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• Dying star illuminates distant galaxy, lifting veil of interstellar darkness for astronomers

  30 August 2012

  

   

• Planetary system orbiting two suns discovered by astronomers

  30 August 2012

  

   

• Mississippi State borrows grasshopper collection from Smithsonian

  22 August 2012

  

   

• Crayola Crayons, 1903

  20 August 2012

  

   

• “Ignition Sequence,” by Vincent Cavallaro

  17 August 2012

  

   

• Fossil pollen used to augment climate record of Egypt’s Nile Delta

  16 August 2012

  

   

• Recreating a slice of the universe

  15 August 2012

  

   

• Largest ever 3D map of the sky released by astronomers

  9 August 2012

  

   

• A bubbling cauldron of star birth

  3 August 2012

  

   

• Female spiders produce mating plugs to prevent unwanted sex from males

  2 August 2012