Apocalypse not? Despite doomsayers, Mayans say 2012 isn’t the end of the world as we know itMEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world. For next apocalypse, doomsayers turn to Mayan calendar and year 2012MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world. Just repaired Hubble unveils its handiwork: Photos of beauty, life and death on galactic scaleWASHINGTON — A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows. NASA on Wednesday unveiled the first deep space photos taken by Hubble since its billion dollar repair mission last spring. That work included installing two new cameras, other science instruments and replacing broken parts. Astronomers prove next door galaxy Andromeda is cannibal by finding ‘partly digested remains’WASHINGTON — Our nearest major galactic neighbor is a cosmic cannibal. And it’s heading this way eventually. Raging wildfire threatens historic Mount Wilson Observatory and communication towersLOS ANGELES — Mount Wilson opened the heavens and then became a modern hub for communications on Earth. Now it is threatened by a force of nature that humans may be powerless to control. Weird space blobs turn out to be adolescent galaxies throwing final tantrum before growing upWASHINGTON — Mysterious space blobs aren’t infant galaxies as astronomers once thought. Scientists say they mostly consist of galaxies going through puberty, all hot and bothered. Hubble telescope, Earth’s once-blurry but now brilliant spy on the universe, gets a final fixWASHINGTON — Using the power of pictures, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped away at the mystery of the universe. The Blob: Astronomers marvel over mysterious giant object from nearly 13 billion years agoWASHINGTON — A strange giant space “blob” spotted when the universe was relatively young has got astronomers puzzled. Using space and ground telescopes, astronomers looked back to when the universe was only 800 million years old and found something that was out of proportion and out of time. |
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