/]]></description>
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      <title>Comet panSTARRS</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:58:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 'Upcoming Astronomy Sights' page is now updated with Comet panSTARRS, showing you where to look and when.<br /><br />Look out for it during mid to late March <a href="http://astronomycentral.co.uk/upcoming-astronomy-sights/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://astronomycentral.co.uk/upcoming-astronomy-sights/</a>]]></description>
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      <title>You have to check this out...</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:46:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Scan around Mars from the viewpoint of the Nasa Mars Curiosity Rover with this amazing 360 degree panorama (remove the ads), and enjoy ! <br /><a href="http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-curiosity-solar-day-177#-153.89,-5.54,40.4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-curiosity-solar-day-177#-153.89,-5.54,40.4</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Humans going to Mars in January 2018?</title>
      <link>http://astronomycentral.co.uk/forum/discussion/551/humans-going-to-mars-in-january-2018</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[An ambitious plan to send humans to Mars in 2018 on a 501 day trip, to circle the red planet and return to Earth. <a href="http://bit.ly/13XCPFH" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/13XCPFH</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Is earth 2.0 closer than we thought?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:43:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21350899<br /><br />I hope it is]]></description>
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      <title>Comet ISON caught on film by the deep impact spacecraft</title>
      <link>http://astronomycentral.co.uk/forum/discussion/534/comet-ison-caught-on-film-by-the-deep-impact-spacecraft</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:41:44 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21352427]]></description>
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      <title>lots of exciting news!</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:59:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[www.astronomynow.com/news/n1301/20martianlake/<br /><br /> <a href="http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21082617" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21082617</a><br /><br /> www.astronomynow.com/news/n1301/21venusexpress/<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21144769" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21144769</a><br /><br />ENJOY!]]></description>
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      <title>Rouge planet discovered</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:40:57 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[hi all. i meant to post this a few days ago but got busy so here you go.<br /><br />www.astronomynow.com/news/n1211/15rogue/]]></description>
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      <title>New contender for Earth 2.0</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:23:43 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Another planet has been found. Its only a matter of time before we find another Earth.<br /><br />www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20249753<br /><br />www.astronomynow.com/news/n1211/08superearth/]]></description>
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      <title>new exoplanet found just next door</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:05:56 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[another exoplanet has been found in the closest star system to earth, the alpha centauri system. its rocky and close to the parent star.<br /><br /> www.astronomynow.com/news/n1210/17alphacentauri/<br /><br /> www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19959531]]></description>
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      <title>Planet with 4 sunsets a day</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:03:17 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Earlier in the year we had the discovery of a real life Tatooine with 2 suns in its sky, now here's the discovery of a gas giant exoplanet but with no less than 4 suns.<br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19950923</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Comet 168P Hergenrother is undergoing an outburst</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:27:45 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[hi all, more comet news. <br /><br />www.astronomynow.com/news/n1210/10comet/<br /><br />go get some! if you have clear skies that is...]]></description>
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      <title>R.I.P. Neil Armstrong</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:15:29 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Champagnerocker</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thats put a downer on my saturday evening.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098</a>]]></description>
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      <title>The shape of the universe - both flat and torus?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:25:59 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>CosmicTodd</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[So the evidence from WMAP, the Wilkison Anisotropy Probe, seems to have settled the geometry of the universe in the age old question: is it open (saddle-shaped), closed (spherical), or most unlikely of all - flat.  Turns out that it's flat based on the size of CBR "cells" observed by WMAP, which match the predicted size for CBR cells in a flat universe.  However, it is ALSO posited that the universe is torus shaped (all of these shapes imply that our three dimensional universe is warped in a 4th spatial dimension that we cannot perceive, and the lines that we perceive as straight actually curve in the other dimension.) Anyway, my question (finally) is - how can the universe be both flat and torus shaped?  Dr. Gay and Fraser Cain state this pretty clearly in "What Shape is the Universe" episode of AstronomyCast, but don't address the apparent contradiction.  Is it just that the term "flat" when used by cosmologist merely means that the parameter Omega = 1 and that parallel lines never diverge or converge (which is true for a torus topology), and not necessarily literally "flat"? ]]></description>
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      <title>mars science laboratory</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:53:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[so MSL has launched! i hope the mission goes to plan and the rover lands safe and sound so we can learn more exciting stuff! hopefully the russians can get phobos GRUNT up and going and on its way soon too!]]></description>
