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Today Is the Day of the Doctor
An Inescapable Error
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
12 Cool Facts about Comet ISON
Take a Ride with Me on Desert Bus. For the Children!
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Berth of a Notion
Stargate: Galaxy
Solar Power Line
MAVEN Go for Launch Today
Comet ISON Is (So Far) Living up to the Hype
Raptorday
A New Look at an Old, Old Star City
A Triplet of Interviews
Kevin Trudeau: Quackery Promoter Jailed for Contempt
Nerd Disses Now on Amazon and Smashwords!
The Last Moments for GOCE
UPDATE: Supertyphoons and Global Warming
Glorious Saturn. And You, Too.
A Chorus of Voices Praises A Pale Blue Dot
The Supertyphoon and the Warming Globe
Expedition 37 Returns to Earth After Five Months In Orbit
Two Moons, Five Moons, A Trillion Moons
GOCE Satellite Hours Away from Falling to Earth
Doctors… Who?
A WISE and Dusty Witch Head
Confused Asteroid Sprouts Tails… Six of Them!
Super Typhoon Haiyan About to Slam into the Philippines
Video of the Large Chunk of Chelyabinsk Asteroid Hitting a Frozen Lake!
Astrophoto: The Moon and Venus, Sitting in a Tree
Good News, Everyone: Asteroid 2013 TV135 No Longer a Threat
Chelyabinsk-sized Asteroid Impacts May Happen More Often Than Previously Thought
Albert Einstein Burns up in Re-Entry
Two More Eclipse Pictures, Because Holy Wow
No, We Are NOT in a Climate “Pause”
The Sky May Be Filled with Earth-like Planets
Puppet Master
A Solar Eclipse, From Heaven and Earth
Arizona Science and Astronomy Expo: Tucson, Nov. 16 and 17
Telescopes as Time Machines
The Most Active Volcano You’ve Never Heard Of
A Cascading Slice of Martian History
The Screaming Demon in an Icelandic Nightmare
Exoplanet Is Earth’s Burned-Out Molten Twin
The Ghosts of Distant Stars. Literally. Well, Figuratively.
Dream Chaser Spaceplane Test Flight Goes Perfectly...With One Small Exception
Flying Over Mars
Death Blossom
UPDATE: Boulder and Vaccines
Spooky Australian Salt Lake Wishes You a Happy Halloween
10 Failed Climate Change Denial Arguments
Saharan Star Dunes
The Sun Blasts Out a Pair of X-Class Flares
How Does This Picture of the Moon Know When You’re Looking at It?
Towering Solar Eruption Leaves Behind Twisted Chaos
Why Is the Chance of an Asteroid Impact in 2032 Going Up? [Don’t Panic!]
Happy Mole Day!
Good Morning Moon Part 2
Good Morning, Moon Part 1
Three Illusions That Will Destroy Your Brain
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
Comet ISON: Still Alive
No, the Earth (Almost Certainly) Won’t Get Hit by an Asteroid in 2032
Huge Chunk of Russian Meteorite Found at the Bottom of a Lake
Saturn As You’ve Never Seen It Before
“Thank You, Doctor. And Now, for the Opposing View, Here’s Joe Camel.”
Pertussis and Influenza Hit Home for Me
Fall 40 Kilometers to Earth in a POV Video from Felix Baumgartner's Helmetcam
Future, We Are In You
Astrophoto: The Beacon and the Spiral
Juno Spacecraft Shaves the Earth on Its Way to Jupiter
No, This Isn’t a Movie: Russian Missile Lights Up Space Station’s Sky
What the Heck Is Comet ISON Doing?
Scott Carpenter, 1925 - 2013
An Open Letter to the Editors of the Los Angeles Times
That’s One Impressive Moth-er Faker
The Purloined Lunar Crater
SXSW Eco: Climate Change Panel
Higgs!
Uranus Hangs a Moon. Five, in Fact.
Asteroid xkcd
The Smoky Trail of a Russian Asteroid Impact Seen From Space
Time-Lapse Video: Aurora Over Sweden
Making Contact with the Very Large Array
Remember the 13th? Why?
Bad Astronomy Movie Review: Gravity
History Repeats Itself, and NASA Bears the Brunt of It
Ancient Mars Was a Blast: Scientists Find Evidence of Martian Supervolcanoes
By Odin’s Beard! Natalie Portman and Thor Inspire Girls to Study Science
Announcing Space Ranch 2014
NASA Is Grounded
Why Is Vesta Groovy?
The World’s Newest Island
Climate Change: It’s Real, and It’s Us
A Beautiful and Deadly Island Volcano From Space
Astrophoto: The Arch of the Galaxy
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Pertussis Slayer
And Then There Were Six: Soyuz Launches Three Astronauts to ISS
A Saturn Moon Erupts
The Climate Change Denial Machine Is Going Up to 11
Going Up, Going Down: Skydiving into a Rocket Launch
The Autumnal Equinox … FROM SPACE!
