The three major airports in the New York metropolitan area all reopened by 6 PM. This is great news as they had been closed for a while, preventing a lot of travel from happening, in addition to all of the regular commuters being stuck where they were. There’s still some problems for the tens...
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Northeast Blizzard Causes Travel Delays for Thousands of Americans
Poinsettia Bowl at the Qualcomm Stadium Will Go On as Planned
There has been a very large amount of rain in California causing widespread flooding and scattered mudslides. It’s been raining for seven straight days, however, now the sun is finally out over the Qualcomm Stadium football field. The Poinsettia Bowl was scheduled for tonight, however, for a while it seemed like it wouldn’t be...
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Google’s Nexus S Android Phone Goes to Space
iPhones may be very popular, however, as of today, Google’s Android has been in space. Google wished to do something special for the launch of the new Nexus S. They decided to literally launch it. They got the phone, or actually, 7 phones, up in space by means of weather balloons. Google employees constructed...
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New African Elephant Species Discovered
Recently, scientists have discovered a new species of elephant. It’s not an entirely new discovery as we’ve seen them around, however, the discovery that it’s a different species is quite new information. On Tuesday a paper was published in the PLoS Biology scientific journal that shows that African elephants are two species that separated...
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Lunar Eclipse Tonight for North America
There will be a complete lunar eclipse tonight. It will be visible across North America. It will be just in time for the longest night of the year. This year will be the first time since 1638 that a lunar eclipse has fallen on the winter solstice. The lunar eclipse will be caused by...
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Zoom in onto the Stellar Black Hole in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 300
Recently Scientists discovered a stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. With a mass of twenty times the Sun it is rather large. The astronomers have confirmed, that the black hole is attracting matter from another star. The other star is a Wolf–Rayet, which loses mass rapidly by means of a very...
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HIP 13044 B – A Giant Planet From Another Galaxy
Astronomers have spotted an new planet, called HIP 13044 B, which has somehow made its way into our Galaxy. The strange planet has been discovered by scientists with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla telescope in Chile. The new planet is orbiting a decaying star at the edge of the Milky...
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Leonid Meteor Shower November 2010 Live Video/Audio Feed
Here you can Watch the Leonid Meteor Shower Live Video/Audio Feed This live video/audio feed is from the Nasa camera mounted NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. It’s light-activated, so it will become active at dark. You can also hear the meteors passing by. Video clips at UstreamThe Leonid meteor showers have...
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International Space Station Spacewalk Live on NASA TV Monday
Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Monday, Nov. 15, to prepare the outpost for future assembly work. The spacewalk will be broadcast live on NASA Television beginning at 8 a.m. CST, Nov. 15. During the six-hour spacewalk, Expedition 25 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka will work...
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Remnant of Supersized Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy Detected
Recently the NASA has detected a huge structure in the center of the Milky Way. Scientists think it might be the remnant of an eruption from a super-sized black hole at the center of our galaxy. “What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,”...
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