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		<title>&#8220;No prob&#8221; sez life to crashing asteroids!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "late heavy bombardment" burned out any life that was around 4 billion years ago -- or not... Plenty of high temperature bacteria could have survived in deep rocks, says a new study.]]></description>
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		<title>Year of astronomy: More reasons to love stars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[400 years ago, Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter. We discover water from 11 billion years ago, volcanoes at Titan, a moon of Saturn, and good reasons to shun light pollution.]]></description>
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		<title>Tales from the solar system: Voyagers told &#8216;em best!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Long Goodbye: 30 years after blast-off, two Voyager spaceships have reached the edge of the solar system. Meet the missions that revolutionized the study of planets and moons.]]></description>
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		<title>What we did on our summer vacation: Visit Mars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a boom time for studying Mars, and the perfect time for the be-all, end-all summer vacation. Ride a robot rover. Dune-buggy an unearthly dune field. Even meet-and-greet a real live Martian! All aboard for Mars!]]></description>
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		<title>Super View of Supernova</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 20 years, star explosion reveals more secrets. What gives in these giant bangs?
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		<title>Star-Burst Fills Empty Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where did all the dust come from? If you are interested in the origin of planets and human beings, here's evidence that a star explosion made mucho dust.]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Conundrum: Is this a Planet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing count: New study finds object larger than Pluto in the distant solar system. Do we now have 10 planets -- or 8?]]></description>
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		<title>A Bar in the Galaxy! Milky Way&#8217;s secret spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you know the Milky Way, our home galaxy? Think again. There's a large bar at the center, and it's open for business. It might even be feeding a black hole... Meet the newest galactic doo-dad...]]></description>
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		<title>Amateur Astronomy: Big Contribution</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amateur astronomers watch variable stars, asteroids, comets -- helping create a better picture of the universe.]]></description>
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		<title>Saturn&#8217;s Ring Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why don't the rings of Saturn just disappear over millions of years. It's the recycling, that's why!]]></description>
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