The Celestial Fog Comes on Little Cat Feet
Should Public School Students Get Mandatory Vaccines?
The Comet That Dreamt It Was an Asteroid. And Vice-Versa.
As Climate Change Report Draws Near, Deniers Raise Voices, Bury Heads Deeper
Epic Comet Mission Fades to Black
Taking an X-Ray of an Eclipse
A Collision in Saturn’s Rings
What's Really Going On With Arctic Sea Ice?
Has Alien Life Been Found in Earth’s Atmosphere? I’m Gonna Go With
“No.”
I Told You So: Congressman Parrots Climate Change Denial Errors
Astrophotos Galore: 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards
Antares Launch in Infrared
UPDATE: Despite Doubling Down, Climate Change Article Still Very Misleading
How to Watch Today's Antares Rocket Launch Scheduled for 10:50 EDT
Two Extraordinary Views of Saturn
Why Debunk Climate Change Deniers?
Japan Lashed by Typhoon Man-yi
Another Week, Another Climate Change Denial Article in The Mail
Power of Multiple Amateur Telescopes, UNITE!
Straining Upwards to Hear the Cosmos
Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space. But Has It Left the Solar System? Wellllll…
Boulder Is Flooding
Want to Score Some Free Tickets to the Boulder Science Festival?
Creationists Once Again Threaten to Make a Mockery of Texas Science Education
Expedition 36 Returns Safely To Earth in a Cushion of Fire
Time-Lapse Video: “Adrift”
Attack of the Space Rocks
No, the World Isn't Cooling
UPDATE: Fake TV Ads, Pixels, and Parallax
Space Travel Takes Atoll
Is This Asteroid Apocalypse Viral TV Ad Fact or Fake?
LADEE to the Moon!
Houston, We Have a Parking Problem
The Oncoming Storm
Boulder Science Fest Update: Lower Admission, More Stuff
When the Dying Breaths of Ancient Stars Align
Cnidareidolia: Jellyfish Nebula
“But I Play One On TV”: Dragon Con Panel with Adam Savage
Astrophoto: Psychedelic Southern Skies
Reality TV Gets One Right: Shark Tank Calls Out Quackery
Mars Australis
Southern Skies, Smiling at Me
I Heard It Rains Down in Mars
Climate Change: Rare Medium Is Well-Done
Astrophoto: Flames of the Milky Way
A Gorgeous Video of a Devastating Fire
Symphony of Science: Black Holes
A Perfect(ly Named) Storm
UPDATE: California Rim Fire from Space
Red Rock, Black Spider, Blue Moon
California Burning
My Dragon*Con 2013 Schedule
Anti-Vaccine Megachurch Linked to Texas Measles Outbreak
Spitzer Space Telescope: 10 Years in Space
How to Ram a Planet
E.T. Flies in Front of the Moon Once Again
WISE Rises From Its Ashes
No, Mars Won’t Be as Big as the Moon. Ever.
… and the Earth Waved to Saturn.
Twin Baby Stars Belch Into Their Mama’s Face
A Boiling Lava Planet With an Eight-Hour Year
Rippling Noctilucent Clouds Eerily Glow With an Aurora
Oz Struck
Is Pluto a Planet? That’s a Rap.
Warped Moons Flirt with Each Other
OooooWWWWEEEEEOOOOooo to Joy
A Greenly Glowing Football in Space
Staying Ahead of the Flood
Astronomers Peek Inside the Nursery of a Monster Star
Gorgeous Canary Island Observatory Time-Lapse Video
George Shultz: A Republican Who Accepts the Reality of Global Warming
Australian Weather Forecast: Desert, With a Chance of White Wispy Beautiful
Clouds
Are the Stars You See in the Sky Already Dead?
Good Night, Boulder
The Galaxy and the Supervolcano
When Planets Attack
A Year’s Worth of Days
Catch the Falling Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower 2013
Why Do Astronauts Appear Weightless in Space?
Denying Climate Change Is Bad for Your Electoral Health
Has the Chelyabinsk Meteor Parent Asteroid Been Found?
Australian Time-Lapse Makes Me Want to Stand on My Head
Millions of Tons of Gas Hangs Over Our Star
Science Rocks in Boulder!
Xkcd and "Time"
Happy First Anniversary, Curiosity!
Global Warming Denial Is Science-Proof
Sunrise, Moonrise, Planetrise, As Seen from Space
Predators and Prey, Dragons and Dark Skies
Illusions of Dune
A Climate Change Op-Ed That Makes Sense. Finally.
