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      “Singing Stars” Reveal Their Secrets, and More – The Countdown, Episode 29

      More to explore: Curiosity Catches Sight of Mars’ Moon Passing the Other (PsiVid) Latest SpaceX Rocket Test Successfully Goes Sideways (New York Times) Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites: Reaching Out for Worldwide Recognitionwith the Help of the IAU [Pdf] (IAU) Around the World in Four Days: NASA Tracks Chelyabinsk Meteor Plume (NASA) Russian [...]

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      Curiosity Catches Sight of Mars' Moon Passing the Other (PsiVid)

      Latest SpaceX Rocket Test Successfully Goes Sideways (New York Times)

      Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites: Reaching Out for Worldwide

      Recognitionwith the Help of the IAU [Pdf] (IAU)

      Around the World in Four Days: NASA Tracks Chelyabinsk Meteor Plume (NASA)

      Russian Meteor Might Have Siblings in Tow (Scientific American)

      An observational correlation between stellar brightness variations and surface gravity [Preview] (Nature)

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      Singing Stars (Nature Video)

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