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"The Life and Death of Stars" is a thorough and richly detailed book that will tell you all you want to know about stars. The author, Kenneth R. Lang, is Professor of Astronomy at Tufts University, and he clearly has the...

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I'm often asked by students in my community education astronomy classes whether any new elements have been found in outer space unknown on Earth. The answer to the question is no - nature uses the same 98 natural element...

Here's the iconic Horsehead Nebula as we've not seen it before. As the Hubble team so poetically puts it, the nebula looks "like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam." The new image of the Horsehead w...

Video streaming by Ustream Our very own International Space Station is in the cosmic crosshairs. As cosmonauts are to begin Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) this morning to perform routine maintenance, an article reminding...