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  Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

  Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of debate among physicists over Einstein's special theory of ...

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  World's fastest supercomputer models the unseen universe | DVICE

  It's hard to tell what the universe looks like, especially since it takes billions of years for the light from most of it to reach us. It's even more difficult to visualize the 70% of the matter in the universe that's invisible. That's why scientists bring out the heavy iron, IBM Roadrunner, ...

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  SPACE.com -- 3,000 Images Combine for Stunning Milky Way Portrait

  3,000 Images Combine for Stunning Milky Way Portrait A new panoramic image of the full night sky — with the Milky Way as its centerpiece — has been made by piecing together 3,000 individual photographs. The panorama's creator, Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University, spent 22 months ...

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  APOD: 2009 October 25 -M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble

  Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 October 25 M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble Credit: NASA , ESA , J. Hester, A. Loll ( ...

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  Mystery Space "Ribbon" Found at Solar System's Edge

  Mystery Space "Ribbon" Found at Solar System's Edge October 15, 2009 Stevie Wonder may have been on to something when he sang about a ribbon in the sky . In a discovery that took astronomers by surprise, the first full-sky map of the solar system 's edge—more than 9 billion miles (15 ...

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