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      <title>possible chance to see northern lights</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:29:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[hey everyone. just to let you all know there is a possibility you could see the light show over the next few nights. the incoming cloud of particles is described as weak but they dont rule out the chance of seeing them. www.spaceweather.com/]]></description>
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      <title>E.T</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:19:06 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16273512 <br />i found this link pretty interesting. also check out the next one.<br /> www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18288926]]></description>
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      <title>Eden TV Channel</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:10:23 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>kensamay</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hi All,<br /><br />Been without clear skies now for nearly 4 weeks,apart from the odd day when it cleared but I was too busy. :(( <br /><br />Thankfully i'v been watching the Eden TV Channel science month,some of the new discoveries been shown are amazing.  =D&gt; <br /><br />If you get the chance well worth a look... <br /><br />Other than that bring back the clear skies...   =:) ]]></description>
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      <title>The &quot;Great lakes&quot; of Europa</title>
      <link>http://astronomycentral.co.uk/forum/discussion/169/the-great-lakes-of-europa</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:43:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Important findings regarding the chances of extraterrestrial life on Jupiter's moon Europa, my write up...<a href="http://astronomycentral.co.uk/shallow-liquid-water-found-on-jupiters-icy-moon-europa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://astronomycentral.co.uk/shallow-liquid-water-found-on-jupiters-icy-moon-europa</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Milkomeda</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:48:03 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[well guys its official. the milkyway is on course for a collision with andromeda!<br /><br /> www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18285583]]></description>
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      <title>JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon Explorer)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:58:38 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[hi guys just seen on the news that a proposal has been made to launch a billion euro space craft to study the habitability of jupiters moons. the craft would do close flybys of callisto and europa before finally going into a settled orbit around ganymede. read the full story at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17756628]]></description>
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      <title>New Type of Exoplanet, a Water World</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:02:10 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wow a truly alien, alien planet, one made mostly of water. GJ 1214b weighs in at 7 Earth's, and 2.7 times the diameter. Complete with a steamy atmosphere, superfuid water, and...hot ice !<br /><br />This must be the weirdest place yet discovered.<br /><a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1204/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1204/</a>]]></description>
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      <title>the 10th planet or nubira?</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:11:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>shanks1953</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[As a newcomer who is a novice can anyone tell me about this so called 10th planet or nubira as i believe its called, i was on the internet &amp; 10s of thousands of people are warning of its destructive possibilities etc , can some please advise me as to what is true &amp; what is false &amp; does it actually exist ? thanks..yours awaitngly]]></description>
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      <title>comet lovejoy&#039;s fiery demise</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:44:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[poor old comet lovejoy is about to plunge into the sun within the next 12hrs! looking forward to the satellite images.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:38:54 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[New info from Nasa about these weird super dense objects coming up...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:46:20 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>kensamay</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hi All,<br /><br />I heard a supernova is visible now that exploded millions of years ago.Can I see it with a telescope or bino's or is it only visible with a high powered telescope?]]></description>
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      <title>Have you seen this?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:17:08 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[An amazing aurora video filmed from the International Space Station  <a href="http://astronomycentral.co.uk/astronomy-and-space-videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://astronomycentral.co.uk/astronomy-and-space-videos</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Mars Rover Opportunity&#039;s Three Year Trek On Video</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:23:51 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John_Brady</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[New post...go here for video and full article <a href="http://astronomycentral.co.uk/mars-rover-opportunitys-three-year-trek-on-video" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://astronomycentral.co.uk/mars-rover-opportunitys-three-year-trek-on-video</a>]]></description>
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      <title>New photos of the moon landings from space</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:36:43 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Eyestotheskies</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wow these photos are amazing,the moon with the Apollo stuff from 40 years ago and even astronaut footprints <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html</a>]]></description>
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