Today’s Google Doodle: Maria Mitchell
The Heartbeat of an Exploded Star
Telescopes Use X-Ray Vision to See an Alien Planet Shadow
Oi! I’m Going to Australia! Soon!
Astronaut Describes Terrifying Spacesuit Problem That Cut Short a Spacewalk
The Familiarity of a Crescent Moon
A Jupiter Cakewalk
Ice Crystals Put on a Show in the Sky
Another Congressional Attack on Climate Science?
An Impact Melt Crater You'll Flip For
Around Saturn
The Gravity of the Situation
Mars Probe Sees Other Mars Probe on Mars
Opening the Skies to Everyone
Geeking Out Over San Diego Comic-Con 2013
The Price of Defame
A Cosmos Reborn
A Glimpse of Earth, Shining Brightly, From Very, Very Far Away
Cloak and Veil of Stars
When a Canary Wakes
Astrophoto: Venus Rises in the Ashes of Comets
The Secret Project Revealed: “2^7 Nerd Disses: A Significant Quantity of
Disrespect”
Apollo 11 and a Quarter Million Miles
Tricky Astrophoto: Is It Day or Night?
The Firefox Nebula
The Haunting Melody of Global Warming
Look Up, Smile, and Wave … at Saturn
Comet ISON Among the Sparkling Stars
Bill Nye Teaches “Climate 101”
Neptune Gets Another Moon
The View Hires Notorious Anti-Vaxxer Jenny McCarthy
My Comic Con Panels
The Hummingbird Galaxy
A Stormy View from Space
Songs of Science
Watch a Levitating Magnet Sail Around a Möbius Strip!
The Deep Blue Color of an Alien World
New Horizons Gets a First Glimpse of Pluto’s Moon Charon
FOLLOW-UP: Wall Street Journal Doubles Down on Global Warming Denial
La Petite Aurore
An Ultraviolet Galaxy Hunter Closes Its Eye
The View of Jenny McCarthy
All the Nomz: A Geeky Cookbook for Charity
The Newest New Moon
Dragon*Con Star Party 2013
You’re Getting Warmer: Another Wall Street Journal Global Warming Article
Misses the Target
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Sums Up the Witch Hunt Against Him
Precision Jump for the Grasshopper
Happy Aphelion 2013!
How to—Literally—Help Save the World from Asteroid Impacts
Happy Birthday, America!
The Lion’s Share of Galaxies
Russian Rocket Crashes and Explodes After Takeoff
Pluto Has Moons From Hell
Time Lapse: Arctic Lightscapes
A Perfect Volcanic Island and Plume
Wall Eye Dolia
The Making of a Monster, Caught by Accident
Time-Lapse: Everest
Meteoreidolia
The Flaming Skull Nebula. Seriously.
Astrophoto: Bungling the Milky Way
A Face-On Blast From the Past
Mercury’s Limb
Baby Stars Blast Gas out of Both Ends
Gigapixel Mars
“I Took Pictures of Two Galaxies!” He Said Swiftly
Bill Nye: Crusader for Science!
A Chinese Palace Crosses the Sun
Supermoonset
A Moment of Time-Lapse
A Crater Seen from Space…But Which Is It?
HPV Vaccine Is Working. Again.
Happy Summer Solstice 2013!
A Clear View of Alaska—and Maybe Our Future
Moon of Steel: Supermoon Returns
Announcing the Boulder Science Festival 2013!
Webcam Catches the Popocatépetl Volcano Blowing Its Stack
Look at Saturn and Say Cheese!
The Cosmic Ray Show
Draft NASA Bill Defunds Asteroid Mission, Restores Education
Miss Utah, Science, and Me
How Do You Hide a Whole Supernova?
Heartland Institute Embarrasses Itself Again
Winged Tenants, Wanted and Unwanted
Cosmoquest Hangout-a-thon
Time-Lapse Video: The Magnificent Power of a Supercell
Colorado Is on Fire. Again.
Follow-Up: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vaccines
Time-Lapse: The Rise of the Milky Way
A Win for Science in Kansas
Ho-Hum, Just Another Gorgeous Spiral Galaxy
A Swirly Lava Pool on the Moon
Slaying the Zombie Ideas of Climate Change Denial
Forensic Astronomy: The Gorgeous Corpse of a Dead Star
Time-Lapse Video: Horizons
The Scar of a Deadly Tornado
Martian Rock 'n' Roll
The Trek Continues
Albert Einstein Now in Space
Time-Lapse: “Existence”
Our Galaxy Just Got a Little More Interesting
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Anti-Vaxxer
Without Warning: Time Lapse of a Pink Aurora, With a Bonus
In Case You Miss Chris Hadfield …
Top of Another World to Ya!
