 - How Round is the Sun? (10/5/2008)
Oct 5, 9:40am (3 reviews) astronomy http://www.astronomyreport.com/research/...- 'Cantaloupe ridges' on the sun. The glowing white magnetic network is what gives the sun its extra oblateness during times of high solar activity. Los Angeles astronomer Gary Palmer took the picture in July 29, 2005, using a violet calcium-K solar filter.

 - Milky Way ringed by &039;missing galaxies&039; | COSMOS magazine
Sep 25, 11:08am  (2 reviews) astronomy http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/2201-
Emerging picture: More than 10,000 times fainter than the Milky Way, the Leo II dwarf spheroidal galaxy is 500 light years across and is approximately 600,000 light years away from the Sun.
Credit: Josh Simon using data made available by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
 - Solar system quilt - Boing Boing
Sep 16, 9:21am   (2 reviews) astronomy, history http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/15/sol...- This gigantic, gorgeous 19th-century quilt depicting the Solar System hangs at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian. The story of the maker, an early woman astronomer is really amazing, too.

 - Familiar moons may orbit distant stars | COSMOS magazine
Sep 4, 9:28am (1 review) astronomy, science http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2170/...- Stargazing: 'Exomoons' similar to our own Moon could be discovered orbiting extrasolar planets (like this one, pictured), by watching for telltale peaks in the light emitted by their stars.
Credit: NASA

 - 50 Billion Suns! -The Biggest Single Object in the Universe
Sep 4, 8:22am (20 reviews) astronomy, space-exploration, physics http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/200...
New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big. That's a hundred thousand tredagrams, and you'll never get the chance to use that word in relation to anything else.
Black holes are regions of space where matter is so dense that regular physics just breaks down. You might think physical laws are immutable - you can't get out of gravitational attraction the same way you can get out of a speeding ticket - but beyond a certain level laws which determine how matter is regulated are simply overloaded and material is crushed down into something that's less an object and more a region of altered space.
 - PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Star Portrait Reveals &Family Tree&
Aug 26, 5:37pm   (2 reviews) astronomy, photography http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...- Star Portrait Reveals "Family Tree"

 - Massive New Object Discovered at Edge of the Solar System
Aug 19, 6:48am   (41 reviews) astronomy, science http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/200...- Its the ALL SEEING EYE

 - LinkNotes: Extraterrestrial Radio Signals -- Aliens or No Aliens?
Aug 19, 6:47am (12 reviews) astronomy http://rj3sp.blogspot.com/2008/08/extrat...
 - NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the Program (full-screen) | PBS
Aug 9, 3:42pm     (370 reviews) astronomy, physics, science, video, movie http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/pro...- Watch The Elegant Universe (full-screen version)
The full-screen version plays the programs at double the regular playback size.

 - Study shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the...
Aug 8, 11:34am (2 reviews) astronomy, photography http://www.astronomyreport.com/research/...
In this image of local dark matter densities in the inner regions of the Milky Way galaxy, lines indicate the directions in which particles are moving. (Credit: M. Zemp)
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