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HGC 87 - A Small Group of Galaxies
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The galaxies of HGC 87 will slowly self-destruct.  They are gravitationally stretching each other during their 100-million year orbits around a common center.
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Backwards Spiral Galaxy NGC 4622


The Hubble Gallery

Spaced Penguin

Newton and Kepler would
have loved this game.


"The Flight of Helios"
 

Physics Club - Sep. 3, 2009
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Beautiful Aurora in 2001
Sep. 25   Oct. 1   Oct. 21   Oct. 28   Nov. 5   Nov. 24

Photo taken by Dave Renneke

Comet LINEAR A2

This photo was taken in the Augustana Observatory on July 6, 2001 at 3:52 am. Here is the photo gallery maintained by Spaceweather.com.

A New Family of Magnetic Molecules

Researchers mixed organic nitrogen-rich compounds with nickel atoms and water.

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Comet Ikeya-Zhang.  Taken on Apr. 4, 2002 by Gerald Rhemann of Austria.


2001 Leonids photo gallery
Nanotube peapods



A Force from Empty Space:
The Casimir Effect
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 News from Argonne National Laboratory:  Microelectronic nose detects and recognizes gases to save lives.

Research highlights from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne.
WMAP Resolves the Universe

Dark energy |  SNAP
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A Supernova Sheds
Light on Dark Energy.