Snapshot of Lowest Mass Exoplanet Ever Directly Seen (Probably)
Asteroid Masquerades as a Comet With a Million-Kilometer-Long Tail
The Sun Is a Rotten Orange
The Full Moon in Exquisite Detail
Stunning Pink Aurora Over Crater Lake
Prince Rupert’s Drops. Exploding.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 Has a Moon!
Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Safely Pass Earth Tomorrow
Wine Cork Magic Trick
Asteroid Mining Company Kickstarts a Space Telescope
“Amateur” Digs Deep—Very Deep—Into an Active Galaxy
The 17-Year Itch
The Arctic Ice “Death Spiral”
Three Planets Dance in the West After Sunset
A Sunset of Considerable Beauty
Moonrise From Space
Impact: Moon!
The Beautiful Death of the Sun’s Big Brother
Global Warming Firehose
“Bad Astronomy” on the Front Page of Wikipedia Today. Literally.
Drooling over Pictures of Pavlof Volcano from Space
VLT’s Birthday Gift to Us: Ephemeral Silhouettes on a Pink Curtain
Missile Launch Creates Weird Expanding Light Bubble in the Sky
UPDATE: Canadian Research Agency Still Selling Out Science
Spacefest: Astronauts, Artists, and Astronomers Assemble in Arizona
Europa Report Trailer, By Jove
The Violent Oklahoma Weather, From Far Above
Galaxies Are Weird and Weirdly Beautiful
SciFund Challenge: Why Do Science Outreach?
Lunar Hook Shot
BA Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and
Our Fault
The Top 6 Star Trek Science Mistakes
Kepler Planet-Finding Mission in Jeopardy
Time-Lapse Video: The Rising Slow-Motion Dance of the Eclipsed Sun and Moon
The Tracks of Ships Are Written in the Sky
Sun Erupts in First X-class Flares of 2013
Stunning Picture of the Milky Way…Over Los Angeles?
Canada Sells Out Science
Top 15 Pictures From Astronaut Chris Hadfield on the International Space
Station
(A Real) Space Oddity
Teasing Gravity
Spectacular Satellite Re-Entry Caught on Video
400
Coolant Leak on Space Station May Delay Return of Astronauts to Earth
No Need to Worry About Global Warming, Folks: More Carbon Dioxide Will Be
Awesome
Squishy Eclipse
The Beauty of Reality
Give Me An “F”! Creationists Fail a Fourth Grade Science Test
Ring of Fire Over Australia
Genie Scott Retires
A Different Angle on the Sun
Spock vs. Spock
The Remains of Halley’s Comet Burn and Linger in the Sky
The Quietly Raging Sun
The Heat and Light of an Active Volcano
A Quick Note About Vaccinations
Beautiful Time-Lapse Earth
Have Tunguska Meteorites Been Found? I Have My Doubts
Louisiana State Senate: We <3 Creationism
Twisting Solar Eruption
Collision Course! How A Cold War SpySat Nearly Took Out a NASA Observatory
A Microscopic Bloom from Space
Lord of All I Survey
Aftermath of a Colossal Cosmic Collision
Why is Our Government Attacking Science?
Death Valley DreamLapse
Man in (Front of) the Moon
TWiST for the Week of April 26, 2013
Virgin Galactic Successfully Tests SpaceShipTwo in Powered Flight
Pertussis Can Kill
The Glowering Red Eye of A Saturn Hurricane
The Herschel Mission Closes Its Eye
Maker of Useless Dowsing Rod for Bombs Convicted for Fraud
Analemma!
Climate Change or Global Warming? Both.
Measles Epidemic in Wales Has Roots in Antivax Movement
Saturn-lit Moon
What’s the Opposite of Progress?
Cassini Sees Debris from Meteoroids Colliding with Saturn’s Rings
Three Years of the Sun in Three Minutes
Scientists in Antarctica Find Invading Neutrinos from Another Galaxy!
Betelgeuse Blows Out a Monstrous Arc of Gas Nearly As Big As Our Solar System
Curiosity Rover Takes a Sharp 3D Picture of Mars
Hubble Spies A Surprisingly Active Comet ISON
A Hundred Billion Star Trails Over Australia
Can Floating Cities Really Exist?
What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth in Space?
Futurama Canceled Again. Again.
Noodling Google’s Doodle
15 Facts About Our Planet for Earth Day
The Impact of Space Travel
HPV Vaccine in Australia Already Appears to Be Working
Hubble's Knight to Remember
When Supermassive Supergiants Go Superboom
New Discovery: An Alien Solar System With Two Earth-Sized Worlds
Take a Moment to Breathe
Galaxy at the Edge of the Universe Really Likes Making Stars
Baptist Pastor: Don’t Teach Religion in Public Schools!
Antares Go For Launch
UPDATE: Comet Will Come Close but Most Likely Miss Mars Next Year