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Quasars Hint That the Laws of Nature Change Over Time

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Precise measurements on the light from distant quasars suggest that the value of the fine-structure constant may have changed over the history of the universe. If the quasar results are eventually confirmed, our concepts of space and time are sure...     13:48
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Volcanoes Could Signal Presence of an Earth-like Planet

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- With the Kepler mission in an all out search for rocky, Earth-like planets, astronomers are asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? Work by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian...     13:48
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A Black Hole With the Mass of a Galaxy (Today's Most Popular)

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Located in the Cancer constellation about 3.5 billion light years away, an object dubbed OJ287 is part of a binary black hole system and produces a huge amount of light, fact that is usually associated with the formation of a...     13:48
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NEO Watch: Two Asteroids Zipping Past Earth Today

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Experts at a NASA lab have announced that two asteroids discovered on Sunday will pass close to Earth today, September 8. The two space rocks are in unrelated orbits, the team says, and pose no danger to Earth. What's unusual...     13:48
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Image of the Day: Our Solar System's Perilous 200-250 Million-Year Galactic Orbit

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- The dusty disk of the Milky Way contains billions of stars, including, of course our Sun which orbits the galaxy every 200-250 million years traveling at a velocity of about 155 miles per second (250 km/sec). It is extremely difficult...     13:48
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EcoAlert: New Map Helps Monitor Destruction of Amazon Basin

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Scientists are studying the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon. The maps were created with satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and...     13:48
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From the X File Dept: "Intelligent Species May Have Evolved Billions of Years Before Earth Came Into Existence."

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Recent discoveries in genetics, microbiology, astrobiology, and astrophysics indicates that life in the Milky Way galaxy began n nebular clouds over 10 billion years ago. Given the trillions upon trillions of galaxies which exist in the Hubble length (observable) universe,...     13:48
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Sci, Space, Tech Fans: Win a $150 Amazon Electronics Gift Card!

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Use it for a Free Kindle, Android X Smartphone, Apple iPod or Hundreds of Other Top Brand Electronics Products or Accessories. Volunteers are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on Reddit, Digg or StumbleUpon. Win...     13:48
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"The Selfish Biocosm" -A Radical Theory Says We've Already Received a Message from ET

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Most great scientific advances are first attacked by the the ruling status quo as heretical in either the religious or scientific sense or both: Giordano Bruno, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein are vivid examples. A new theory of evolution proposed by...     13:48
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US Astronauts: "NASA should use private spaceships."

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- NASA should use private spaceships, according to USA's veteran astronauts. An open letter to Congress signed by 24 former NASA astronauts told Congress that privately owned spacecraft could carry people safely to the International Space Station with SpaceX's DragonLab, a...     13:48
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Image of the Day: Immense Ring-Like Galaxy Mashup 100,000 Light Years Across

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- A collision of two galaxies has created a spectacular ring shape on a cosmic scale. The Cartwheel Galaxy is part of a group of galaxies about 500 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor. The Cartwheel's rim is an...     13:48
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Supernova of 161,000 B.C. -Closest to Earth with a Glowing Ring 6 Trillion Miles in Diameter

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Supernova 1987A, discovered in 1987, is the closest exploding star to Earth to be detected since 1604 and resides in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way Galaxy. In addition to ejecting massive...     13:48
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Cosmic 'Ghost': "Evidence of a supermassive black hole equal in power to a billion supernovas."

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory located a cosmic "ghost" that scientists think is evidence of a huge eruption produced by a supermassive black hole equal in power to a billion supernovas. The source, HDF 130, is over 10 billion light years...     13:48
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Image of the Day: The Weird Beauty of the Cone Nebula (Weekend Feature)

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright star just above the cone is the tree topper and the very bright star at...     13:48
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From the X Files Dept: "The Pandora Hypothesis"

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- "If every habitable world in the universe is unique, and the precise chemical conditions of a planet helps shape the life that evolves there, then avatars could allow aliens to visit other worlds from the safety of their spaceship. Could...     13:48
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Darwin's Secret Island: A Model of How Human Exploration Could Transform Mars

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island, one of a number of volcanic islands in the middle of the South Atlantic, located 1,600km (1,000 miles) from the coast of Africa and 2,250km (1,400 miles) from South America was a barren volcanic...     13:48
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"The Universe Exists Because of Spontaneous Creation" -Stephen Hawking

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- In "The Grand Design," Stephen Hawking and Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow suggest that physics and metaphysics (and religion) are merging. The grand design which we have taken for granted since Newton is more complex than anything we ever dreamed of....     13:48
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EcoAlert: Will Earth Mirror the Fate of Easter Island? (Today's Most Popular)

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- “We’ll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island." Frank Fenner, virologist Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction...     13:48
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Image of the Day: 3.8 Billion Year-Old Impact Crater on Moon's South Pole

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- A new geologic map of the moon's Schrodinger basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of the lunar surface after a huge object struck the moon, revealing a patchwork of material, including the peak ring (inner brown ring), recent volcanic activity...     13:48
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From the X Files Dept: China -"The UFO Capital of Planet Earth"

The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel -Your Daily Dose of Awe: Science, Space, Tech -- Yet another UFO sighting has been reported in Eastern China on August 31st in the southwestern Haiyan County of Zhejiang Province. The object sightedwas very bright, according to eyewitnesses. It was visible for at least three hours. It drew the...     13:48
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