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January 16 – Blowin’ In The (Cosmic) Wind
Today’s Factismal: The Stardust mission returned samples from a comet ten years ago today but the science continues! There are a lot of things we don’t know in science. But there are a lot of things...
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January 25 – Hot Topic, Cool Science
Factismal: IRAS was launched on January 25, 1983. Astronomy entered a new age in 1983, with the launch of the Infrared Astronomy Satellite, or IRAS for short. IRAS wasn’t the first telescope into...
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February 6 – The Sky’s A Rockin’!
Today’s factismal: Nearly 42,000 meteorites hit the Earth every year. Odds are, you’ve seen the really cool dashboard video of the meteor that light up the sky in Illinois and Wisconsin last night....
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February 8 – Big Smalls
Today’s factismal: Most stars aren’t visible because they are too small and too cool. If you go out at night and look up in the sky, you will probably see lots of stars out there. Though a couple of...
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