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8 Modern Astronomy Mysteries Scientists Still Can’t Explain
Image: This artist’s impression shows galaxies at a time less than a billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe was still partially filled with hydrogen fog that absorbed ultraviolet light. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
The vastness of space and the puzzling nature of the cosmic objects that occupy it provides no shortage of material for astronomers to ponder.
To round up some of the most enduring mysteries in the field of astronomy, the journal Science enlisted help from science writers and members of the Board of Reviewing Editors to choose eight puzzling questions being asked by leading astronomers today.
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Iceberg in Argentina gives spectators a rare show!
The iceberg flipped over in Argentina while people captured the event on their cameras. Here’s what the author says about the event under her Youtube video:
osibaruch writes:“This Iceberg was “calved” by Argentina’s Uppsala glacier. While we were passing by it with a catamaran, the huge berg lost a part of itself (look at the right side sinking) and then flipped over with a huge roar. In the process of melting this happens all the time, but it is seldom that it is captured on video WHEN it happens…”
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Arizona Collage
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June 5th Transit of Venus Offers Last-Chance Views
Look skyward, space-lovers: Tuesday, June 5 is the last chance in your lifetime to see the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.
Venus won’t visibly pass between the Earth and the sun again until 2117.
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Johan Santana pitches the first no-hitter in New York Mets history - June 1st, 2012 - New York Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals
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56 years of tornado tracks, visualized.
Beautiful destruction.
Did you see Dear World’s tribute to the Joplin tornado victims? It’s touching stuff.
