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		<title>Future of Kepler and Planet Hunting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After news of a malfunctioning rotation wheel that helps point NASA&#8217;s planet hunting spacecraft Kepler last week, astronomers are bittersweet about what the future holds.  But while so many space pundits are chatting up a storm on the web about what may or may not happen, the Chief Scientist on Kepler is very hopeful and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Night Sky Photos of the Year</title>
		<link>http://www.thenightskyguy.com/?p=3870</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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The Fourth International Earth and Sky Photo Contest announced it&#8217;s winner this past week.  Founded by TWAN and the Dark Skies Awareness project, the annual contest invites photographers to submit their best  shots of landscape astrophotography—pictures that showcase both the  Earth and the sky—as well as images that capture the battle against light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Shots of May’s Solar Eclipse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first total eclipse of the sun occurred earlier this month in Australia and stunned skywatchers. A solar eclipse occurs when the Earth, moon, and sun line up so that the moon&#8217;s shadow is cast on the Earth.  A total solar eclipse occurs when the sun&#8217;s entire disk is covered by the moon. During an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hubble Spies a Cosmic Bauble</title>
		<link>http://www.thenightskyguy.com/?p=3860</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 19:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an amazing  image of a supernova remnant-  dubbed SNR 0519-  located in one of the  Milky Way&#8217;s small satellite galaxies  150,000 light years from Earth.
Wispy  shells of blood-red colored gas filaments appears to float peacefully  in space however it marks the site of a cataclysmic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower This Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have clear skies early this Saturday (May 4) night through Monday (May 6)  morning, watch for a minor meteor shower with a famous pedigree.
Known as the Eta Aquarids, this annual shooting-star show is  set to peak in the predawn hours of May 5, with rates of 10 to  40 meteors an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Closeup Pic of Comet ISON</title>
		<link>http://www.thenightskyguy.com/?p=3852</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hubble has taken its first close-up views of the much anticipated and  potential ‘comet of the century’. On the night of April 10th, the space telescope snapped an image in visible light of Comet ISON while it was still at a whopping  distance of 394 million miles from Earth (386 million miles from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wow! Horsehead Nebula Seen Like Never Before</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of its launch 23 years ago the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a breathtaking, never-before-seen view of one of the most photogenic cosmic vistas in the night sky.

Dubbed the Horsehead nebula because of its obvious resemblance to a  steed or chess piece in profile,  this dark cloud of gas and dust sits  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyrid Meteor Shower Viewing Conditions</title>
		<link>http://www.thenightskyguy.com/?p=3839</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on the latest weather forecast models here are the expected weather conditions across the north American continent for Sunday night into the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, April 22nd.

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		<title>Video: Weekly Space News Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.thenightskyguy.com/?p=3834</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out some of the cool space news hitting the wire this past week on my weekly CTV News Channel interview.

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		<title>Ancient Star Factory Breaks Records</title>
		<link>http://www.thenightskyguy.com/?p=3824</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newfound primordial galaxy nearly 13 billion light-years away is breaking distance records and may  unlock the secrets of how and when some of the most massive star  factories were born in the early universe, according to a new study.
Using the infrared mapping capabilities of the European Space Agency&#8217;s Herschel space telescope,  [...]]]></description>
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